Planet Ajay http://ajaydsouza.net/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron me@ajaydsouza.com Sausages... yummy :) http://ajaydsouza.net/items/view/2299 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:56:00 -0700 http://twitter.com/ajaydsouza/statuses/10429438977 Cooking sausages ... http://ajaydsouza.net/items/view/2300 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:45:00 -0700 http://twitter.com/ajaydsouza/statuses/10426629043 3 Great Start Pages To Serve A Unique Purpose <a href="http://bit.ly/d91HyH" rel="external">http://bit.ly/d91HyH</a> http://ajaydsouza.net/items/view/2298 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:38:00 -0700 http://twitter.com/ajaydsouza/statuses/10420129923 3 Great Start Pages To Serve A Unique Purpose http://ajaydsouza.net/items/view/2297 A great startpage can save us a lot of time. By providing us simple access to the links we frequent most, a good startpage helps us get things done faster and more efficiently. Below you will find my gathered list of 3 unique startpages each of which serves a unique purpose. If you are looking for a startpage to enhance your browsing experience, read about each entry in the list and check out which one suits your preferences and needs. Schoolr

Schoolr is the dream-startpage for students. The simple layout is basic and comprehensive at the same time. It is basic because it only involves straightforward text fields. And it is comprehensive because it provides links to various types of searches such Google, pictures, Wikipedia, a dictionary and thesaurus, and Wolfram (a great mathematics tools). For a student, this startpage offers all necessary links related to studies. Fav4

Fav4 is a startpage that strives to get rid of the clutter which most startpages experience. We can use only four shortcuts on Fav4. These shortcuts can be selected from Fav4’s huge library which mostly comprises of the most popular websites on the internet. With the absence of online ads, its minimalistic feel is something that will appeal to many internet users. HomePageStartup

HomePage Startup is a quite a comprehensive startpage and normally what most internet users opt for. Not only can we add our custom bookmarks and their titles, but we can also drag them around to reorder them. We can create a username on the website so that our startpage goes with us wherever we can access the internet. – Those were 3 startpages which I considered unique enough to put into a singular list post. If you can think of any other startpages that are special in one way or other, do share them with me in the comments. Our Friend: WebberZone Domains - .com, .net, .org, .biz domains at $8.95/yr only! Private Registration FREE! Related Posts:Incredible StartPage Tool for Chrome To Manage BookmarksHow to Personalize Firefox With Custom Themes5 Great Tools for Organizing YourselfFind Websites/Articles/Links According to Your TastesHow To Get Fast Access To Google Services In ChromePowered by Contextual Related Posts Tags: fast access to sites, fast access to social media sites, social media sites, start pages 3 Great Start Pages To Serve A Unique Purpose was first posted on March 13, 2010 at 5:23 pm.© 2006-2009 "Techtites". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact us with the details.Feed enhanced by the Add To Feed Plugin by Ajay D'Souza

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W.A. http://ajaydsouza.net/items/view/2296 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:10:00 -0700 http://twitter.com/ajaydsouza/statuses/10415202803 Incredible StartPage Tool for Chrome To Manage Bookmarks <a href="http://bit.ly/ccc33Q" rel="external">http://bit.ly/ccc33Q</a> http://ajaydsouza.net/items/view/2295 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:39:00 -0700 http://twitter.com/ajaydsouza/statuses/10342777590 Incredible StartPage Tool for Chrome To Manage Bookmarks http://ajaydsouza.net/items/view/2294 I have used many websites that offer startpage services. In case you do not know what a startpage is, it is similar to the Opera internet browser’s Speed Dial. We are offered thumbnails views of the bookmarks we select. The objective is to make our most frequented websites more accessible. For a long time my favorite startpage tool had been Fav4 which is a startpage website. But after I discovered and used Incredible StartPage, I knew that I would never use Fav4 again.

Incredible StartPage is a browser extension for the web browser Google Chrome. This extension lets us set our startpage in a very unique way. Along with having our selected bookmarks on the startpage, we also get our recently closed tabs and notes. Once we install the extension we are shown a page which describes the extension and suggests other Chrome extension by the same developer.

To get started with setting our startpage, we need to open a new tab.

Starting from the top, the yellow notepad lets us take down notes in a font which I like.

After we take down a note, we can even post it to Gmail using the link at the bottom right of the notepad. The CLOSED area shows us our recently closed tabs. Also, if we close a tab by accident, here is where we can recover it from. The box to the right of the CLOSED box lets us browse all our bookmarks.

If we want we can drag bookmarks from here to the main box to our right.

By default this window only has bookmarks from our Bookmarks Toolbar. But we can always add new shortcuts from the BOOKMARKS window in the startpage. Apart from all these features, we can customize the theme of our startpage using the OPTIONS button which is located in the top right of our startpage.

If you are a Chrome user looking for a startpage solution, then do give Incredible StartPage a try. I am sure you will find it as greatly useful as I did. Related Posts:How to Personalize Firefox With Custom ThemesAdd Tabs Preview in Chrome with TabsPreviewHow To Replace Chrome New tab With Your Predefined Visual BookmarksTransfer Bookmarks From One Browser To The NextHow To Get Fast Access To Google Services In ChromePowered by Contextual Related Posts Tags: chrome extension, how to, manage bookmarks, take notes Incredible StartPage Tool for Chrome To Manage Bookmarks was first posted on March 12, 2010 at 3:11 am.© 2006-2009 "Techtites". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact us with the details.Feed enhanced by the Add To Feed Plugin by Ajay D'Souza

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What's up! http://ajaydsouza.net/items/view/2293 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:32:00 -0700 http://twitter.com/ajaydsouza/statuses/10334118093 Tired... http://ajaydsouza.net/items/view/2291 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:46:00 -0700 http://twitter.com/ajaydsouza/statuses/10239311261 How to Personalize Firefox With Custom Themes <a href="http://bit.ly/9tnx6E" rel="external">http://bit.ly/9tnx6E</a> http://ajaydsouza.net/items/view/2290 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:39:00 -0700 http://twitter.com/ajaydsouza/statuses/10184715270 How to Personalize Firefox With Custom Themes http://ajaydsouza.net/items/view/2289 Customizing our internet browser with themes is yet another way to give our computers a personal touch. Two browsers I use most of the time, Firefox and Chrome, both come with their own support for great themes. But recently I came across an add-on for Firefox which let me quickly change from on theme to the next as well as create my own themes. This is add-on is named AnyColor.

AnyColor is an add-on that changes the look of your Firefox browser. You can easily change the appearance of your browser with just a few clicks. There are many themes you can choose from and it is very easy to customize them or create your own. After the add-on is installed you will prompted to restart Firefox after which you will be able to view AnyColor’s startpage.

On this startpage you can choose a color scheme from the pane on the left. You can even choose to enable certain tweaks by checking the boxes in the left. A button lets you add the add-on’s toolbar to Firefox to quickly shift between themes. The toolbar is located in the Main Menu bar and can be accessed to view the available options.

We can access the add-on’s options from here to customize an existing theme or start building an entirely new theme with a new color scheme and a custom background image.

I know I have tried a pretty ugly looking color scheme here but this is just to give you an idea of how you can create your own custom themes by simply playing with the colors.

Having tried out this extension, I found that it integrated into Firefox seamlessly and will be of great use to anybody wanting to be able to customize Firefox better. Try it out and drop off your thoughts in the comments. Related Posts:For Chrome: How To Change The Color Combination of Any WebsiteHow To Minimize FireFox to System TrayAdd Tabs Preview in Chrome with TabsPreviewHow to Preview Thumbnails of Google Search ResultsHow To Replace Chrome New tab With Your Predefined Visual BookmarksPowered by Contextual Related Posts Tags: create firefox custom themes, custom themes, firefox custom themes, how to How to Personalize Firefox With Custom Themes was first posted on March 9, 2010 at 1:06 am.© 2006-2009 "Techtites". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact us with the details.Feed enhanced by the Add To Feed Plugin by Ajay D'Souza

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How to Search For Movie Subtitles The Easy Way <a href="http://bit.ly/ctThYn" rel="external">http://bit.ly/ctThYn</a> http://ajaydsouza.net/items/view/2287 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:38:00 -0700 http://twitter.com/ajaydsouza/statuses/10122101393 How to Search For Movie Subtitles The Easy Way http://ajaydsouza.net/items/view/2286 So you have heard about a wonderful new Korean director and the amazing movies he makes. After hearing all the hype, you decide to download yourself one of his movies. When you press Play, you realize that he movie is in Korean. The problem now is: you don’t speak Korean. Understanding foreign language films is possible only by having the appropriate subtitles with them. But that is not the only scenario in which subtitles can be useful; say you’re watching a movie with a low audio volume or are watching an actor whose mumbling is making it difficult for you to understand the dialogue. In all situations, subtitles are your best friends. So what do you do to get subtitles? You enter the name of the movie (whether it’s the English name or the original name, you find by trial and error) on some subtitles hosting website and then test from a series of subtitles until you find the right one. You need not put yourself this online hit and miss process any longer because now you have Sublight available for download. Sublight is a free desktop application that lets you search for movie subtitles in the most competent way possible. It provides you with two methods of searching for subtitles. Method 1 lets you enter the various details of the video like the title and year. Method 2 requires you to specify the video file and the title and year are found automatically by Sublight.

After choosing either method, you can proceed to search for subtitles and the results will be displayed. There will be an orange bar with the results other users have found successful. The results are shown along with the website they belong to. If you get a lot of results you can narrow them down by filtration; you can specify the language, rate, publisher, and number of discs of the subtitle file by clicking on the Filter Results button:

Results from some sites like Podnapisi can be highlighted; then you can click ‘Play Subtitle with File’ to directly start viewing the video with its subtitles in the media player you specify during installation. Double clicking on subtitles belonging to other sites such as AllSubs, will take you to the host’s page where you will need to download directly. There are even results which take you to the IMDB or OMDB pages of your video file and provide you with more information. You can also access the details of the subtitles file and preview it to check the quality of language in the translation. If the subtitle has these options available, you can access them by right clicking on the result:

In case there your search result doesn’t show up any orange colored subtitles, you might need to try a few ones before you get it right. However it is still less time consuming since you can select a result and directly press Play With Subtitles and instantly see whether or not it’s a match. If you download movies regularly, Sublight is one freeware application you simply can’t afford to miss out on. Our Friend: WebberZone Domains - .com, .net, .org, .biz domains at $8.95/yr only! Private Registration FREE! Related Posts:5+1 ways to get Subtitles for your MoviesAVIAddXSubs (Multimedia Monday)Best HD Video Players for MacHow to Preview Thumbnails of Google Search ResultsStay In Touch With The Latest Movie Trailers And Information in ChromePowered by Contextual Related Posts Tags: how to, how to search for movie titles, movie titles, search movie titles How to Search For Movie Subtitles The Easy Way was first posted on March 7, 2010 at 8:00 pm.© 2006-2009 "Techtites". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact us with the details.Feed enhanced by the Add To Feed Plugin by Ajay D'Souza

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How to Preview Thumbnails of Google Search Results <a href="http://bit.ly/dxXCl4" rel="external">http://bit.ly/dxXCl4</a> http://ajaydsouza.net/items/view/2285 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:38:00 -0700 http://twitter.com/ajaydsouza/statuses/10082505528 How to Preview Thumbnails of Google Search Results http://ajaydsouza.net/items/view/2284 We all want to get the best results whenever we search about something online. Using Google, sometimes I end up spending a lot of time finding what I exactly want. This is usually because I cannot fully know what a link contains with the text Google’s search shows. Here is what the search results for the word PREVIEWS turned up on Google:

Since I cannot see what the site of each result contains, I cannot determine its layout, color scheme, number of ads, and other information which can potentially save my time and help me decide on the best search result. To solve this, I found a wonderful tool which I am now going to share with you: Xmarks Thumbnails.

Xmarks Thumbnails is a great browser extension for Google Chrome which adds thumbnails to the search results of Google. Have a look at the same search result after I had installed this extension:

The thumbnails clearly show me how the webpage is designed and help me a lot in deciding whether or not I want to visit that site. The extension also adds additional information to each result. This information includes the category of the result, its ranking in that category, and its rating (as shown by the number of stars).

Xmarks Thumbnails was formerly Foxmarks as it started out with add-ons for Mozilla Firefox. The extension’s thumbnails feature works on Google Search results of all countries and will surely benefit internet users worldwide. Give Xmarks Thumbnails a try on your Chrome and let me know what you think about it in the comments. Our Friend: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Online - Read the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle including Sherlock Holmes Related Posts:Search And Play Youtube Videos Within ChromeHow To Replace Chrome New tab With Your Predefined Visual Bookmarks3 Excellent Chrome Extensions To Manage Gmail AccountSpeed Up Your Browsing Experience in Chrome with FastestFoxSearch For Tweets Relevant To The keywords In ChromePowered by Contextual Related Posts Tags: google search results, how to, preview thumbnails How to Preview Thumbnails of Google Search Results was first posted on March 6, 2010 at 11:00 pm.© 2006-2009 "Techtites". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact us with the details.Feed enhanced by the Add To Feed Plugin by Ajay D'Souza

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Established nothing today! http://ajaydsouza.net/items/view/2283 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:51:00 -0700 http://twitter.com/ajaydsouza/statuses/10076038938 Off for a training programme! http://ajaydsouza.net/items/view/2282 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:10:00 -0700 http://twitter.com/ajaydsouza/statuses/10056204326 Last day of the week... I hope! http://ajaydsouza.net/items/view/2278 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:05:00 -0700 http://twitter.com/ajaydsouza/statuses/10005521133 WordPress Picks for the Week [03/03] <a href="http://bit.ly/aCCgYH" rel="external">http://bit.ly/aCCgYH</a> http://ajaydsouza.net/items/view/2277 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:38:00 -0700 http://twitter.com/ajaydsouza/statuses/9937528700 just blogged: If they had a cow… <a href="http://ping.fm/A0igq" rel="external">http://ping.fm/A0igq</a> http://ajaydsouza.net/items/view/2276 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:37:00 -0700 http://twitter.com/ajaydsouza/statuses/9935381465