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MAY 12, 2010  There are many keyboard shortcuts and tips for Firefox but not many users know about mouse shortcuts and tips for Firefox. These are some  mouse tricks and shortcuts for Firefox users  to do more from mouse when using Firefox. Middle click on a link opens it in a new tab Hold the  Ctrl  key and  Scroll Up  to increase the font size Hold the  Ctrl  key and  Scroll Up  to decrease the font size Shift + Scroll Down  = Go Back a Page Shift + Scroll Up  = Go Forward a Page Shift + Left Click  = Open Link in New Window Middle Click  on Tab = Close a Tab Ctrl + Scroll Up  = Text Size Decrease Ctrl + Scroll Down  = Text Size Increase Middle click  on a tab to close it Hope these tips will make your Firefox experience more easy and fun. Also add in the comments if you have any such Firefox mouse tips.

by Consumer Reports Magazine Wednesday, May 12, 2010 Using a Weak Password Avoid simple names or words you can find in a dictionary, even with numbers tacked on the end. Instead, mix upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols. A password should have at least eight characters. One good technique is to insert numbers or symbols in the middle of a word, such as this variant on the word "houses": hO27usEs! Leaving Your Full Birth Date in Your Profile It's an ideal target for identity thieves, who could use it to obtain more information about you and potentially gain access to your bank or credit card account. If you've already entered a birth date, go to your profile page and click on the Info tab, then on Edit Information. Under the Basic Information section, choose to show only the month and day or no birthday at all. Overlooking Useful Privacy Controls For almost everything in your Facebook profile, you can limit access to only your friends, friend...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The son of billionaire investor Warren Buffetthas an old-world spiritual message for today's money-rich parents: teach your children values and do not give them everything they want. Musician and now author Peter Buffett preaches the message in his new book "Life is What You Make it: Finding Your Own Path to Fulfillment". Recently released in the United States, it describes how he wound up a "normal, happy" person instead of a spoiled child to one of the world's richest people. Buffett, 52, teaches the rewards of self-respect and pursuing one's own passions and accomplishments rather than buying into society's concepts of material wealth. "I am my own person and I know what I have accomplished in my life," he said. "This isn't about wealth or fame or money or any of that stuff, it is actually about values and what you enjoy and finding something you love doing." People who are born with a silver spoon in t...

Systems problems are traditionally solved in either hardware or the operating system. Hardware is too expensive to experiment with, while OS-based solutions suffer from the chicken-and-egg problem of moving the world to your improved OS. The virtual machine monitor (VMM) presents a sweet spot between these two extremes. VMM-based solutions can solve a problem in software, once, and yet solve it for all popular operating systems and applications. I'll be using a new, VMM-based tool called VProbes both to demonstrate the scope of what the VMM can intercept, and and as an example of a feature that would be difficult to implement in other layers. VProbes provides a globally coherent, safe, programmable, interactive window into a running machine, from its CPUs to memory to peripherals.

By  Michael Mullany  | October 5th, 2009 at 1:10PM There are many opinions in the air about the impact that virtualization has on performance, so I thought a short blog would be good to explain (as best I can) virtual machine performance characteristics with pointers to relevant benchmarks and technical papers. My background is that I was an early Product Manager working on VMware ESX Server (from version 1.5) and among other things ran product management for VMware for a few years. As a product management guy, I kept track of the output of the engineering performance group, and as a result had a reasonable high level (although never code level) understanding of the whys and wherefores of virtualization performance. Although I'm not as fresh on virtualization as I once was, I'll try to do my best here. I also want to thank Steve Herrod at VMware, and Simon Crosby at Citrix for providing a technical sanity check on the blog contents, although I retain responsibility f...

By  Mian Usman  • Apr 15th, 2010 Many of us out of anger, continued stress, peer pressure, lack of trust, lack of job stability, mis-understandings and mis-communication often chose to often decide to part our ways from our life partners temporarily or on permanent basis (husband & wife) and either choose to live alone or get married again. The solution to one problem can not be solved by creating an other one. Married people especially having kids should think 100 times before making their minds to decide on leaving their life partner. The way a mother and father together jointly look after the kids, no person or no arrangement can be a substitute to that. The suffering party would always be the kids as they go in to a deep emotional distress in an early age of life where they should have been busy in making fun and enjoying the worry free life, an un due aggression is developed in them against the world and they don't trust any body and can not enjoy a good marital...

By  Cecilia Kang Washington Post Staff Writer  Wednesday, April 21, 2010 The online search provider disclosed how often it receives requests for private information from government authorities around the globe, as well as demands to censor its applications. The company said it hopes to shed light on the practices of governments and on a growing push to block information on the Web. "We at Google believe that greater transparency will lead to less censorship online," said David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer. He said more than 40 governments censor information today, up from four in 2002. China has put up firewalls so that domestic users cannot access information, as well as technological barricades that prevent users from communicating with each other. Google showed that Brazil and the United States made the most requests for private user data from July to December of 2009. Each nation asked more than 3,000 times for such information on users of YouTube and...