We are Moving

Dear readers,
I am planning to move my blog from Blogger to a self hosted domain soon.
In life, there is always a need to move on to the next level. Blogging here was a great learning experience and I hope Blogging on the new domain
http://bthegeek.in   Be The Geek
will be equally fun and memorable.
Please visit the new blog  and stay ahead of your colleagues with the latest tips and tricks.
Admin,

Speed Up Firefox Browser

Firefox scores high when it comes to performance and speed.Firefox follows the internet standards by downloading, at the most, six files at a time. But with websites which have lot of Html and CSS codes and videos, almost all the browsers tend to consume time before assembling the web page and displaying it.  Here are a few tricks to speed up your Firefox . The number of downloads by Firefox can be changed easily.
1.Open Firefox.
2.In the address bar, type 'about:config', without the quotes and press enter.

Windows 7 Tips : How to disable balloon tips

In the Start Menu, if you hover your pointer over a program for a second , a little message is displayed in a fade  "balloon".  For programs that do not have this feature set up for their shortcut, the "balloon" just tells users where the program is located on their computer.This feature is useful for a beginning computer user. However, it can be another annoyance for more advanced users.
But you can always disable it, because you are an advanced user and not some newbie.
Here are the steps.

Windows 7 Tips : Hiding User folders.

In the Start Menu, user folders such as Documents, Music, Games etc are shown as links on the right side. These folders are created for each user and are customised to the usage pattern accordingly. For example, the music folder will show playlists that are created by the particular user. There is also a folder for each user, having the name of that user, which contains these folders within it.
Personally, I never use these links and have disabled them.
How to hide these shortcut links?