How to download and upload files from an FTP site

How to speed up your pc during boot up

Here the tip on how to speed up your pc during boot up process.

1.  Click Start
2. Click Run
3. Type msconfig
4. In the startup tab uncheck all the startup items.
5. Click Apply and Ok
6. Restart your pc

Now you will note that the boot up process is a little bit faster than what it was.

Firefox 4.0 Personal Impressions

Browser wars are heating up like they are, as what we have seen previously between netscape navigator and internet explorer. Today, there are 4 major web browsers they are as follows Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Safari. Just recently, I decided to take a look of what’s new with the firefox 4.0 beta release. Admittedly, in the office I’ve been using Internet explorer as my default browser and firefox as my secondary browsers. When doing some web development though, I’m using firefox because of the bunch of add-ons to name a few firebug firephp among many others.

Please note though that these are my own personal impression based on my personal experience.

New User Interface

I’ve been using firefox for quite sometime now and my first impression is that the UI is a little bit same to that of chrome. Tabs appear on top of the address bar but we can still do the same to that of 3.x.x by un-selecting tabs on top. By default menus have also gone but we can also revert be selecting menus bar option or by pressing the alt button for a period of time. A new dropdown button has also been added for all the commands needed. The idea behind is to maximized the space. Spaces between tabs are more pronounce compared to its predecessors. For a great user experience you can still do a customization.

Firefox 4.0 User Interface

HTML5  WebM & CSS 3

Mozilla is moving with time and now supporting HTML 5 video playback by implementing open source Google WebM video codec as well as CSS3. As many others had done for this I’ve tested WebM capabilities by opening Youtube’s HTML 5 project. As expected, there’s not much that difference between flash.

HTML 5 Support

Security

Firefox 4 support for out of process plugins (OOPP) which means single tab crush a plugins that isolates from the main browser process.

Add-on New Looks

I’m an avid fun of Firefox ad-ons and I’m very please to see the new add-ons manager. However, not all add-ons are currently support.

To 10 Linux Distros based on Popularity In 2010

Lets take a look at last year (2010)  top 10 desktop linux distribution based on popularity. The list came from distrowatch via Page Hit Ranking (PHR).

Here are the top 10 list.

1. Unbuntu 
2. Fedora 
3. Mint
4. OpenSuse
5. Debian
6. PCLinuxOS
7. Mandriva
8. Sabayon
9. Arch
10. Puppy

Since 2005 Ubuntu is holding its ground as far as popularity is concern among desktop linux users. You may also refer to the graph provided by google trends.

Its quite interesting to note that  3 of the top five were all debians these are ubuntu,mint, and debian.