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Firefox is one of the most popular web browser and is widely used, Firefox have provided you with many useful features, tools and addon making it most powerful webbrowser. It provides you with many keyboard shortcuts so as to make your web browsing much faster. Following keyboard shortcuts would be very helpful for you while surfing internet and will save your precious time while you are surfing websites using Firefox.

List of FireFox Keyboard shortcuts :
Ctrl-D    : used to add bookmarks
Ctrl-B    : it displays bookmarks in the sidebar
Ctrl-J    : will display all downloads made
F11     ; to have a full screen display
Ctrl-H   :  will display history

Navigation shortcuts
Alt-Left Arrow    : move back
Alt-Right Arrow     : move forward
F6    : move next Frame
Shift-F6    : move previous Frame
Alt-Home    : go to Home Page
Ctrl-L     : go to the Address Bar
Ctrl-K     : go to the Search Box
Ctrl-T     ; open a tab
Ctrl-W     : close a tab
Ctrl-Tab    : go to the next tab
Ctrl-Shift-Tab   : go to the previous tab
Ctrl- (1-9)    ; select a specific tab
Alt-F4     : close a window
Ctrl-N     : open a new window
Alt-Home  : go to home page
Ctrl+Tab :  rotate forward among tabs
Ctrl+Shft+Tab : rotate to the previous tab
Ctrl+1-9 : choose a number to jump to a specific tab.

Enjoy browsing !!!!

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Konqueror is a wonderful open source web browser with HTML 4.01 compliance, a file manager and a file viewer application bundled in a single package. It uses a HTML rendering engine called KHTML which is also used by Safari Apple webbrowser. It is designed as a core part of K-Desktop Environment, it is licensed and distributed under the GNU General Public License.
Konqueror uses JavaScripts, java applets, CSS, SSL and many more relevant open standards making it a perfect application for all webmanster.

One of the most important feature of Konqueror browser is that it can be integrated with several custom search services, you can accessed them by entering the abbreviation code for the required service to get executed. ( eg :- you can have gg for getting Google.com followed by search term ) you have total freedom for adding custom search services.
Konqueror can also be used for browsing local directory hierarchy, you can either enter location for the folder you want to access in the address bar, or by just selecting items in the file browser window.

You can browse files/directories in different views, you can also play with files and can executed, view, copy-paste, move-delete them.  You can directly open and can execute shell commands using embedded version of Konsole

You can download conqueror using following link :  konqueror.org/download/

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Almost all web developer usually search net got getting codes or they spend most of their time in reviewing codes of other programmers which they have not written, they often look out for getting example codes in books or over the net. If you are one who is in search of getting source codes following sites would be helpful for you.

Google Code Search : Google is widely used search engine which can has a special tool for searching open source, public code you can visit google.com/codesearch and can search your required code.
Github : Github, the popular open source code repository source which is having a code search feature aswell. You can search code based on Language, Project, Developer or File Path. Just visit and search for your required code at github.com/codesearch
PHPClasses : PHP is widely used webprogramming language and is most popular. If you are looking for some specific PHP code or PHPClasses then you should visit phpclasses.org it’s a wonderful place for all webprogrammer. PHP Classes Repository was created in 1999  for distributing freely available programming classes of objects written in different Web scripting language.  Their main goal was to create and build a base of programming components which can be ready for use in any Web applications which are written in PHP.
Koders : it’s one of the popular leading search engine for searching open source and other downloadable codes, its widely used by all web developer and is getting much popularity day-by-day. You can find more information at koders.com/
Krugle : Krugle.com is also a search engine using which you can search open source programs which are located in their repositories, you can quickly share the code with other programmers using this community and can use codes which are available on this site. More information is available on the site at krugle.com

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If you want to exchange data over a network then you can do so easily and in secure manner using SSH [ Secure shell ] this is a special protocol intended to exchange data in highly secured manner using all rules of the protocol. You can easily get access to a remote machine and can operate it using SSH protocol. This can be done using SSH root access.

Once you logged in any machine using SSH root then you can perform execution in the remote system using various commands. Most important advantage of using SSH access is that its highly secure as compare to other methods like rlogin or telnet. For some reason if the network is prone to insecurity, still SSG protocol will ensures secure data transmission using encryption. You have added advantage of session compression if you are using SSH root access. One of the most important benefit of SSH in root access is of prevention of IP spoofing.  Hacking of password by mediator hosts can be prevented if all data transaction is carried out through SSH thus SSH is highly secure and reliable.

You can easily neglect IP addresses from your network which are not trust worthy.
Thus you can prevent webmaster who act as mediators and try to hack and spoof your precious data. Such kind of violations are not possible if you are using SSH root access.
SSH always complete authentication processes before entering into a network to access any remote system.  It uses public/private key cryptographic methods for the same nad ensure the identity of the user requesting the access. Thus there is no chance that a user can spoof as another user and login to the remote systems.
SSH requires many configuration files so that it can work effectively.  It caches the host names with which it usually interact. Thus it have a list of the host names which are referred frequently this helps to make the authentication process faster. Thus root SSH ensure high level of security and all users are benefited from accessing the remote system in secure manner. you need to check if your webhosting service provider offers you SSH access.

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As a webprogrammer you might want to have a look at source code of your site or of any other site, you would normally use countrol+u or View -> Page Source to get source code window which opens in a new browser, it might be annoying to switch between browser windows for getting source code window and website window. Firefox have come up with a very useful addon called “Source Viewer Tab” using which you can view a page source code in a new tab rather than getting it in a new window.

You can install “Source Viewer Tab “  as all other Firefox plugins, after installation you will have to restart Firefox so that you can use it. Once you have it you can use View -> Page Source as you normally would be using and you will get source code for the site you are browsing in next tab rather than in a new Window.

You will have other useful option in source-view tab which you can choose from MENU. You have text-wrapping, text-resizing and several others option.

NOTE : You can download  Source Viewer Tab  from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5908

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WordPress, the most popular and widely used blogging platform had released an updated version Wordpress 2.6.3 after they found vulnerability in Snoopy, the PHP class that popular blogging platform uses to fetch the feeds shown in the Dashboard. The vulnerability in Snoopy can be exploited by nasty webmaster who can inject arbitrary shell commands via a script calling the function “fetch()” or “submit()”with an URL controlled by them.  Thus as a preventive measure Wordpress have come up with latest version of Wordpress 2.6.3 which is safe and secure to use.
If you dont want to download and upload full package of this latest version then you can just download 2 files which they have updated (wp-includes/class-snoopy.php and wp-includes/version.php) and just copy them over your old WordPress 2.6.2 installation.
If you want to save your time, you can just use above 2 updated files and can download and upload them on your previous Wordpress installation, no need to download/upload whole new wordpress version still having wordpress free of any vulnerability.

For more information visit :  http://wordpress.org/development/2008/10/wordpress-263/

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“ Lastchance “ is a very useful application available freely on net, using this application you can autorun few softwares/applications before your Windows OS gets turned off.
Using this tool you can easily initiate backup of your system or can activate virus scan or any system maintenance application.

You will get various functionality with this tool. Using “AutoShutdown” sub-menu you can schedule the Windows ShutDown and can active few tasks to run before your windows system get shut down. You also make your system to run few applications when your computer is in standby mode or you are not using it for few moments. You can specify required application to be activated on the sub-menu “Run on resource availability”  lastly on the “Run On Shutdown” sub-menu you can add any application that you want to run when the computer is going to shut down. Thus you can make most out of this freely available tool and can easily maintain your system to give you excellent performance.
Application download link :
You can freely download Lastchance from http://downloads.pcworld.com/pub/new/utilities/lchance.exe