How to Optimize your Blog
As you use WordPress, you may notice that page loads are taking longer and the site seems to grind along. It turns out that junk data may be piling up and slowing down your site, right? Well, to get rid of these problems, I have found just the topic needed. According to Sizlopedia, this because of activating and deactivating plugins, making changes such as new categories etc.
Check out this post for some tips and plugins that can help you clean up and speed up your blog.
Connected Internet also has a list of links to articles that explain how to speed up your site.
Don’t forget to bookmark the following links!
Hope this little article helped you :).
Automatically Close the “non responding” program
When an application fails to respond during shutdown a dialog box is displayed prompting the user to either end it now or to wait. Enabling the value AutoEndTasks will take care of the non-responding application without user intervention. This is often referred to as “Force Exitâ€ÂÂÂÂ.
Now, the tutorial.. :)
To Implement for All Users
[Start] [Run] [Regedit]
Registry Key: HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop
Data Type: REG_SZ [String Value] // Value Name: AutoEndTasks
Modify/Create the Value Name [AutoEndTasks] according to the Value Data listed below.
Value Data: [0 = AutoEndTasks Disabled / 1 = AutoEndTasks Enabled]
Exit Registry and Reboot
To Implement for Individual Users
[Start] [Run] [Regedit]
Registry Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
Data Type: REG_SZ [String Value] // Value Name: AutoEndTasks
Modify/Create the Value Name [AutoEndTasks] according to the Value Data listed below.
Value Data: [0 = AutoEndTasks Disabled / 1 = AutoEndTasks Enabled]
Exit Registry Editor and Reboot.
This works well in Windows XP, but I’m not sure about Vista.
If there is a better way, do let me know about it. :)
Create you own Google logo
This tutorial will teach you how to make the Google logo. The final result is shown below.
1. Create a new document; 300px x 120px.
2. Use the text tool and type Google onto your document. This tutorial uses the font catull, but if you don’t have it on your computer, you can use Times New Roman which also works fine, and looks very similar.
3. Now we need to add colours to Google. Highlight each letter, and change its colour as state below.
G #1645AE
o #D62408
o #EFBA00
g #1645AE
l #007D08
e #D62408
Remove shortcut arrow from desktop icons
Here’s how you can remove those shortcut arrows from your desktop icons in Windows XP. This is a simple, neat trick. You need to know how to use Registry Editor, and you are done :)
Just follow the simple steps below to remove the arrow:
1. Start regedit.
2. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTlnkfile
3. Delete the IsShortcut registry value.
You may need to restart Windows XP for the changes to take affect.
Enjoy! :D
Multi Google Talk
If you’ve got many Gmail accounts and don’t want to keep logging on and off them every time you switch, a simple command line parameter in the Google Talk shortcut can solve your problem.
Doing this is very simple. Create a new Google Talk shortcut on your desktop, leave the original intact.
- Right click on this shortcut and choose Properties. The Target box will show you the path of the EXE for Google Talk – something like “C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exeâ€ÂÂÂÂ
- Change this to: “C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe†/nomutex
and click OK.
Now you can login with as many Gmail accounts as you like.
Enjoy! :D
Fast Windows XP Shutdown
Whenever you shut down your computer, it takes a lot of time in closing all the running applications.And worse, if they stop responding, then you have to click either end task or wait for windows to shut it down.
To get rid of this problem, use the following registry hack to fix this :). This hack automatically shuts the non-responding, annoying applications instantly and without any interruption.
Orkut Tricks, The Ultimate Collection
Below is a list of all the Orkut tricks I gathered, which are all available at Orkut Trix. Hope you like them. :)
