How do you launch the Run dialog? Using Start Menu -> Run? Or using the shortcut keys Win + R?
What if you wished to have a shortcut to launch this dialog box in your desktop?
Well, it is really simple to create such a shortcut. You just have to drag and drop "Run" from the start menu onto desktop. This creates a shortcut on double clicking which pops up your Run dialog.
Note: Works in the new Start Menu of XP only (not in classic menu).

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A lot of people are complaining that Firefox has become bloated with its third version and they would very well like to go back to Firefox 2. Though we, the folks at DailyGyan, do not share the same opinion, we would still like to help you by showing how to downgrade from FF3 to FF2.

Related: Ultimate guide on how to get old versions of software.

Before beginning your downgrade, we would like to warn you that the extensions you have installed in FF3 will no longer work in Firefox 2, in most cases. But go ahead, see which all are not working and be ready to reinstall the ones that are not compatible.
OK, let's start. Here is what you should do:

1. Create a back up of your profile directory
   See this link to find where your profile directory is. Then create a copy of this directory in some convenient location. Read the link for more information.
   
   
2. Download Firefox 2
   This can be a bit daunting. That's because the Firefox site no longer gives you a link to download Firefox 2. The site talks about nothing but Firefox 3.
   Or is it? Get Firefox 2 from http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.14/win32/en-US/. Linux users, you are smart enough to guess where Linux version would be, right?
   
   
3. Uninstall Firefox 3
   You can uninstall FF3 using the Control Panel -> Add/Remove programs or by running the [Firefox Installation Directory]\uninstall\helper.exe
   Select not to remove your profile information.
   Linux/Ubuntu users you need to run sudo apt-get purge firefox-3.0
   
   
4. Install Firefox 2
   Though most of your addons will be rendered un-usable, you can still have your bookmarks and passwords list saved. Ensure that the old bookmarks.html and key3.db files are still in the profile directory. Rename signons3.txt to signons2.txt.
   Now, install Firefox 2, and if all went correct you will have your bookmarks and saved passwords intact in your Firefox 2. Now it's time to reinstall all addons that Firefox have marked as not-compatible.
   Ubuntu users need to run sudo apt-get install firefox-2 to install Firefox 2. For other distributions, download the tar file from the above said Mozilla Releases site and untar it to a suitable location.
   

Do you know any easier method to get this done? Did you find any stumbling blocks? Share with us in the comments.

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Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is one of the goodies that comes pre-installed with Windows XP. We, the folks at DailyGyan, simply love this piece of software. Why, you ask? Well that’s because of its dead simple interface, absolute zero learning curve that’s required and finally because of such a sweet and ‘creative’ name that Microsoft managed to give it.

Well, in today’s Daily Feature, we give you some ways to super-charge your Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. Read along.

1. Create a shortcut to windows picture and fax viewer.
   If you want to have a shortcut for the Picture and Fax Viewer, just like you have for other programs in your start menu or desktop, here is what you should do:
   
   • Right click on the folder you want to place the shortcut and select New –> Shortcut.
   • Type in rundll32.exe %SystemRoot%\system32\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen and hit enter.
   • Type in ‘Windows Picture and Fax Viewer’ as the name of the shortcut.
   • Right click the new shortcut and select Properties.
   • Click on ‘Change Icon'. Type in %SystemRoot%\system32\shimgvw.dll and hit enter.
   • Select a suitable icon.
   Now, if you double click on this shortcut, the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer comes up with the preview pane saying "No preview available". You just have to drag your photos to this pane to display them.
   
   
2. Change the slide show duration in Picture and Fax viewer.
   You can have a slide show of all photos in a folder by opening any one of the photos and then clicking the 'start slide show' button (shortcut - F11). By default, the duration between changing the pictures is 5 seconds. Unfortunately, this utility doesn't expose any settings, by which the user can change this value of 5 seconds. This will require some tampering with the Windows Registry and for the faint of heart, we have also provided a utility which does this automatically for you.
   
   • In the Run dialog (Start -> Run), type regedit and hit enter.
   • Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellImageView
   • Create a new DWORD (Right click and select New DWORD) with name as Timeout
   • Double click on this newly created DWORD and give a value you desire for the slide show duration as a millisecond value. For example, if you want a duration of 6 seconds between each photos, enter 6000 as the value (Remember to select base as Decimal).

   Those who wishes to have a more simple and straight forward solution can download this little vbs script. On double clicking, it asks for the timeout seconds desired. Enter this value in the text box and hit enter. (Note: you need to enter the value in seconds and not milliseconds).
   

3. Convert Picture and Fax Viewer into an Image Editor.
   

   
   

   One of the fields where our beloved tool fall behind is image editing. It does image displaying in a pretty much smart way but fumbles at the slightest request to edit some photos. Of course, you can rotate the image in what ever direction you want, but that's it. There is nothing more to be expected of it.
   Well, that is not the case anymore. With a freeware called Photo Toolkit, you can extend the capabilities of Windows Picture and Fax Viewer to make it your dream photo editor.  You can get the features list here and download it here.

What other tips and tricks have you found about Windows Picture and Fax Viewer? Share with us in the comments.

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One of the main reason why Firefox has been so successful, is that you can tweak it to match your needs. Though there are another 12 million Firefox users out there, still you can make your Firefox installation unique, matching your personality.
This short guide gives you a myriad of options that can be tweaked in Firefox 3. Read along.

1. Auto complete in the address bar as you type an address.
   Majority of the people out their seems to have a love-hate relationship with the Firefox3's new address bar (that Mozilla likes to call as the awsome bar). In a humble attempt to tame this address bar we give you some hacks that can reform the smart bar to become the real smart bar.
   
   • Enter about:config into the address bar and hit enter.
   • Click on "I'll be careful, I promise!" button.
   • Enter browser.urlbar.autoFill into the Filter text box. Double click on that preference value and change the value to true to enable autofill.
   Now, as you type in an address, you can see that not only the drop down list is shown, but the address bar itself is auto completed for you.
   
   
2. Enabling spell check in text-fields
   By default Firefox does spell checking only in multi-line text boxes. If you want the Firefox to spell check the single line text entry fields too, this hack is for you:
   • Enter about:config into the address bar and hit enter.
   • Click on "I'll be careful, I promise!" button.
   • Enter layout.spellcheckDefault into the Filter text box. Double click on that preference value and change the value to 2.
     
   
   
   
3. Tweaking the full screen mode
   By default Firefox 3 hides the location bar and tab bar when you enter the full screen mode. Here is how to disable this behavior.
   • Enter about:config into the address bar and hit enter.
   • Click on "I'll be careful, I promise!" button.
   • Enter browser.fullscreen.autohide into the Filter text box. Double click on that preference value and change the value to false to disable hiding of location and tab bar.
   • If you just want to disable the hiding animation, set browser.fullscreen.animateUp to 0.
     
   
   
   
4. Turn On Color Profile Support
   
   The Good news is that (unlike Firefox2) Firefox3 contains a built-in advanced color profile support, which makes Firefox 3 compete easily with any desktop image viewers/editors in terms of color support. The bad news is that this mode is disabled by default. This is what you should do to enable the color profile support.
   • Enter about:config into the address bar and hit enter.
   • Click on "I'll be careful, I promise!" button.
   • Enter gfx.color_management.enabled into the Filter text box. Double click on that preference value and change the value to true to enable color profile support.
     
   
   
   
5. Always display the go button
   By default Firefox 3 displays the Go button only when you are editing the address in the location bar. This is how you can display it always.
   • Open userChrome.css file in your profile directory using notepad.
   • Add the following line to the end of the file: #go-button { visibility: visible !important; }
   • Restart Firefox.
   If you don't want to tamper with the userChrome.css file, here is an extension that does the same for you.
   
   
   
6. Make the location bar display only typed addresses
   Dont want the location bar to show entries in your bookmark or history? Here is what you should do.
   • Enter about:config into the address bar and hit enter.
   • Click on "I'll be careful, I promise!" button
   • Enter browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped into the Filter text box. Double click on that preference value and change the value to true.
   
   
   
7. Change the number of suggestions displayed in the Location bar menu
   By default Firefox 3 displays upto 12 results in the drop down list as you type an address. Here is how to change this number.
   • Enter about:config into the address bar and hit enter.
   • Click on "I'll be careful, I promise!" button.
   • Enter browser.urlbar.maxRichResults into the Filter text box. Double click on that preference value and change the value to any positive number.
   
   
   
8. Hide RSS feed icon from the location bar
   If you feel that little rss icon is taking up your precious screen real estate, you can easily disable it.
   • Open userChrome.css file in your profile directory using notepad.
   • Add the following line to the end of the file: #feed-button[feeds] { display: none !important; }
   • Restart Firefox.
   
   
   
9. Hide the star icon from the location bar
   You may be a keyboard junkie or you may be too used up to the old ways that you'll never use the star icon sitting up in the location bar. If you never use it, why let it be there? Here is how to remove the star icon from location bar.
   • Open userChrome.css file in your profile directory using notepad.
   • Add the following line to the end of the file: #star-button {display: none !important;}
   • Restart Firefox.
   
   
   
10. Disable single-click-select-all in the location bar.
    One of the real pain in the neck feature of Firefox is that it automatically selects the entire address in the location bar if you click anywhere near it. You just wanted to correct a typo in the address, but instead of putting the cursor at the clicked location, Firefox selected the entire address. Without looking into the screen, you corrected the typo and now the entire address is gone. Now buddy, start typing again, says Firefox. Here is how to make the behavior more 'humane'.
    • Enter about:config into the address bar and hit enter.
    • Click on "I'll be careful, I promise!" button.
    • Enter browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll into the Filter text box. Double click on that preference value and change the value to false.
    
    
    
11. Reduce the size of the back button
    
    This may not be that evident at first, but will soon reveal to be a no-brainier once you know it. This is all you have to do: Right-click on Firefox's toolbar, and choose Customize. In the dialog box, select "Use small icons."
    
    
12. Disable blinking text
    Sorry, Mr. Blinking Text, you are not welcome. Here is how to stop all blinking text:
    • Enter about:config into the address bar and hit enter.
    • Click on "I'll be careful, I promise!" button.
    • Enter browser.blink_allowed into the Filter text box. Double click on that preference value and change the value to false.
    
    
    

What other tricks and tips have you found on Firefox 3? Share with us in the comments.

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Firefox 3 is ready for download. Get it here.

And if you download it today itself, you’ll also help Firefox set a Guinness world record.

Download Firefox 3 | New Features | Video Tour

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Simon Jansen seems to have a lot of free time (and patience), because he is the creator of Asciimation - an ASCII animation of the full Star Wars Episode iV movie.

If you want to see it in a command prompt, run the following command (from a command prompt. Start –> Run –> Enter cmd and hit enter) or simply click here.

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

If you want to see the same in a browser, head on to the Asciimation website.

Here are some screen shots:

 

 

Telnet Link | Asciimation website

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If you are looking for a clean and fast way to take thumbnail screenshots of a webpage, look nowhere other than SnapCasa.

SnapCasa creates thumbnail of websites in four sizes Large, Medium, Small and Thumbnail. SnapCasa is free to use and you can try it out without registration. (The makers of the web site decided to keep the purpose of the register dialog and the extra features that one will get by registering, a real secret.)

SnapCasa | [Source]

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Lee Lefever has done it again. This time, they present you a very good explanation of how Social Media works. Using ice cream!

 

Related:

How to explain what is social bookmarking to your mom.

How to explain what is twitter to your mom.

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Sage was one of the extensions that we missed a lot, since we moved to Firefox 3. Sage was last updated on January 2007 and since then the lead developer Peter Andrews and his team seems to have lost interest in the project.

Now comes the good news. A good guy named Mike, have ported the Sage to Firefox 3 under the name Sage-Too. Thank you Mike.

Sage is an excellent RSS reader addon for Firefox. This is how the sage developers describe it.

Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed reader extension for Mozilla Firefox. It's got a lot of what you need and not much of what you don't.

And this sentence is true to core. You get only what you want in Sage. No extra fat, no unwanted bells and whistles.

Sage-Too have retained all existing features of Sage. So if  you are interested to know the features of Sage-Too, the Sage features page ought to be your destination.

 

Get Sage-Too | Developer Blog

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Are you waiting eagerly for the release of Firefox 3?

We bet you are. So are 80,731 Americans, 14, 457 Canadians, 13,656 Russians, 6,889 Indians and a total of 492,238 people worldwide.

Huh!, what about the numbers, you ask? This is the number of people who have pledged to download Firefox 3, on the day it is released.

Firefox 3 is currently in Release Candidate 1 (RC1) version. There will an RC2 coming soon and if there are no major bugs found in RC2, it will be released as Firefox 3 somewhere in June. And, the Firefox team have a really big plan for this day...

Firefox team is all set to create a new Guinness World Record of the most software downloaded in24 hours. If you are interested to try out Firefox 3, they will get you informed immediately when the release is ready for download, so that you too can contribute to help Firefox get the Guinness World Record.

Just visit this page, click on 'Pledge Now', give your country name and email, and they will get you notified when Firefox 3 is released.

Firefox3 World Record | Download Firefox3 RC1 | Firefox3 Features

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You can always download your favorite Linux distribution from the Internet.
But what to do when you don't have an Internet connection or your existing connection is either too slow or too costly? Here, we give you a list some distribution vendors who will send you CDs or DVDs of their latest Linux version to you, absolutely free of cost!.

1. Ubuntu
   

   

   Ubuntu is the most user-friendly Linux OS out there, whose popularity is growing day by day. You can get a free CD of the desktop and Server edition of the latest Ubuntu distro shipped to your home (wherever it is, in this world) absolutely free of cost, through the Ubuntu Shipit program . All you have to do, is to create a free account at Launchpad and then use this link to get as many CDs as you want.

   
   
2. Fedora

   
   

   Fedora is a community supported, RedHat sponsored Linux distro. You can get a free DVD of fedora through the Free Media Program, which is a volunteer driven program that aims to distribute Fedora Core DVDs for free to individuals. Visit this link, and use the 'Request Form' to get yourself a DVD of the latest fedora.
   

3. Oracle Enterprise Linux

   
   

   Oracle is giving free media of their Linux distribution under the name 'Unbreakable Linux'. You need to visit this page and register with your shipping address. Oracle will send the 2 DVD set to this address.
   

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Microsoft Office 2007 introduced the revolutionary 'Ribbon' interface to windows.

Though this revamped user interface has been widely praised upon, it has also received some serious criticisms. Especially, the folks like the PC World, accusing the ribbon interface to crowd the work area, making it difficult for laptop users and others, who are still stuck with a low resolution monitor to work with.

Though we love the new Office 2007 interface, we do see that there is a pinch of truth in these accusations. The Ribbon is fat. Now, how do you take the ribbon on a diet?
Read on.

The procedure to make the ribbon slim is stupidly simple. Just double click on any one of the ribbon tabs. The ribbon bar shrinks to show just the tabs and stays in this minimized form until you double click on any tab and maximize it again.

Instead of double clicking, you can also right click the ribbon and select 'Minimize the Ribbon'. This trick works across all products in the Microsoft Office 2007 suite including Outlook 2007.

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The popular online office suite Zoho, recently announced that the are opening their gates to all Google users. Anyone with a Google account will be able to login to Zoho, without having to register at Zoho. A pretty nifty trick to attract a wide base of customers and not suprisingly this movement was widely appreciated by all.

But what about the Google Apps users?
It seems that they are not left behind either, just that the method to login to Zoho is not just straight forward for them.

Google Apps users, this is what you should do to login to Zoho.

1. Login to your Google Apps domain.
2. Go to Zoho login and select Google Sign-In.
3. Confirm that you want to use your Google Apps account
4. Grant Access to login to Zoho.

Just remember that you need to login to Google Apps before trying to sign into Zoho. Else, Zoho simply assumes that you want to sign-in using a normal Google account.

[Source]

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One of the most appreciated change that Firefox 3 brought about was the revamped Addon Manager.

Addon manager, now have a "Get Addons" tab which displays a list of addons that Mozilla recommends for you. By default the Addons manager displays 5 recommended addons. This hack explains how you can increase the number of recommended addons.

1. Enter about:config into the address bar and hit enter.
2. Hit "I''ll be carefull. I promise!" button.
3. Type extensions.getAddons.maxResults into the filter field and change its value from the default 5 to a higher number.

Note: It seems that Firefox or the Mozilla site imposes a restriction by which only a maximum of 8 recommended addons can be queried. Even if you set the above value to a number greater than 8, you'll get only 8 recommended addons.

Happy Firefoxing.

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Acid2 and Acid3 are two test suites, that check how well modern browsers follow the web standards.

And, you probably have heard that Firefox 3 passes Acid2 test, thanks to the new Gecko 1.9 rendering engine used in it. Now, what about Thunderbird 3?

Thunderbird 3 alpha (code named as shredder), released a few days back,  also uses the same Gecko 1.9 rendering engine. So naturally, one would expect to see the same result as Firefox 3, right? Well, you are in for a surprise.

How to perform Acid2 and Acid3 test in Thunderbird 3 Alpha?

1. Launch Thunderbird 3. Select Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Config Editor.
2. Click "I''ll be carefull, I promise!" button.
3. Enter javascript.allow.mailnews into the filter text box and change its value to true.
4. Close the options window.
5. Now select Tools -> Error Console.
6. Enter the following text into the code text box (as a single line, no line breaks) and hit enter. The corresponding page will get loaded into the message display area of Thunderbird.

For Acid2 Test:

var threePane = Components.classes['@mozilla.org/appshell/window-mediator;1'].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIWindowMediator).getMostRecentWindow("mail:3pane");gBrowser = threePane.document.getElementById("messagepane");gBrowser.loadURI("http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html#top", null, null);

For Acid3 Test:

var threePane = Components.classes['@mozilla.org/appshell/window-mediator;1'].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIWindowMediator).getMostRecentWindow("mail:3pane");gBrowser = threePane.document.getElementById("messagepane");gBrowser.loadURI("http://acid3.acidtests.org", null, null);

Result

Acid2: Thunderbird 3 Alpha failed the Acid2 test. Yes Firefox, we know you are laughing. Your cousin just failed. Instead of giving us a laughing smiley we got the below result. Failed!

Acid3: Thunderbird 3 Alpha got a score of 67/100. This however was better than Firefox (61/100) and IE (in which Acid3 was a complete disaster).

 

 

So, Thunderbird3 failed in Acid2 test. Remember that Firefox 3, IE8, Safari had all passed Acid2. In Acid3 test, it got a score that is slightly above other players, but is still not a score to boast about.What does these results prove?

Nothing! Thunderbird 3 has a long way to go and it's still in the embryonic form. There is a lot of work still to be done to make shredder into Thunderbird 3. Cheers to the Mozilla Messaging team for giving us Thunderbird 3 Alpha. (But guys, we really do expect Acid2 and Acid3 compatibility in the Final TB 3.0. Please don't disappoint us :) )

Download Thunderbird 3 Alpha (shredder) here.

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If you are asked a question like - How will you find whether the Linux distribution installed in a PC is Ubuntu or Fedora, what would be your answer?

Before answering something like Ubuntu is orange while fedora will look blue, remember that Linux is the most customizable operating system out there. You can modify the look and feel of the system to any extend, limited only by your imagination. You can make a Fedora installation look like Ubuntu and vice-versa.

How would you know what Linux distribution you are running?

Take a terminal and enter the below command:

lsb_release -a

(Note - You can use this command to know whether you have successfully updated to Ubuntu 8.04 or not after a system upgrade)



This will give you all information like the Distribution name, version, code name etc.

Note that this utility simply reads out the contents of the file /etc/lsb-release. So simply printing this file will also give the same information.



In case the above utility is not installed, try

cat /proc/version

which will give you the details of the installed kernel and the distribution name.

Happy Linuxing.

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Want to get easily noticed in social sites? Convert your avatar into an amazing ASCII art to make heads turn.

Here we give you 5 web applications that allow you to convert an image in your hard disk or internet into an ascii art.

1. AsciiConvert
   
   
   
   AsciiConvert is one among the best image to text converter out there. It has a wide range of options to vary the image quality, an option to export the ascii art as a PNG image, a gallery where you can view art created by other users and an option to get a direct link to your ascii art for use in other sites/forums.
   


2. IMG2TXT
   
   
   Almost same as the above service, except that it lacks many of the features like a gallery and exporting to PNG image. But it have some extra bells and whistles - you can mention which alphabets to use, what is the desired width etc.
   
   
3. ASCII Art Generator
   
   
   
   An extremely simple image to ASCII converter. There are just two options to mention: whether you want 'Black on White' or 'White on Black'. Upload a picture and you are done.
   



4. ascii.mastervb.net
   
   
   
   As can be seen from the above image, this tool produces the best result if you want the output to be in HTML rather than pure ascii text. This is also the only service which allows you to type some text and convert it into ASCII art.
   



5. ASCII-O-MATIC
   
   


A flash based Ascii art generator which looks promising but lacks usability. The 'Upload' and 'Generate Html' options are using pop-up windows which Firefox was happy to block. Moreover it accepts only JPG files of 60x50 px. What distinguish this from the others is the option to draw the image in ASCII blocks, which creates a more realistic picture. Of all, we found this one to be the best for creating really cool avatar pics.

An ascii art can make your signature look cool. You can copy paste an ascii art into a forum when image uploading is restricted by the forum admins.
We at DailyGyan is currently running short of idea waves. So what other uses can you imagine for an ascii art? Tell us in the comments.

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If you have a wide screen monitor, the Firefox's sidebar is definitely worth a shot.



Firefox sidebar occupies about one-eighth of your screen width, sits in the left portion of the screen and can carry an always visible web page, no matter what tab your are currently browsing on.

Even though you can load any web site into the sidebar, sites that are customized for viewing in a mobile phone browser or iPhone works best. This is because the width of the Firefox sidebar almost matches with the width of a mobile phone screen, giving the perfect experience.

Here we give you a collection of sites and their address, that you can load up in your sidebar. But first, here is what you should do to get a page loaded in sidebar.

1. If the link given is of an extension, just install that extension to get the sidebar.
2. Bookmark the link (Right click the link and select "Bookmark This Link").
3. Right click on the bookmark, select properties.
4. Check the box named "Load this bookmark in the sidebar".
5. Now click on the bookmark to load it into sidebar.

Sites to load into Firefox sidebar.

1. Google Search: http://www.google.com/m


2. Google Chat: http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/client
   


3. Google Reader: http://www.google.com/reader/i/
   


4. iGoogle: http://www.google.com/ig/mobile
   


5. Google Docs: http://docs.google.com/m
   


6. Gmail: http://m.gmail.com
   


7. Twitter: http://m.twitter.com/
   


8. Facebook chat: http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php
   


9. Delicious: Delicious Extension, which opens a sidebar.
   


10. Remember The Milk: http://m.rememberthemilk.com/
    


11. Flickr: http://m.flickr.com/
    


12. Orkut: http://m.orkut.com/
    


13. Facebook: http://iphone.facebook.com/
    


14. MySpace: http://mobile.myspace.com/
    


15. Digg: http://digg.com/iphone
    

How To Load Any Website Into Sidebar?

You can convert any web page into its mobile version using the Google Mobilizer. Just enter the website you wish to see in the sidebar and hit enter. Google will give you the address you need to bookmark and load in the sidebar.

Bookmark this link to load DailyGyan.com in your sidebar.

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The whole Internet, the forums, chat rooms, Google groups, blogs are filled with one question: How do I install this xyz.ttf font without having administrator privileges? There seems to be no answer.

Well, not any more.

When you try to install a font without having proper permissions to the C:\Windows\Fonts directory, this is the error message you get:

The SKETCHY.TTF file is currently being used and cannot be replaced.
Wait until Windows is finished using the file, and then try again.

This one is a classic among all the ambiguous and disorienting error messages that Windows throws in our way. It says that the file is in use, but if you get this error you can be pretty sure that it is a permission issue.

How to Install Fonts in Windows as a Normal User?

Windows have made it extremely difficult for normal users to install fonts. This is because the C:\Windows\Fonts where all the Fonts live peacefully is writable only by Administrator. Either the administrator need to give you write permission to this folder (which will not be that feasible in a corporate environment) or you will have to read along this post till the end.

A good guy called Tsukasa have cooked up a small command line utility which can add and remove fonts to your font cache. This addition is however temporary, which last only till the system is rebooted. Therefore this utility need to be run each time you start your system. Looks like lot of work? We'll help you make it a one time business.

1. Download RegisterFonts utility from here.
   
2. Unzip it to a suitable location. Say, D:\myutils.
   
3. Download all the fonts (the .ttf files) that you want to install into this location.
   
4. Right click on RegisterFont.exe and select Create Shortcut.
   
5. Right click on this shortcut and select Properties. Append the string add font1.ttf font2.ttf to the Target field. Remember to replace font1, font2 etc with the name of the fonts that you have downloaded to this folder. In my case I have added two fonts Blazed.ttf and sketchy.ttf. My shortcut properties looks like:
   
   
   
6. Drag this newly created (and edited) shortcut to Start Menu -> All Programs -> Startup folder, so that this gets executed each time the system is rebooted.

Once you run the shortcut, you can see that the fonts you added are available to you in all Windows applications like notepad and MS Word.

Graphic designers who experiment with a lot of fonts would also like to remove fonts at runtime. For this just take a command prompt, navigate to D:\myutils and run the command: RegisterFont.exe rem fontname.ttf.

Thanks Tsukasa | Download RegisterFont | Download Source

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If you have been brave enough to try out Firefox 3, you might have noticed that a lot of extension in the Firefox addons site is unavailable to you.
This is because those extensions were made for Firefox 2 and are hence not supported in FF3. So, the good folks at Mozilla have completely disabled downloading of such addons, if you browse to the addon page using Firefox 3.

We however disagree with the Mozilla developers. We have found that a large number of Firefox 2 addons function seamlessly in Firefox 3 and it is really cruel to lock out FF3 users from enjoying those extensions.

How to download Firefox 2 extensions using Firefox 3 From The Firefox Addons Site?

1. Take Firefox. Type about:config into the address bar and hit enter.
2. Click on "I'll be careful, I promise!" button.
3. Right click and select New -> String.
4. Enter the preference name as general.useragent.override and the value as Firefox/2.0.0.14

Now go to an addons page like this and see whether the "Download Now" option is enabled.

How to enable installing Firefox 2 extensions in Firefox 3

We have already covered this here, but reproducing it here for making this post complete.
Even though, you are able to download FF2 addons using the above method, your Firefox 3 will resist installing incompatible addons unless you perform the below steps.

1. Type about:config into Firefox's address bar and click the "I'll be careful, I promise!" button.
2. Right-click anywhere. Choose New -> Boolean. Make the name of your new config value extensions.checkCompatibility and set it to false.
3. Make another new boolean pair called extensions.checkUpdateSecurity and set the value to false.
4. Restart Firefox.

That's it. Now you'll be able to download all addons from Firefox Addons site and also install them in Firefox 3.

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