Back up data using an affordable cloud service( Amazon S3)

               The online storage service is not just for developers. You can use it as a cheap online backup location for all your important files.

               If you are looking for a simple, inexpensive online Web storage service, opt for Amazon S3. Contrary to the popular belief, this service from Amazon is not just for developers. It is equally useful  for  home  users.  It  can  be  used  to store your data like music fi les, videos, pictures etc or you can use it to back up your local hard drive. Instead of folders, there are buckets in which you can store your fi les. You have to select a region where you wish to store the bucket. Amazon  S3  is  available  in  US  Standard, EU (Ireland), US West (Northern California), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. Select the region  closest  to  you  so  that  you  can save time and minimize cost. You can retrieve the fi les saved in the bucket via a unique developer assigned key. Amazon S3  is  also  very  cost  effective, as it functions on the policy that you pay only for what you consume.

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Adjust font size in the Firefox menu(Firefox)

                   You need to increase the size of the text in Firefox's menu and tool bars, and the Windows controls aren't enough.

                 You can increase the font size of the fi le menu items and reduce the font size of the bookmarks if you find  it  to  be  too  large. Firefox  uses  the Windows default settings, so you could increase the DPI value of the system font size. Alternatively, you can customize the required settings by creating a 'userChrome.css' file instead. You can find the sample file at ‘C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\
Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\j53h8g9g.default\chrome'. For example, to set the font size to 20 px for all elements of the Firefox interface, add the line '* {font-size: 20pt !important}'.You can also edit individual elements, but for that, you will have to locate the correct CSS selectors. For more samples of CSS codes, visit http://
www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html

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Configure multifunctional homepage(Chrome 4.x onwards)

                  In Chrome, the automatically generated selection for new tabs is really practical. Still, you can customize the homepage in the browser for quick selection and other functions. A free Chrome extension called Incredible Start page helps you confi gure your Chrome homepage.

                   You can customize Chrome to your liking with the free Incredible Start page extension, which you can easily find online. Once you reach the extensions page, confirm the installation and allow access  to  personal  data  by  clicking ‘Install’. Now open a new tab. To the left, you will see a list of the last closed tabs as  well  as  the  bookmarks.  To  the  right, the large field of ers a quick selection for a specific  folder  of  bookmarks.  To  change the displayed contents, navigate to the desired bookmark folder, and click ‘Show as main’ button at the base of the dialog. Other bookmarks can also be added to the right via drag-and-drop.
                 You can personalize colors and the background  image  by  clicking  ‘Theme Options’. To use your own picture, click ‘Custom’ under ‘Wallpapers’. In the next dialog box, enter the URL of the desired photo and confirm with ‘Save’. You can also use photos from Flickr as a background. You can add notes for quick access on the yellow notepad that you can send to G mail or to Google calendar with the allocated links. With the ‘Advanced Options’ link, you can change the number of the recently closed tabs  that  should  be  visible  on  the  page in the ‘Maximum recently closed tabs’ combination fi eld.

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