Some computing tips to make your day on your computer even smoother.

Hard Disk Drive platters. What capacity is this?

Hard Disk Drive platters. What capacity is this?

  1. If you have two Firefox windows open you may drag the tab from one window onto the new tab window on the other window and the tab will be added to the second Firefox window.
  2. Do not install the Facebook dislike extension for Google Chrome. I installed that and I got some adware in my browser. Once I removed the extension the adware was gone. I think this is the offending extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dislike-on-facebook/dalglnklbdkfhihfcagbcdbnmlhcdpha?hl=en-GB.
  3. Facebook makes a very good image host if you want to hotlink an image on your own website and you want to save bandwidth. Just upload the image and view it in a large size and then right-click the image and click open in new tab and get the URL that way. Then you can put the image on your website and show it off without having to upload the image to your own website as Facebook allows hotlinking.
  4. To save an image from Firefox to the desktop easily, just drag the image from the Firefox window to the desktop and it will be saved there. This works on Linux and Windows.
  5. I have been having problems getting to my Youtube inbox with the Chromium browser so I created a bookmark with this link: http://www.youtube.com/inbox. That did the trick.
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I am a computer enthusiast that has always been interested in maintaining and upgrading computer hardware. I was born on a farm and lived there for 13 years before moving into town. I was always interested in technology and my father always gave me good encouragement for developing my knowledge and interest in tinkering with computers. He was using a computer on the farm but that was in the very late 80`s and late 90`s. Seeing what a computer could do always fascinated me and then I knew that is what I wanted to do. The first time I used Linux was Red Hat 6.2 installed off a single CDROM and I was amazed that you did not need to install any more drivers on my old Intel Celeron machine to be able to enjoy a nice 24BPP desktop and use the GIMP to edit photos and enjoy playing the old Linux games like Xbill. Then a while later I tried Mandrake Linux 9.2 and I was hooked. It came with so much software and was very easy to use as well. Then Mandrake Linux 10 and on through FreeBSD, Debian 3.0, Debian 3.1 Suse Linux 9.2, Suse 10 and onto the Ubuntu distributions although I am using Fedora Core 15 and the Gnome 3 desktop at the moment.

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