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UrlbarExt is a wonderful add-on for Firefox. It provides  useful tools from within the address bar of Firefox.
To quote,
UrlbarExt extends the Location Bar with set of commands to (Make Tiny URL,Copy URL,Search site,Go up,Tag pages easily ,Navigate through sequential URL’s,View page cached version,Unblock filtered websites and Surf anonymously using online phproxy servers).
This helps to shave [...]

Download the windows binaries for Ruby 1.8.7 here: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/ extract that to wherever you would like, I use c:\ruby. Then put c:\ruby\bin in your PATH environment variable.
Download the zlib package: http://www.zlib.net/zlib123-dll.zip and extract the zlib1.dll, rename it to zlib.dll and move it into your Windows\System32.
Download the iconv package: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25167&package_id=51458. Find and extract the iconv.dll into [...]

Requirements:

PuTTY on local machine
Remote host running OpenSSH

1. Create a new PuTTY session
Run PuTTY and create a new session in PuTTY to connect to the remote host that is running OpenSSH. Fill in the hostname, the port (usually 22), make sure SSH is checked, give it a session name and hit Save.
2. Configure a secure tunnel
Click [...]

Download the j2se SDK from http://java.sun.com. Download the “.bin” file. In a terminal window, run the following commands.

Switch to root use by issuing
$ su -
Password:

cd to the directory where the file was downloaded.
# cd ~nick/Downloads/
Change the permission of the file and execute it.
# chmod +x j2sdk*.bin
# ./j2sdk-*.bin
Make a directory under /usr/local (for example /usr/local/sun).
# [...]

Press Windows Key + R (To open the run dialog).
Type in the following:
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

Now create a shortcut (right-click on an empty space in the folder and select New-> shortcut). Add the following line.
RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll
This creates a quick launch to the “Safely Remove Hardware” dialog. Now you can reduce the number of [...]


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