Webmaster Pro Guide

 If you hate the look of Aero, click Start/Control Panel/Themes and you can choose a non-Aero theme, such as Windows Classic.

2. Windows Vista’s installer can detect serial-ATA (SATA) drives without the need to provide a driver diskette. Don’t bother creating a diskette for your SATA drives before you install Vista.

3. If, for some reason, the Vista installation gets interrupted due to an unintentional shutdown or reboot, start the computer without booting the Vista DVD. Windows Vista’s installer should pick up where it left off. If it does-n’t, then restart the installation over from scratch.

4. When you perform a search with Vista’s new, instant search feature, you can save the search in a special folder. This powerful feature allows you to create a virtual folder which, by default, is saved in your \\Searches\ folder. Every time you open such a folder, the search results are updated.

5. In Windows Vista, you can add additional clocks to the system tray. Click the clock, and then click Date and Time Settings. Click the Additional Clocks tab. You can add one or two additional clocks to the tray and select their time zones.

6. You can save your progress in most of the games included with Windows Vista—even the carry-overs from earlier versions of Windows.

7. You can create XML documents, which are more secure than regular text files or even word processor docs. Just create a document in a word processor, print it via the options menu, and select the XPS printer.

8. If you upgrade your graphics card in preparation for Windows Vista, be sure to get a new card with as much local memory as possible. Since Windows Vista renders everything—even the desktop and windows them-selves—as 3D surfaces, local 3D memory greatly improves performance…sometimes even more than a more powerful GPU.

9. Use the Ctrl + Alt + Del to open a window where you can access the common functions including the task manager, this will let you close programs even when the computer is sometimes frozen.

10. When you open new folder use the navigation items to be able to access more folders within the same window, moreover you can go back/forward to a folder/file you accessed earlier without closing the last window.

hope this will give you an enhanced experience

Use Yahoo! Messenger to call and talk over the Internet just like you’re on the phone. All you need is a headset, or a microphone and speakers. It’s that easy - just click the Call button. If no one’s there, leave a voicemail!You can also get much better sound quality than regular phone lines. Try it out - you and your friends will really hear a difference.

Find, add, share friends… It’s easier than ever to add and invite friends to Messenger. You can even send your contact information to a friend’s Address Book.

Download Yahoo! Messenger 9.0.0.907 Beta

You can check if your yahoo buddy is invisible to you or not. Just install and activate this small useful plugin

The plugin will be unzipped in your c:/programfiles/yahoo/ messenger/plugins/

Yahoo messenger invisible status Checker

Please Unzip in different directory if your yahoo messenger’s installation directory is different, but it works in most of the cases. You can activate it by clicking “action” and then “load test plugin” in your yahoo messenger’s main window.

“action” and then “load test plugin” in your yahoo messenger’s main window.
 Now you can track 12 Yahoo ids at the same time by using

 yahoo trakker, yahoo trakker is a Web based software .which tracks the online offline activity of messenger users in previous 24 hours, data gets updated automatically after every 10 minutes.

The holy grail of all us people who work in Firefox day in, day out (and, unfortunately, often endure slowdowns and lockups) - Firefox version 3 - seems to be near completion. As of today, Firefox 3 beta 2 is available for download and testing purposes; however, don’t get your hopes up just yet. As the folks of Mozilla say, “with this second beta, you’ll get a taste of what’s coming in Firefox 3, but there’s still more to come, and much of what you’ll see is still a bit rough around the edges.”

Still, if you’re the adventurous type, it’s worth trying. since it includes “approximately 900 improvements over the previous beta, including fixes for stability, performance, memory usage, platform enhancements and user interface improvements.” Much of this stuff comes from the community feedback from the first beta.

Some of the improvements (some are from beta 1) that caught our eye are:

- clicking on the favicon now gives information on the site owner
- Firefox now informs anti-virus software when downloading executable files
- better password management
- download manager further improved from beta 1
- resumable downloading (there is a God after all)
- text selection improvements (word by word, paragraph, multiple text selection)
- better integration with Vista, Mac and Linux
- single-click bookmark adding
- web applications, such as Gmail, can now handle mailto: links
- major architectural changes which should result in a speedier performance
- 300 memory leaks plugged (a very important fix that should hopefully reduce those slowdowns to a distant memory)

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Firefox has just been updated to version 2.0.0.9.
This stability update corrects several problems that were found in the previous release, Firefox 2.0.0.8.

The 2.0.0.8 release fixed some 200 issues, but accidentally regressed a few things. Most users won’t see any difference or experience any problems, and those 200 fixes make the 2.0.0.8 update very valuable.

The specific problems are:  …

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