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[How-To] Viewing Websites Without Entering any Password

Posted on December 18, 2008 by Vaibhav Pandey

This article takes you back into time to re-visit the previous posts written on Technofriends which help you view websites without registering on them. So if you are someone who is annoyed with the process of creating user-id’s with websites, these posts below should help. Click on the relevant hyperlinks to read more of these posts.

1.) BugMeNot lets you View Webcontent without Passwords: BugMeNot is an interesting website which provides you with disposable login details for a large number of popular websites on the Internet. Interestingly, BugMeNot also has a Firefox-Add On which lets you bypass compulsory web registration with the context menu via http://www.bugmenot.com. Read More about BugMeNot and how to use it to get disposable login details.

Image: BugMeNot gives you login details for many websites.

2.) Be the BOT lets you Fool websites by changing your Request Header: BeTheBot is another interesting website which lets you check out websites which tend to give out their authenticated content to bots for caching purposes. BeTheBot modifies the User Agent Request Header to the Google Bot or Yahoo Bot, this makes the web server believe that the request is indeed coming from Google Bot or Yahoo Bot. This post also introduces you to an interesting Firefox Add-On called UserAgentSwitcher. Read more about BeTheBot and Fooling Websites.

Image: IT Knowledge Exchange helps you get answers to your complex technical questions

3.) IT Knowledge Exchange: A free edition of Experts Exchange: If you are someone who doesnt have access to ExpertsExchange, nothing to worry about, IT Knowledge Exchange is an interesting website which was created to allow IT professionals to ask questions and get answers in a collaborative manner.

Enough of me… What are the other ways you would recommend for checking out Password Protected Content. Feel free to comment about other services which you might like to get listed on Technofriends.

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Filed under: Tools | Tagged: Agent Request, Bot, Bots, BugMeNot, Collaborative Manner, Computers, Context Menu, Experts Exchange, Firefox, Google, Google Yahoo, How-To, Internet, Knowledge Exchange, Login Details, Passwords, Relevant Hyperlinks, Request Header, Technical Questions, Tutorial, Web Registration, Web Server, Yahoo, Yahoo Bot | 1 Comment »

Greasefire Helps You Automatically Find GreaseMonkey Scripts For a Website

Posted on December 18, 2008 by Vaibhav Pandey

If you are a Greasemonkey Fan and often find yourself downloading interesting scripts from UserScripts.org. This article shall bring great news for you.

Firefox Add-On GreaseFire is an interesting add-on which lets you automatically find GreaseMonkey Scripts for a website. When you visit a web page that has compatible user scripts on Userscripts.org, this extension will highlight the Greasemonkey icon in the status bar. Right click the Greasemonkey icon and choose the “X scripts available” item to see and install the scripts available for the current page.

Image: Greasefire automatically finds Greasemonkey scripts for the website being surfed.

If you are thinking that using GreaseFire might bring in more latency to the page load time, you might be surprised to know that Greasefire uses a local index to look up scripts that apply to the page you are on — it does not send any browsing data to a server.

Image: Set your Preferences for GreaseFire

This index is updated periodically, you can update your preferences for this update time by going through Tools –> Add-ons -> Greasefire -> Preferences for details.

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Filed under: Firefox, Firefox Add On | Tagged: Add Ons, Add-on, Browser Add-On, Current, Firefox, GreaseFire, Greasemonkey Scripts, Great News, icon, Latency, Page Image, Page Load Time, Tools, Userscripts, Web Page | Leave a comment »

6 Special Websearch Services from Google

Posted on December 1, 2008 by Vaibhav Pandey

Google, the big daddy of Search also offers special search features for anything related to US Government, Linux, BSD, Microsoft, Mac and Firefox.

To check out these special Search Features from Google, read out more below

1.) Searching for something related to US Government? Check Out http://www.google.com/unclesam

2.) Stuck with something in Linux? try out Google’s special Linux search at http://www.google.com/linux

3.) For all your search related to BSD, refer http://www.google.com/bsd

4.) Own a Mac? Try out searching forMAC related information at http://www.google.com/mac

5.) Google also offers a search about Microsoft, find it at http://www.google.com/microsoft

6.) Another very interesting Topic covered on Google is Firefox, search for it at http://www.google.com/firefox

Filed under: Google | Tagged: Big Daddy, Bsd, Computers, Firefox, Google, Google Google, Google Search, Http Www Google Com, Internet, Linux, Linux Search, Mac, Microsoft, search, Search Features, Search Google, Www Google Com, Www Microsoft | Leave a comment »

Firefox Addon UrlbarExt extends your Location bar

Posted on November 14, 2008 by Vaibhav Pandey

Firefox Addon URLbarExt 1.4.8 is an interesting Firefox Plugin which extends the functionality of your Location bar with set of commands which can help you Tiny your URL using Tiny URL, Copy URL, Search Site, Page Tagging and others.

URLBarExt Firefox plugin

UrlbarExt Extends Location Bar with set of icons to
1- Go up one level,or directly to the root of the current site(double click).
2- Copy the current site URL OR custom formatted URL.
3- Shorten the URL using your favorite service.
4- Search the current site using Google.
5- Tag current Page,this one adds an unique feature to Firefox interface,
make it easier for Firefox user’s to Tag the pages they browse and later find it easily using “Awesome bar” or “Recent Tags” menu
6- Navigate through sequential URLs.
7- Surf anonymously using online phproxy servers and Unblock filtered websites.

You can show/hide any icon you don’t need using the settings dialog. URLBarExt also has a Youtube channel where you can find interesting videos related to the usage of this extension.

Do note that you would be required to login to the Mozilla website to download this add-on as it is still in experimental mode.

Also read: 7 essential Firefox add-on to help you Blog better

My list of 5 best Firefox Extensions

Do you store your passwords using Firefox?

Some quick Firefox Tips and Tricks

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Vaibhav

Filed under: Firefox | Tagged: Add-on, Browser, Computers, Firefox, Firefox Add On, Firefox Extensions, Internet, Mozilla Firefox, Technology, URLBarExt | 2 Comments »

Firefox 3.1 to add Private Browsing feature

Posted on November 6, 2008 by Vaibhav Pandey

Firefox has finally realized the importance of Private Browsing after Chrome’s release which had Incognito Window feature from Day 1.

Mozilla Developer Centre blog, says

Private browsing allows you to turn off Firefox’s recording of history and cookie information as you browse the web. This feature will be included for the first time in Firefox 3.1 Beta 2.

Private Browsing in Firefox 3.1

Start Browsing Privately in Firefox

So what exactly is Private Browsing? Ehsan Akhgari has the answer to it.

Private Browsing aims to help you make sure that your web browsing activities don’t leave any trace on your own computer. It is very important to note that Private Browsing is not a tool to keep you anonymous from websites or your ISP, or for example protect you from all kinds of spyware applications which use sophisticated techniques to intercept your online traffic. Private Browsing is only about making sure that Firefox doesn’t store any data which can be used to trace your online activities, no more, no less.

Hope you enjoyed reading this post.

Also interestingly, Firefox now has a market share of 20% globally. Congratulations Firefox, good job done.

Also read: [How-To] Open Firefox Bookmarks Using Keywords

Some quick Firefox Tips and Tricks

Mozilla Firefox: Get the data from your Cache

Do you store your passwords using Firefox?

Blogging: 7 essential Firefox add-ons

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Cheers

Vaibhav Pandey

Filed under: Firefox, News | Tagged: Computers, Firefox, History, How-To, Internet, News, Private Browsing, Tips, Tutorial | 2 Comments »

Create HTML Signatures in GMAIL using Better Gmail 2

Posted on May 25, 2008 by Vaibhav Pandey

If you are one of those who uses Firefox and always wonder about creating HTML Signatures in Gmail, here is good news for you. Better Gmail 2 firefox add-on has been released and it can certainly help you create HTML signatures in Gmail.

Apart from giving you an option for creating HTML Signatures in GMAIL, Better Gmail 2 also offers the following features

1.) Forces Encrypted connection. ( https) : Earlier you read how to connect and stay secure while working on Gmail. Now you need not worry about it. Better Gmail 2 does this all for you.

2.) Attachment Icons: This features adds icons for the attachments received.

3.) Add Row Highlights.

4.) Adding Skins for Gmail: Select from a range of available skins for Gmail.

5.) Create Folders for Gmail; This feature lists labels in a folder like structure.

6.) Hide your Spam Counts

Read more about Better Gmail 2 on Lifehacker blog.

Also read: How-To: In GMAIL, show unread mails at the top in your inbox?

Gtalk adds Invisible Mode

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Filed under: Firefox | Tagged: Better Gmail, Better Gmail 2, Firefox, Firefox Add On, gmail, Tools | 4 Comments »

[How-To] Open Firefox Bookmarks Using Keywords

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Vaibhav Pandey

You already know how to get data from your Firefox Cache and why you should not save your passwords using Firefox, in this post i will bring to you an interesting hack which allows you to open Firefox Bookmarks using a keyword.

You can open any firefox bookmark using a simple keyword attached with it. The keyword needs to be stored as a property for the bookmark. This hack is pretty useful when trying to open long URL’s.

For example, lets assume you wish to save http://www.technofriends.in into your bookmarks folder as one of the favorite item and would like http://www.technofriends.in to open up anytime you enter TF and press enter in your firefox browser tab/window.

1.) Drag and drop the link to the page http://www.technofriends.in into your Link toolbar or click on the menu link Bookmarks –> Organize Bookmarks.

2.) Click on the menu link File –> New Bookmark or select the icon which says ” New Bookmark”

3.) Enter the details for the bookmark like ” Name” for the name of the bookmark, ” Location” stores the URL of the webpage you wish to bookmark, in our case, http://www.technofriends.in and ” Keyword” for the keyword you wish to use, in our case “tf”. Enter “Description” if you wish to.

4.) Click on OK and close the Organize Bookmarks window.

5.) Now open a new browser tab/ window and key in tf and hit enter in the browser. Keywords are case-insensitive. Entering TF or tf shall render the same results.

6.) http://www.technofriends.in opens up. You just finished setting up and testing the keyword hack for opening bookmarks in browsers. This hack is pretty useful when trying to open long URL’s like banking websites login page, your wordpress.com dashboard page etc.

For already existing bookmarks, click on the properties tab of the bookmark and enter the keyword, save the details by clicking OK and you are done.

Also read: Some quick Firefox Tips and Tricks

Be the BOT: Fool websites by changing your Header

Do you store your passwords using Firefox?

How-To: Set multiple homepages in Firefox.

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Vaibhav

Filed under: Firefox | Tagged: Bookmarks, Firefox, Hack, How-To, Internet, Keywords, Tips, Tools, Tricks, Tutorial | 3 Comments »

Mozilla Firefox: Get the data from your Cache

Posted on May 2, 2008 by Vaibhav Pandey

Often it happens that while browsing some website we keep diving into design and programming ideas for our own websites, A train of thoughts run into our thought process sending signals that with a little customization we can make the same stuff look good on our own website as well. For this to happen in reality, all we need to know is which scripts, files and style sheets has the designer of the particular website made use of.

All the information that we access on the web and displayed on the browser is locally stored in the cache memory of your computer and can be accessed directly through your browser. In case of Mozilla Firefox, type about:cache in the address bar and hit the Enter key to access information stored in browser cache.

The browser window displays information about Storage size, storage location, number of entries etc. However, this information is not very useful from the perspective of what we wish to achieve, i.e. getting hand of the images, javascripts, stylesheets etc used in the website of our choice.

In order to get a more meaningful and useful information from the cache information displayed on the screen, click on the link “List Cache Entries”

The information displayed now has list of all the entries in the cache. Using Firefox’s search feature you can easily search for a particular file type such as javascript (.js), images (.gif, .jpg, .png etc) or even style sheets (.css)

Clicking on the link will display you the information about the file requested. It can either be in the form of a direct internet link or code from the cache.

Now all you need to do is, copy the code into an editor like Notepad++ and edit the same to suit your needs.

Hope you enjoyed reading this.

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Filed under: Firefox | Tagged: Browsers, Cache, Firefox, How-To, Technology, Tips, Tools, Tricks, Tutorial | 5 Comments »

How-To: Set multiple homepages in Firefox.

Posted on November 15, 2007 by Vaibhav Pandey

Firefox allows you to set multiple home page’s using a special delimiting character notation. If you wish to set two or more homepages using Firefox, follow the steps mentioned below:

Click on Tools menu.
Select Options.

In the main tab there is a textbox with a label called HomePage
You can fill in as many URL’s as you wish by seperating them with a | and a space.
For eg, if you wish to set Technofriends blog and Gmail.com as your home page; enter https://technofriends.wordpress.com| http://gmail.com this in the HomePage textbox.
Press OK.
Restart Firefox.

Cheers

Vaibhav

Filed under: Firefox, How-To, Technology, Tips, Tricks, Tutorials, web | Tagged: Browsers, Firefox, geeks, How-To, Technology, Tips, Tricks, Tutorials | 7 Comments »

My list of 5 best Firefox Extensions

Posted on October 21, 2007 by Vaibhav Pandey

Firefox Extensions definitely adds value to Firefox. Infact, extensions have played a vital role in the popularity of Firefox.
In this post, I am putting up a list of 5 best Firefox Extensions. These are the extensions that i have been using since sometime now.

1.) Scrapbook:- Helps you to save Web pages and organize the collection.

ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and easily manage collections. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support. Major features are:
* Save Web page
* Save snippet of Web page
* Save Web site
* Organize the collection in the same way as Bookmarks
* Full text search and quick filtering search of the collection
* Editing of the collected Web page
* Text/HTML edit feature resembling Opera’s Notes

2.) GmailManager:- Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications.

GmailManager displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.

3.) DictionarySearch:- Looks up a user selected word in an online dictionary.

DictionarySearch allows you to select a word, right-click on it, and choose Define.A definition provided by Dictionary.com then appears in another tab. This is a very easy way to learn the meaning of new words from within Firefox.

4.) About This Site:- One-click access to web site metadata.

About This Site gives One-click access to web site metadata – traffic, related and linked pages, and more – added to the Tools menu and context menu.

5.) FoxyTunes:- FoxyTunes is a Firefox add-on that allows you to control your favorite media player without ever leaving the browser.

FoxyTunes lets you listen to Music while surfing the Web. It lets you control almost any media player and find lyrics, covers, videos, bios and much more with a click right from your browser.

Supports WinAmp, iTunes, Yahoo Music Engine, Pandora, foobar2000, Windows Media Player, Xbox Media Center, Musicmatch, Quintessential, J. River, jetAudio, XMPlay, MediaMonkey, Media Player Classic, Sonique, wxMusik, Real Player, XMMS, Noatun, Juk, Amarok, Music Player Daemon, Rhythmbox and many other players.

Just click on the orange note and select your player.

This was all about my list of Firefox Extension. Do write about the extensions you should have made it to the list.

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