Monday, October 4, 2010

Tabkit : A Useful Firefox plugin

Hello Everyone,
I am here again to ease your problems by a bit here. Most of the time we find ourselves in a position where we need to access a lot of tabs simultaneously while submitting assignments or playing cache-in etc. To keep track of tabs and similar information is really a pain. We have to find the tab linearly by clicking navigations as mentioned in the picture.



There are many useful plugins which might help. Tabkit is one among them. Tab Kit makes tabs more efficient for power users, allowing a wide variety of tweaks, all of which are optional.

It groups tab on the basis of domain names. For eg. you want all the facebook links to be together. You can see tabs as a tree structure. If you want to see tabs in multiple rows then this is the best plugin.

It sort tabs, by address, last loaded, last viewed, order of creation, origin or title. Tabkit also highlight unread tabs and emphasizes current tab. The plugin controls new tab position.

Tab kit can be downloaded from here.

Here are some screen shots.





You can edit and modify the properties by
Tools -> Addons -> Extensions -> Tabkit -> Prefernces

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Configure pidgin in Ubuntu for Gtalk

To configure pidgin in Ubuntu :

Step 1 : Go to Applications -> Internet -> Pidgin Internet Messenger

Step 2 : Now manage your accounts by opening the window from Accounts -> Manage Acounts

Step 3 : Now Click Add to add a new account

Step 4 : For Gtalk set the following settings

Protocol : XMPP
Username : your-gtalk/gmail-username
Domain : gmail.com
Resource : Home
Password : your-password



Step 5 : Now in Advanced Tab
Check Force old (port 5223) SSL

Connect port : 443
Connect Server : talk.google.com
File Transfer Proxies : proxy.eu.jabber.org



Step 6 : Finally, Click Save and you are done.

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Enable 3D Cube effects in Ubuntu 10.04

To enable 3d Cube effects in Ubuntu 10.04, its very easy just follow the following steps :-

1. Go to System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager .

2. Go to the search bar at the Right Top of the Synaptic Package Manager.

3. Search for the Keyword ” Compiz "



4. Mark and apply changes.

5. Finally, System > Preferences > CompizConfig Setting Manager



6. Enjoy by rotating cube by Ctrl + Alt + ( arrow keys or left mouse clicking & dragging).