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		<title>The Nokia N8</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a weight of 135 grams and measuring 114 x 59 x13mm the Nokia N8 is Nokia&#8217;s newest smartphone. It has a battery life for 6 hours of talk time and 16 days on standby, it can also play 50 hours of music and 7 hours of video before you will need a recharge. It [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With a weight of 135 grams and measuring 114 x 59 x13mm the Nokia N8 is Nokia&#8217;s newest smartphone. It has a battery life for 6 hours of talk time and 16 days on standby, it can also play 50 hours of music and 7 hours of video before you will need a recharge. It is a 3G phone and can be bought in many different colors, such as blue, green, silver white, gray and orange. There will be more colors becoming available as time goes on.</p>
<p>The Nokia 8 features the most advanced smartphone software thanks to their operating system, the Symbian^3. There are also great gains in their multi-touch functions such as flick scrolling and pinch zoom in and zoom out. You can also tailor your Nokia N8 Smartphone more to your personality thanks to the many different software applications and add-ons that are now available.</p>
<p>With the hardware acceleration that the phone offers, you can work with both 2D and 3D graphics to make a more expedient journey through the features of your phone. Memory management is one of Symbian^3&#8217;s strong suits, enabling you to multi task much faster and run applications in tandem if you wish.</p>
<p>The N8 can also be used a a portable entertainment center, able to produce HD quality video and Dolby Surround Sound when you connect the phone to a home theater system. You can also connect to Web TV with the N8, allowing access to such channels as CNN, Paramount, E! and National Geographic through your phone. You also have access to a number of other content through Nokia&#8217;s Ovi Store.</p>
<p>Along with all these amazing features, the Nokia N8 gets better and better the more it &#8220;learns&#8221; what your likes and interests are. It will sync with those things that you like so that you can get a more personal experience through your smartphone. And, you can also make memories with the Nokia N8 because it also features a 12 megapixel camera with legendary Carl Zeiss lens optics. There is a built in Xenon flash with many features you would expect to find in higher quality digital cameras. You can also make and edit Hi-Def videos with your smartphone because all the editing software is included!</p>
<p>With social networking so popular these days the <a title="http://top10.com/mobilephones/deals/nokia_n8/" href="http://top10.com/mobilephones/deals/nokia_n8/">Nokia N8</a> has been built with it in mind. You can update your status, tweets, share pictures locations and view live feeds on Twitter and Facebook, all from one application you can access from the homescreen. You can synchronize your calendars on your phone with Facebook and you get free global Ovi Maps, with GPS navigation. The maps and GPS will cover you in over 70 countries around the world.</p>
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		<title>Guitar Course</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Far more very good online guitar instructions are sprouting all more than the garden of the web. At least it looks that way. Anything seems to be professional and solid till you hit that initial negative program that makes you question if any of these courses can genuinely teach you anything. Perhaps you have heard [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Far more very good online guitar instructions are sprouting all more than the garden of the web. At least it looks that way. Anything seems to be professional and solid till you hit that initial negative program that makes you question if any of these courses can genuinely teach you anything. Perhaps you have heard <a href="http://bestguitarcourse.net" target="_blank">Online Guitar Course</a>.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s always disheartening to put funds down on one thing and come across out that it was either a scam or the data was fundamentally worthless. Nevertheless, there are some good guitar programs out there and you can use these six elements to identify them simpler. If that&#8217;s the case please check  <a href="http://bestguitarcourse.net/jamorama-review" target="_blank">Online Guitar  Lessons</a>.</p>
<p>1. You&#8217;ll find the content to be obvious and detailed. As opposed to poorly written programs, nicely-believed lessons contain a great deal of detail and are quite easy to realize. Correct away if you want to know about chords, lead riffs, particular tunings, or neat tricks and the info doesn&#8217;t appear quick to recognize, it most likely won&#8217;t be that valuable to you.</p>
<p>2. Testimonials provide you with positive evaluations. It&#8217;s quite essential to hear what actual students or users of the particular item are saying ahead of you fit down any cash. That&#8217;s what testimonies are accessible for. Examine out a handful of quotes and study some feedback so you can recognize what must be provided in excellent on the web guitar lessons.</p>
<p>3. A refund is supplied if it&#8217;s not pretty what you anticipated. Just mainly because the lessons appear really tantalizing does not imply that they are an exact fit to what you would like to complete on your instrument. Make certain that you have the selection of getting your cash back in scenario some thing isn&#8217;t proper. Just as a speedy tip, negative guitar courses don&#8217;t usually present refunds.</p>
<p>4. The help is effective or at least adequate. Excellent online guitar lessons usually have assistance if anything in the program isn&#8217;t so excellent. Honestly, issues can break and there can be bugs in videos and audio files, so qualified businesses are ready for that sort of thing. Appear to see if the lessons you apply for have adequate consumer support in circumstance you knowledge any problems.</p>
<p>5. Your rate of comprehension matches the pace of the study course. Let&#8217;s face it. Not all guitarists are going to understand at the very same pace. You might progress quicker or slower than some guitar training course can present the material. Be confident that when you&#8217;re browsing around, that everything seems to be in your learning and comprehension level.</p>
<p>6. There&#8217;s no pressure to purchase more components. One particular identifier of a set of negative guitar instructions is their initiative to sell you further merchandise that you may well not necessarily have to have. If you think that you&#8217;re becoming pressured into getting anything that isn&#8217;t crucial to you studying the guitar, then you&#8217;re almost certainly not on a site that falls under the category of excellent online guitar instructions. Continue to visit <a href="http://bestguitarcourse.net/online-guitar-courses" target="_blank">Online Guitar  Course</a>.</p>
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		<title>Facts On Speedy Prototyping</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Speedy prototyping indicates the automatic output of physical items simply by the application of item industrialized technologies. The original approaches for&nbsp; <a href="http://prototypezone.com/" target="_blank">speedy prototyping</a> started to be accessible within the latter section of 1980s and also have been applied in order to make models plus prototyping elements. Today, they may be applied in a very wider compilation of programs and maybe they are additionally utilized in the create involving production-quality components throughout reasonably minor quantities. Several sculptors utilize the particular devices within the output of complex types with regard to great arts presentations.</p>
<p>The application of&nbsp; <a href="http://prototypezone.com/" target="_blank">additive manufacturing machinery</a> pertaining to speedy prototyping obtains personal system through patterns taken on the personal computer or even computer images software package, changes these people into trim, electronic, parallel cross-sections, and then this varieties sequential tiers around time the particular model have been completed. Your virtual and actual physical versions tend to be nearly comparable inside the WYSIWYG method.</p>
<p>By means of backing producing, these devices scans inside information through computer aided design here is your chance along with pieces down sequential layers involving natural powder, water as well as sheet resources as well as by way of that fashion builds up molds from your succession associated with cross sectors. These tiers of which match up with all the virtual combination parts coming from Virtual design designs are generally linked collectively as well as amalgamated immediately to make the particular finishing shape. The main advantage of item manufacturing is it&#8217;s capacity to form most of geometric functions or any design.</p>
<p>The typical data boundary involving the&nbsp; <a href="http://prototypezone.com/" target="_blank">CAD software</a> as well as the equipment is your data file structure involving STL. The actual STL record estimates are a percentage or even assembly if you use triangular in shape act. Scaled-down sides results in advanced good quality area. The output of product by means of modern strategies could possibly be done inside of time up to some length of time, based upon in the act utilized and in addition in the dimensions and complication in the product. Component techniques with regard to speedy prototyping can be capable of generate typically models inside few hours, even though it may differ extensively based upon inside the kind of gear becoming utilized and also the element as well as amount of designs being manufactured at the same time.</p>
<p>Several challenging free-form generation approaches employ a couple of supplies during the construction of elements. The main supplies are the element people and the next are the help materials (they carry overhanging capabilities during the construction). The actual assistance materials tend to be elimiator later simply by warmth or even melted through solvents or even normal water.</p>
<p>The most common treatment creating could possibly be more affordable inside manufacture associated with polymer bonded goods within higher numbers; nevertheless, ingredient creation could be quicker along with less costly when fabricating somewhat smaller portions associated with elements. Models associated with a model in 3d give creative designers and in addition belief development team the capability in order to produce parts as well as idea versions with the aid of desktop dimension imprinter.</p>
<p>Speedy prototyping at present can be joining the area throughout rapid manufacturing and is suspected simply by many professionals that can be your &#8220;next level&#8221; systems. To understand another recommendation of high-end systems, check out http://www.http://prototypezone.com.</p>
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		<title>Increase Firefox Speed and Decrease Firefox Memory Usage +20 Tips</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since Firefox is one of the most important tools of Web designers and also other internet users, and because of big mount of Firefox memory usage, I decided to write this article and make it visual for all to be more interesting. Well, if you have a laptop and want to work with Firefox, Photoshop, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="PSD to Wordpress" href="http://wpfrompsd.com" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-604" title="psd2wordpress" src="http://206.71.53.6/~tharmon/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/psd2wordpress1.png" alt="psd2wordpress" width="250" height="250" /></a>Since Firefox is one of the most important tools of Web designers and also other internet users, and because of big mount of Firefox memory usage, I decided to write this article and make it visual for all to be more interesting. Well, if you have a laptop and want to work with Firefox, Photoshop, Dream Weaver and … as web design’s tools, you may need many memory on your computers But as we know, it costs much expensive to upgrade your hardware and for laptop owners that would be a disaster if their laptop maximum Ram support doesn’t let them to add another Ram in order to have more memory. ( I’ve also wrote another article for laptop owners: <a title="32 useful tips to improve laptop performance" href="http://stayupdate.com/tips-tricks/32-useful-tips-to-improve-laptop-performance/167">32 Useful Tips To Improve Laptop Performance</a> )</p>
<p>In this article I am going to tell you how to decrease firefox memory usage and increase firefox speed. This article of mine has two parts. So, follow each part to the end to make your Firefox Faster and <a title="Reduce Firefox Memory Usage" href="#ReduceFirefoxMemoryUsage">Reduce your Firefox Memory Usage</a>:</p>
<h1>Make Firefox Faster +10 tips:</h1>
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<h2>1)</h2>
<p>Firefox is usually very polite! it just send a request to server and wait to receive a response before sending another request. To set Firefox to send multi request at once follow these steps #1 to #3:</p>
<p>Open Firefox as a blank page or a blank tab. Type <strong>about:config</strong> in the address bar:</p>
<p><img style="display: inline" title="Make-Firefox-faster-01" src="http://206.71.53.6/~tharmon/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/makefirefoxfaster011.gif" alt="Make-Firefox-faster-01" width="138" height="43" /></p>
<p>If you are seeing a warning page and the button <em><strong>I’ll be careful, I promise!</strong></em> like the picture below:</p>
<p><img style="display: inline" title="Make-Firefox-faster-02" src="http://206.71.53.6/~tharmon/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/makefirefoxfaster021.gif" alt="Make-Firefox-faster-02" width="640" height="150" /></p>
<p>press that button to see another part. In filter bar type: <strong>network.http.pipelining </strong>to find it under <strong>preference name</strong> column:</p>
<p><img style="display: inline" title="make-firefox-faster-03" src="http://206.71.53.6/~tharmon/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/makefirefoxfaster031.gif" alt="make-firefox-faster-03" width="640" height="104" /></p>
<p>As you see in the picture above, the default value is <strong>False</strong>. So, double click on it to change it to <strong>True:</strong></p>
<p><img style="display: inline" title="make-firefox-faster-04" src="http://206.71.53.6/~tharmon/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/makefirefoxfaster041.gif" alt="make-firefox-faster-04" width="640" height="70" /></p>
<h2>2)</h2>
<p>In the text area that is in front of filter bar, type:<strong> network.http.proxy.pipelining</strong>. and change it to <strong>True:</strong></p>
<p><img style="display: inline" title="make-firefox-faster 05" src="http://206.71.53.6/~tharmon/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/makefirefoxfaster051.gif" alt="make-firefox-faster 05" width="640" height="76" /></p>
<h2>3)</h2>
<p>Now find <strong>network.http.pipelining.maxrequests.</strong> Right click on it and click <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">M</span>odify</strong>:</p>
<p><img style="display: inline" title="make-firefox-faster-06" src="http://206.71.53.6/~tharmon/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/makefirefoxfaster061.gif" alt="make-firefox-faster-06" width="640" height="183" /></p>
<p>The default value you are going to see would be 4. So, change it to 8:</p>
<p><img style="display: inline" title="make-firefox-faster-07" src="http://206.71.53.6/~tharmon/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/makefirefoxfaster071.gif" alt="make-firefox-faster-07" width="423" height="185" /></p>
<h2>4)</h2>
<p>At the same page (about:config) Right click on a blank space and select: <strong>New –&gt; Boolean: </strong>(now you are making a Boolean value. Through next steps you need to make some Boolean values again. I mean you should type <strong>about:config</strong> in the address bar and hit Enter then right click on a blank space and select: <strong>New –&gt; Boolean</strong>)</p>
<p><img style="display: inline" title="make-firefox-faster-08" src="http://206.71.53.6/~tharmon/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/makefirefoxfaster081.gif" alt="make-firefox-faster-08" width="252" height="141" /></p>
<p>name it <strong>network.http.pipelining.firstrequest</strong> and press OK:</p>
<p><img style="display: inline" title="make-firefox-faster 09" src="http://206.71.53.6/~tharmon/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/makefirefoxfaster091.gif" alt="make-firefox-faster 09" width="414" height="162" /></p>
<p>Then set it’s value <strong>True:</strong></p>
<p><img style="display: inline" title="make-firefox-faster-10" src="http://206.71.53.6/~tharmon/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/makefirefoxfaster101.gif" alt="make-firefox-faster-10" width="368" height="208" /></p>
<h2>5)</h2>
<p>At the same page (about:config) Right click on a blank space and select: <strong>New –&gt; Integer: </strong>(now you are making an Integer value. Through next steps you need to make some Boolean values again. I mean you should type <strong>about:config</strong> in the address bar and hit Enter. Then right click on a blank space of the page and select: <strong>New –&gt; Integer</strong> )</p>
<p><img style="display: inline" title="make-firefox-faster-11" src="http://206.71.53.6/~tharmon/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/makefirefoxfaster111.gif" alt="make-firefox-faster-11" width="250" height="142" /></p>
<p>Name it <strong>nglayout.initialpaint.delay</strong> and press OK:</p>
<p><img style="display: inline" title="make-firefox-faster 12" src="http://206.71.53.6/~tharmon/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/makefirefoxfaster121.gif" alt="make-firefox-faster 12" width="413" height="160" /></p>
<p>Finally set it’s value to <strong>0</strong>:</p>
<p><img style="display: inline" title="make-firefox-faster-13" src="http://206.71.53.6/~tharmon/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/makefirefoxfaster131.gif" alt="make-firefox-faster-13" width="414" height="178" /></p>
<h2>6)</h2>
<p>Large and intricate web pages can take a while to download. Although Firefox doesn’t have any delay here but since in default it should shows you what it’s received every 0.12 seconds and this causes to increase loading the web pages. Well, to avoid this:</p>
<p>Just as like as step 5 make another Integer value name it <strong>content.notify.interval</strong> and set it’s value to <strong>500000</strong>. Pay attention to the value ( It is five hundred thousand and not fifty hundreds )</p>
<h2>7)</h2>
<p>Just like #4 make another Boolean value. Then create a value called <strong>content.notify.ontimer</strong> and set it’s value to <strong>True</strong>.</p>
<h2> <img src='http://www.stayupdate.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt='8)' class='wp-smiley' /> </h2>
<p>If you haven&#8217;t moved your mouse or touched the keyboard for 0.75 seconds then Firefox enters a low frequency interrupt mode, that means its interface becomes less responsive and your web page loads faster. Reducing the content switch threshold can improve performance, then, and it only takes a moment:</p>
<p>Make another Integer value. Name it <strong>content.switch.threshold</strong> click OK and set it’s value to <strong>250000</strong> (one fourth of a second) then click OK to finish the job for now.</p>
<h2>9)</h2>
<p>It is also possible to extend the last tip to user interface. Telling Firefox to ignore all user interface events until the current page has been downloaded, causes Firefox load web pages faster. (may this would be a little effective but it is recommended to test it for your browser and see how does it work for you):</p>
<p>Make an other Boolean value <strong>called content.interrupt.parsing</strong> and set it’s value to <strong>False</strong>.</p>
<h2>10)</h2>
<p>There are many unwelcome flash on many web pages. As we know this causes slowing down browsing. So, what is the solution? there is a very simple solution. That;s just installing a Firefox extension is named <strong>Flash Block</strong>. To download or install this Firefox extension click <a title="Block Flash to make firefox faster" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433">here</a>:</p>
<p><img style="display: inline" title="make firefox faster" src="http://206.71.53.6/~tharmon/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/makefirefoxfaster1.jpg" alt="make firefox faster" width="295" height="173" /></p>
<h2>11)</h2>
<p>As you know while you are browsing Firefox stores some script and images of the web pages in a local memory cache. And they can be retrieved faster if you open the same page. If you have plenty of Ram leave Firefox running to improve the performance.</p>
<p>Make another Integer value and name it <strong>browser.cache.memory.capacity</strong> and set it’s value to <strong>65536</strong>. Finally restart your browser to apply the changes and get large cache.</p>
<h2>12)</h2>
<p>There is an other helpful Firefox extension named <strong>FasterFox</strong>. Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay. To download or add it to your Firefox click <a title="make firefox faster using fasterfox" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9037">here</a>. But the way! to add it to your Firefox you need to sign in!</p>
<p><img style="display: inline" title="Faster firefox" src="http://206.71.53.6/~tharmon/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/fasterfirefox1.png" alt="Faster firefox" width="489" height="368" /></p>
<h2>13)</h2>
<p>The last tip I’m going to write about is using anohter Firefox extension named <strong>DownThemAll</strong>. This is the description I’ve seen about it:</p>
<p>This is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400% and it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time.</p>
<p>To download it or add it to your Firefox click <a title="faster download with firefox using this extension" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201">here</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://206.71.53.6/~tharmon/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/fasterdownloadfirefox1.gif"><img style="display: inline" title="faster-download-firefox" src="http://206.71.53.6/~tharmon/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/fasterdownloadfirefox-thumb1.gif" alt="faster-download-firefox" width="559" height="377" /></a></p>
<h1>Decrease Firefox Memory Usage:</h1>
<p>This is the second part of my article that is all about reducing Firefox memory usage. Well, I have tested all of these tips by myself with a Firefox 3 on a Windows OS and the result has been Great to me. Usually Firefox memory usage on a Windows OS is at least 50MB and at most 100MB and it depends on the mount of installed themes, plugins and extensions. But today you will experience working with Firefox using less than 50 percent of the early Firefox memory usage.</p>
<p>To understand my meaning better I have taken picture of my desktop. So, below you are going to see my Firefox memory usage before applying any tips of rest of this article:</p>
<p><img style="display: inline" title="Firefox-early-memory-usage" src="http://206.71.53.6/~tharmon/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/firefoxearlymemoryusage1.gif" alt="Firefox-early-memory-usage" width="470" height="559" /></p>
<p>As you see my Firefox memory usage is so near to the maximum reported Firefox memory usage and that is because of many installed plugins and Firefox extensions on Firefox of mine. At the end of this article I’ll show you my Firefox memory usage after applying all tips below. Easier and shorter tips are first and longer ones are at last:</p>
<h2>1) Restart Firefox</h2>
<p>Sometimes Firefox memory usages grows up more and more and you need to freed some memory to avoid Firefox using abnormal memory. Well, sometimes it would be useful to restart Firefox to freed some memory.</p>
<h2>2) Clear Firefox download history</h2>
<p>Open Firefox and then Go to:</p>
<p><strong>- Tools –&gt; Options –&gt; Privacy</strong></p>
<p>Finally just leave ‘Remember what I’ve downloaded’ unchecked and press OK.</p>
<p><img style="display: inline" title="reduce-firefox-memory-usage-02" src="http://206.71.53.6/~tharmon/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/reducefirefoxmemoryusage021.gif" alt="reduce-firefox-memory-usage-02" width="594" height="584" /></p>
<h2>3) Don’t open files into Firefox</h2>
<p>Opening files into Firefox needs many memory. To avoid this it is just enough to follow these steps:</p>
<p><strong>- Tools –&gt; Options –&gt; Applications</strong></p>
<p>Then set PDF files to be saved instead of being open into Firefox. Finally press OK.</p>
<p><img style="display: inline" title="reduce-firefox-memory-usage-01" src="http://206.71.53.6/~tharmon/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/reducefirefoxmemoryusage011.gif" alt="reduce-firefox-memory-usage-01" width="595" height="583" /></p>
<h2>4) Keep your Firefox Up to date</h2>
<p>It is really recommended to use newer version of every Firefox extensions, Themes\skins, Plugins and … That is because of improving newer extensions, plugins and themes about using memory. Don’t forget to keep these plugins up to date forever: Adobe reader, Shockwave, Java, Flash</p>
<h2>5) Set Firefox to use less memory upon minimize</h2>
<p>In default almost all software need less memory when you minimize them. But to set Firefox to work like this we should follow these steps:</p>
<p>In the address bar type <strong>about:config</strong> and press Enter then if you’re seeing a warning message press the button <strong>I’ll be careful, I promise! </strong>(<a href="#about_config">just as like as first tip at first part of this article</a>)</p>
<p>Then make a Boolean value and name it <strong>config.trim_on_minimize</strong> and set it’s value to <strong>True</strong>. ( <a href="#making_boolean">I’ve told you how to make a Boolean value here</a> ) Finally restart Firefox.</p>
<p>Thus you would be able to minimize Firefox upon you need more memory. After using this tip you’ll see that Sometimes Firefox memory usage comes down to just 8MB after minimizing! But when your return it into your desktop it’s memory usage grows slowly. Therefore this tip would be really helpful to freed more than 40MB of Ram at the moment.</p>
<h2>6) Set Firefox to have fixed size of memory usage</h2>
<p>In default Firefox uses a percentage of memory on your computer. Therefore if you have more memory, Firefox uses more memory. To avoid this in order to having a fixed size of memory usage for Firefox:</p>
<p>In the address bar type <strong>about:config</strong> and press Enter then if you’re seeing a warning message press the button <strong>I’ll be careful, I promise! </strong>(<a href="#about_config">just as like as first tip at first part of this article</a>)</p>
<p>In the new appeared window type <strong>browser.cache.memory.enable</strong> in the filter bar and change the value to <strong>True</strong>:</p>
<p><img style="display: inline" title="reduce-firefox-memory-usage-03" src="http://206.71.53.6/~tharmon/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/reducefirefoxmemoryusage031.gif" alt="reduce-firefox-memory-usage-03" width="640" height="70" /></p>
<p>Then make an Integer value and name it <strong>browser.cache.memory.capacity</strong>. ( <a href="#making_integer">I have told you how to make an Integer value here</a> )To set it’s value, you should work according to the mount of Ram on your computer. So, set it’s value according to the table below:</p>
<table style="text-align: center" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="472">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="133" valign="top">Installed Ram:</td>
<td width="133" valign="top">Value you should set:</td>
<td width="204" valign="top">Comment:</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="133" valign="top">256 MB</td>
<td width="133" valign="top">4096</td>
<td width="204" valign="top">also set it for less Ram</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="133" valign="top">512 MB</td>
<td width="133" valign="top">8192</td>
<td width="204" valign="top"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="133" valign="top">1 GB</td>
<td width="133" valign="top">16384</td>
<td width="204" valign="top">Like me!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="133" valign="top">2 GB</td>
<td width="133" valign="top">32768</td>
<td width="204" valign="top"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="133" valign="top">4 GB</td>
<td width="133" valign="top">65536</td>
<td width="204" valign="top">May be for Vostro 1510 owners!</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>So, just double the value as Ram doubles!</p>
<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> To restore the value to default change the value of <strong>browser.cache.memory.capacity</strong> to –1 ( I mean minus one ).</p>
<h2>7) Use RamBack Plugin</h2>
<p>This is a helpful Firefox plugin and this is the description I have read about it: ‘<em>RAMBack will cause Firefox to issue an internal notification to free up memory that is otherwise held for performance purposes</em>’</p>
<p>You can download this plugin or add it to your Firefox from <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=ramback&amp;cat=all">here</a>. If you are working with newer versions of Firefox, this would be the most recent version compatible with Firefox 3.0.7 that you can download it or add it to your Firefox from <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addons/versions/5972">here</a></p>
<h2> <img src='http://www.stayupdate.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt='8)' class='wp-smiley' /> Use Portable Firefox</h2>
<p>If having free memory is a critical problem for you it is recommended to use Portable Firefox and that is because of less Portable Firefox memory usage.</p>
<h2>How have been useful to reduce Firefox memory usage?</h2>
<p>As I promised you now I’m going to take a picture of my desktop to show you my Firefox memory usage after using the tips above ( Firefox memory usage when it’s maximize ):</p>
<p><img style="display: inline" title="firefox-less-memory-usage" src="http://206.71.53.6/~tharmon/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/firefoxlessmemoryusage1.gif" alt="firefox-less-memory-usage" width="469" height="559" /></p>
<p>As you see in the picture above I could decrease Firefox memory usage on my computer using the tips above to freed about 35MB.</p>
<p>So, This article finishes now and I hope you enjoy reading this article. I tried to make it visual and interesting to be more effective for you. Now Don’t forget to subscribe to my RSS feed to <strong>stay up to date</strong> via <strong>StayUpdate.com</strong></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this short tutorial I will tell you a cool tip to be able to hide your secure data without any software.</p>
<p>As you know, there are some softwares that can help you to make a hidden folder and there are many tricks that can help you to do this. While softwares need to the money and many tricks require complex manipulating to your registry.</p>
<p>In this short visual tutorial you will learn a simple trick to be able to make hidden folders and save your private files into invisible folders to keep them safe.</p>
<p>Just follow these 4 steps to make a hidden folder less than 15 seconds:</p>
<ol>
<li>Make a new folder:
<ul>
<li>Right click any where you like. Then select: <strong>New</strong> -&gt; <strong>Folder</strong> </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Rename your new folder:
<ul>
<li>As you know, Windows does not let you to have a nameless directory. But you can follow these steps to make a folder that has no name:
<ul>
<li>Right click on your new folder and select <strong>Rename</strong> (or select your folder and press F2 key). </li>
<li>Then press <strong>alt+255</strong> or <strong>alt+0160</strong> to have a nameless folder (like the picture below):              <br /><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="74" alt="a nameless folder" src="http://206.71.53.6/~tharmon/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/a-nameless-folder1.png" width="72" border="0" /> </li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Change the folder icon to a transparent one:
<ul>
<li>Right click on the folder and select <strong>Properties</strong> to properties window appears. </li>
<li>Click <strong>Customize</strong> tab and under <strong>Folder icons</strong> category press <strong>Change Icon</strong> button. </li>
<li>Select a transparent icon and then press OK. (like the picture below):         <br /><img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="244" alt="Transparent icon" src="http://206.71.53.6/~tharmon/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/transparent-icon1.png" width="204" border="0" /> </li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<p>Congratulation! Now you have a hidden directory on your Windows and others can not find it on your computer because it has no name and others can not see it because it is not visible now!</p>
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