Just add the links to your “bookmark bar” and be happy…
(WordPress is not allowing me to generate links to “javascript:” references, thus I cannot make draggable links) soo … Select the code, drag it to the “bookmarks bar” then rename it to your liking.

Add Google Bookmark

javascript:(function(){var a=window, b=document, c=encodeURIComponent, d=a.open("http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&output=popup&bkmk="+c(b.location)+"&title="+c(b.title), "bkmk_popup", "left="+((a.screenX||a.screenLeft)+10)+", top="+((a.screenY||a.screenTop)+10)+", height=420px, width=550px, resizable=1, alwaysRaised=1");a.setTimeout(function(){d.focus()}, 300)})();


View Google Bookmark

javascript:(function(){var a=window, b=document, c=encodeURIComponent, d=a.open("http://www.google.com/bookmarks/", "bkmk_popup", "left="+((a.screenX||a.screenLeft)+10)+", top="+((a.screenY||a.screenTop)+10)+", height=420px, width=550px, resizable=1, alwaysRaised=1"); a.setTimeout(function(){d.focus()}, 300)})();


Scroll

javascript:var one,two=new Function('clearTimeout(one)'); document.onkeydown=two; two(); void(one=setInterval('if( pageYOffset<document.height-innerHeight) {window.scrollBy(0,1)} else{two}',50));


KeepVid

javascript:window.location.href = 'http://keepvid.com/?url=' + window.location.href;


BlackOnWhite

javascript: (function(){ var newSS, styles='* { background: white ! important; color: black !important } :link, :link * { color: #0000EE !important } :visited, :visited * { color: #551A8B !important }'; if(document.createStyleSheet) { document.createStyleSheet("javascript:'"+styles+"'"); } else { newSS=document.createElement('link'); newSS.rel='stylesheet'; newSS.href='data:text/css,'+escape(styles); document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(newSS); } } )();


Gmail

javascript:var%20w=window, u='https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2& view=cm& fs=1& tf=1', l=document.location; try{%20throw(0); %20}%20catch(z)%20{a%20=function(){if(!w.open(u, 't', 'toolbar=0, resizable=0, status=1, width=600, height=500'))l.href=u; }; if(/Firefox/.test(navigator.userAgent))setTimeout(a, 0); else%20a(); }void(0)


… More, may be added …

Solution: First of all see A List Apart – Print your way and Fix for the firefox css one page printing problem bug.

Below is the css that fixed my problem…


#navigation { display: none !important;}
#header { display: none !important;}
#footer { display: none !important;}
.right { display: none !important;}
select { display: none !important;}

* {visibility:hidden !important;}
#notes_all *
{
visibility:visible !important;
overflow: visible !important;
overflow-y : visible !important;
}


Solution: This effect seems impossible to achieve using native Windows NTFS Security as the parent inherently seems to receive at least as much as the child (I’m guessing) so we will have to “CHEAT!”

Step 0: Make sure you have Simple File Sharing Disabled

Step 1: Create Your Parent Content Folder

Step 2: Create a new text file in that folder named “!.txt”

Step 3: Right Click “!.txt” and click “Properties” … then … Check “Hidden” Check box … then … Select the “Security” Tab … then … Click “Advanced”

Step 4: Uncheck “Include inheritable permissions from this object’s parent” Check box … then … Click “Remove”

Step 5: Right-click your parent folder … then … Click “Properties” … then … Select “Security” Tab … then … Uncheck/Clear “Full Control” , “Allow” checkbox … then … Click ok.

Now you should be able to have other files in that folder you can fully edit, but the accidental deletion of that folder is prevented.

Answer: Use an array to differentiate the calls from each other.


var myReqNum = 0; //Global Variable
var http = new Array();

function ajaxFunc(var1,var2)
{
myReqNum++;
var myLocalReq=myReqNum; //Localized variable so that ajax calls can utilize it
var url="page1.php?var1="+var1+"&var2="+var2;

http[myLocalReq].open('get', url);
http[myLocalReq].onreadystatechange = function()
{
stateChangedFunc(var2,http[myLocalReq]);
};
http[myLocalReq].send(null);
}

…

function stateChangedFunc(var2,theReq)
{
if (theReq.readyState==4 || theReq.readyState==”complete”)
{
document.getElementById(var2).innerHTML=theReq.responseText;
}
}

Solution: Place the javaScript call at the end of the HTML document to ensure all elements load before the code executes.

Solution:

1 – Utilize Secret Volume Boost

VLC: hit “Control + Up Arrow” (Hit Up Arrow while holding down Control)

Quicktime: “Shift + Click Volume Slider” or “Shift + Up Arrow”

2 – Purchase external speakers

I found a great portable option at ROSS. $14, 85 DB, Works with DC or 4 AA

This is a guidebook to smooth computing. So read and apply the advice here and you will not regret it. Keyword is awareness, and I will allow you to become aware and give you the tools and know-how for you to be happy with your machines performance, FINALLY! Let’s begin…

Hardware

This guide will improve everyones PCs performance, but if you’re wondering if you should “upgrade” any hardware components and if you’re “General Desktop” user, which means you check your email, use office products, listen to music and video and occasional other tasks, this is all you need to have as far as hardware goes. You should have 1 Ghz Processor speed and 1 GB of Ram, 50 GB HD+. More would be nice but not neccesary for this level of usage. It should be plenty to do what we need it to do. Don’t WASTE YOUR MONEY!

The Split

PARTITION YOUR HARD DRIVE. Especially if you have over 50 GB in hard drive space.

For XP Installation Partition Reserve 30 GB

You may take the rest for you 2nd partition. (or more for 100 GB or higher)

1st Way: If you’re installing XP Fresh, use the built-in tool to make 2 partitions out of your hard drive.

Call first one XP (C:\) second one could be BACKUP (D:\) If you choose to have more partitions these names (ideas) could be considered (ISO (For CD/DVD Image Files), MULTIMEDIA (Audio, Video Files), TEMP

If you already have a partition you will have to use a tool, only one really that did the work has been “Partition Magic” but appearantly now there is a new tool, and it’s free for “HOME USE” called EASEUS Partition Manager.

EASEUS Partition Manager: http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm

note: I haven’t used this title but it should be pretty self explanatory. Simply make a new Partition giving your XP Installation 30 GB or so, if you have all your files (Documents, Music, Videos) already on your C:\ Drive you may at least at first have to give it more room since you can not decrease the usage size while re-partitioning. You will be moving these files to your new back up partition freeing up space for the XP Partition.

The Beginning

If fresh installation go through with your basic installation under C:\ Drive. Nothing fancy here.

In your second (or other) Partitions then, organize your “non-Windows”, “non-Program Files” Folders and Files. So organize your BACKUP Partition(s) into main folders that will make most sense to you and Organize and Clean up your Videos, MP3s, Documents, Pictures, Downloaded Programs (NOT the installed versions that are normally under c:\program files) etc. under appropriately created folders.

The Lean, Mean Machine

Now that we’ve got our personal stuff out to where they belong, you want ONLY what you NEED on your machine as far as Programs go. Nothing you won’t use belongs on your machine. So we CLEAN. Here’s the break-down.

Cleaning Method 1 – Uninstall

Uninstall Unused Applications: You don’t need to have everything that can install on your machine actually installed. Think about what you use and get rid of what you don’t, be aggressive, that’s what it takes to have a screamingly fast machine that does what you WANT it to do.

You also want to take control over what starts up with windows considering these programs run the whole time you’re using your PCs using the resources that you could’ve been using to speed up what YOU want your computer to do. You may use CCleaner for this task. Try “Disabling” the apps you don’t think you need and see if you see any side affects. Personally I don’t think the Adobe Quick Launch, Any “Update” service, Most Graphics services are too neccesary, you may try Googling the executable name that shows under START UP list and decide, THE FEWER THE BETTER. Try to keep the amount of startup programs under “5″, YOU CAN DO IT!

Cleaning Method 2 – DeCrappify

CCleaner : Temp Files, Unused files, log files etc. are the files you comoputer generates but it doesn’t take out the trash. So you NEED a cleaner, but you don’t want to JUNK your computer by installing bunch of cleaners, since they mostly do the same things, pick one, I recommend CCleaner as it does Good Cleaning with frequent updates, Registry cleaning that never caused any problems for me, nice uninstall utility which you can use in Cleaning Method 1 above and even a START-UP CONTROL Panel which could also be used in Method 1.

System Cleanup by Francky : This tools maybe the most comprehensive cleanup, single executable I’ve seen.

Cleaning Method 3 – Disinfect

Anti-Virus:  Someone who knows how to use a computer should not need an AntiVirus Software. Yes, you heard correctly, that’s my position, not a challenge. Anti-Virus Software are performance hogs as they scan your everymove, literally, that’s what they’re supposed to do. If you use your computer responsibly, go to Trusted sites, don’t click and keep clicking on things you don’t know, don’t get install happy, download your apps from known sources, monitor your emails and practice caution with attachements and spoof mails, YOU WON’T GET A VIRUS, well most likely. But if you do, I recommend, Avira AntiVir @ http://www.free-av.com/ It’s free and effective and performance friendly. You won’t regret it.

Anti-Spyware:  Spybot Search and Destroy @ http://www.spybot.com/ Scan, Clean, Immunize and control Registry Changes. The full work you can’t go wrong. You will also see why “Browser Tool Bars” are mostly evil when you run this.

Cleaning Method 4

Large Windows Files that CAN be deleted.

XP Hotfix Files: If you’re happy with your XP Updates and sure you won’t need to UNINSTALL THEM, you can save hundred of megabytes by deleting the UNINSTALL Folders. Located under c:\Windows\$Uninstall******, You may delete these. If you don’t see them and don’t know how, I’m not gonna tell ya. Don’t forget to DELETE the Add/Remove Entries that corresponds to these folders as well to finish the job.

Prefetch Folder Contents : C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\

PcHealth Data: C:\WINDOWS\pchealth\helpctr\DataColl\

The Problem and The Solution: Fragmentation

AWARENESS will save our computer performance, this is the main problem why computers slow down.

Everything in this guide is to minimize this problem and this is the final touch in this manner. DEFRAGMENTATION.

Use http://www.defraggler.com/ “ONCE A WEEK” THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!!!

Get Organized

Organize your Desktop and Start Menu, so it’s also easy for you to USE your computer. Here is a small list of highly recomended practices.

• Create a FOLDER called “STUFF” on your DESKTOP
• MOVE EVERYTHING except “My Computer, (My Documents, My Network Places) Recycle Bin, Maybe your Browser Shortcut (Firefox) into the STUFF Folder. Think of this Folder as your TEMPORARY storage folder, and it is easy to see, sort, select, modify the files when clicked in a Folder rather than over your overly-colorful-family-picture that you have as your WALLPAPER. You will later move the files in here (hopefully) into your BACKUP Drive or Delete them if they’re no use.
• Organize you Start Menu: Find Your “Start Menu Button > Right Click > Explore All Users” and “Right Click > Explore” which will give you the ingredients of your mostlikely too cluttered start menu which you partly get lost everytime you click it. You don’t have to have it that way, there is an alternate, FIX IT. Here is how… You ONLY need the EXECUTABLES, Not their folders withing folders within folders. Some stuff you don’t need to clutter the ROOT level of the Start Menu, Adobe Reader, Windows Media Player, You never click them from the Start MENU, you click the files they open, move these guys under “Accesories”. Only have the Executables to the files of the programs you use and click from the Start Menu under the Root level. Delete all the “UNINSTALL SHORTCUTS” as you can get to those from the UNINSTALL TOOL and you don’t need it cluttering your everyday space. You may make general folders to put secondary importance Items such as “MULTIMEDIA” or “SystemUtils”. PUT SIMILAR THINGS TOGETHER IF YOU FOLDER THEM UP. That’s an example for a nice clean START MENU…

Other Performance Hints

(I will probably update this part later as well)

Disable Error Reporting: You don’t need to loose performance and time to help MICROSOFT.

1. Click on the Start button and select ‘Settings->Control Panel’
2. Double-click on the ‘System’ icon
3. Click on the ‘Advanced’ tab
4. Click on the ‘Error Reporting’ button at the bottom of the window
5. Select ‘Disable Error Reporting’
6. Click OK twice

Undo Compress Old Files

Run Below Command (For Every Drive):

COMPACT /u /s:C:\ /f /a

Other Tips to Come…

RECOMENDED APPLICATION LIST

Multimedia

Documents

OpenOffice : Full Open Source FREE Office Suite, DUMP YOUR MS OFFICE. Supports all formats, for compatibility you may set up save options to save in MS Office formats and you won’t want to go back.

Notepad++ : The Ultimate Text, Code editing tool, Multiple Tabs, Color Coding, Fast Execution, Side-by-Side view, sync..

Audio

Billy : MP3 and Network Stream Player. This is all you really need, small, fast, low profile. No Fancy BLOAT.

Any Audio Converter : Extract audio from video and converting audio between popular formats, such as WMV, MP4, WAV, WMA, OGG, AAC, MP3, M4A, MP2, etc. For speeches all you really need is 32 Bit Mono at 22050, cut them file sizes.

MP3Splitter : To Split MPs, Duh!

Video

VLC : Al-In-One Multi-Platrom, Audio-Video-DVD Playing beast. See Secret Volume Boost Post.

YouTubeToMp3 : Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files. Who needs the video?

CD/DVD

DeepBurner : DeepBurner is an advanced and extremely powerful CD and DVD burning package

Daemon Tools : THE best optical media emulation in the industry.This means, no more CDs or DVDs once you store their image (*.ISO) File into your hard drive.

DVDShrink : A FREE software solution for shrinking original DVDs onto recordable media.

Imaging

PaintStar : versatile digital image processing software suitable for such tasks as retouching of photographs, composing and authoring images, image morphing, screen capture, and displaying image thumbnail in Windows Explorer context menu. It supports alpha, layer, path ,and the most common editing techniques. PaintStar has many of the tools and filters you would expect to find in commercial offerings, and some interesting extras as well.

GIMP : GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

NETWORK

Internet Browser

Google Chrome : Browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

Firefox : The Best All Around browser to date

Internet Explorer : To be used in certain “Microsoft Specific Products” like Outlook Web Access

Firefox Add-Ons

DownThemAll : [ADD] Download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox.

FireFTP : [ADD] FTP client for Mozilla Firefox

Gmail Notifier : [ADD] original notifier for Gmail. Supports checking multiple accounts as well as Gmail Hosted accounts

Download Status Bar : [ADD] View and manage downloads from a tidy status bar.

Foxmarks : [ADD] If you use Firefox on more than one computer, you’ll want Foxmarks. Install Foxmarks on each computer, and it works silently in the background to keep your bookmarks and (optionally) passwords synchronized. Foxmarks also keeps your data backed up and safe from computer failures. If you’re away from your computer, Foxmarks allows you to access your bookmarks online by logging into my.foxmarks.com.

Note: I am moving to Google Bookmarks Usage for this purpose.

System

Anti-Virus

Avira AntiVir : Free, Good, and performance friendly, don’t forget to uninstall your OLD EXPENSIVE ANTIVIRUS.

Anti-Spyware

Spybot : Spybot – Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you haven’t intentionally installed, if your browser crashes inexplicably, or if your home page has been “hijacked” (or changed without your knowledge), your computer is most probably infected with spyware. Even if you don’t see the symptoms, your computer may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging. Spybot-S&D is free, so there’s no harm giving it a try to see if something has invaded your computer.

File/Registry Cleaner

CCleaner : You know, to do all the “Cleaning” we were talking about.

Orphan Finder : To Clean Out Your Orphaned Entries, Especially in your start menu.

MISC

Defraggler : Much better alternative to defragmentation than Windows Built-in Defrag Tool

DIRMS : Very powerful portable, quick, through defragmentation tool

Unlocker : Best Tool to delete files that are locked by Windows.

2xPlorer : Lightweight and powerful, fully shell integrated and extremely usable for increased everyday productivity, 2xExplorer is an ideal dual-pane replacement for explorer, compatible with all 32-bit windows platforms.

OTHER RESOURCES

Microsoft – How to Automate Disk Cleanup Tool

Microsoft – How to Automate Disk Defrag

Tips Consulting

Solution:

1 – Disable IPv6

2 – Setup Static IP Settings For IPv4

Detail: 

1 – Disable IPv6

Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network Connections > Wireless Network Connection > Right Click > Properties > Under Networking Tab Find “Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6)” and UNCHECK the box on the left.

2 – … Highlight ”Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)” > Click Properties > Under General Tab Select Use the following IP Address > Enter IP Address (ex. 192.168.0.103) > Enter Subnet Mask (ex. 255.255.255.0) > Enter Default Gateway (ex. 192.168.0.1) > Entered Prefered DNS Server (ex. 192.168.0.1) > Click OK until everything you opened is applied.

This should fix this specific problem.

Personal Note: This is one of the many reasons why I don’t use VISTA, it’s broken by default, this was a friends computer.

When that happens to me, or I’m talking to myself about it and having a similar conversation as indicated above, I will blog it. So in short this BLOG should have…

• Genral Windows Tips and Tricks
• Software Reviews and Suggestions
• General Computer Usage Tips
• Html, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, ASP, ASP.net, ActionScript Code Issues
• Tutorials and Walkthrough of various technical tasks

So, selfishly documenting for myself while allowing “YOU” to benefit from my frustrations and hours of Googling so you don’t have to do the same if it is your choosing.

So this isn’t about what “I KNOW” it’s about me and you saying “I KNOOOOOOOW”! Get it? Good!