Steve Looi » Tech Tips http://www.stevelooi.com Tech, Gadgets, Reviews, How-to, Tips and more Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:07:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 My favourite Firefox Add-ons http://www.stevelooi.com/2008/12/19/my-favourite-firefox-add-ons/ http://www.stevelooi.com/2008/12/19/my-favourite-firefox-add-ons/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:00:13 +0000 Steve Looi http://www.stevelooi.com/?p=86 This is my list of Firefox add-ons must-haves. They make my daily work to be more productive and surfing the web more interesting.

Colorzilla
Firebug
Firefox Throttle
Fireshot
FlashGot
iMacros
MeasureIt
Pearl Crescent Page Saver Basic
SeoQuake
Yet Another Window Resizer

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Here’re the steps that I did to fix the problem.

1. Create a new blank document.
2. Select all the content in the problematic document.
3. Copy and paste in the new document.
4. Save the new document under a new file name.
5. Close and re-open the newly created file.

The file now opens almost immediately.

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You might not have notice that there is a brightness setting in the BIOS.

1. Restart your computer.

2. Press F2 to enter the BIOS configuration menu.

3. Expand the Video tree menu on the left column and select Brightness from the sub-menu.

4. Move the bar to a higher value to increase the brightness. The default value is 3.

5. Save and exit the BIOS.

Now, your LCD panel should be brighter. However, the battery power will be drained much faster if the LCD panel brightness is increased.

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]]> http://www.stevelooi.com/2008/10/07/increase-dell-inspiron-lcd-panel-brightness-on-battery-power/feed/ 0 SEOQuake for Mozilla FireFox and Internet Explorer http://www.stevelooi.com/2008/07/17/seoquake-for-mozilla-firefox-and-internet-explorer/ http://www.stevelooi.com/2008/07/17/seoquake-for-mozilla-firefox-and-internet-explorer/#comments Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:00:03 +0000 Steve Looi http://www.stevelooi.com/2008/07/17/seoquake-for-mozilla-firefox-and-internet-explorer/ SEOQuake is an add-on for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. It is a must-have Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and web site promotions tool for webmasters.

The tool can be used to retrieve and investigate SEO parameters of web pages on the fly. User can use SEOQuake to study other web sites SEO parameters so that his or her own web site can follow the best practise of other web site SEO configurations in order to achieve higher ranking in the search engine results.

When a web page is loaded in the web browser, SEOQuake will retrieve and display the results such as, Google PageRank, Google, Yahoo and MSN indexes, and Alexa rank, and etc. in the toolbar.

I like the built-in Keyword Density tool which will analyze and tell you the density of every word found in a web page being queried. Within the Keyword Density tool, you can also load Google keywords data that coresponds to the keywords it has analyzed.

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]]> http://www.stevelooi.com/2008/07/17/seoquake-for-mozilla-firefox-and-internet-explorer/feed/ 3 Downgrade Windows Vista to Windows XP http://www.stevelooi.com/2008/04/16/downgrade-windows-vista-to-windows-xp/ http://www.stevelooi.com/2008/04/16/downgrade-windows-vista-to-windows-xp/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:52:26 +0000 Steve Looi http://www.stevelooi.com/2008/04/16/downgrade-windows-vista-to-windows-xp/ If you bought a computer that came with Windows Vista pre-installed, but due to its annoying User Account Control or other reasons that make you want to run Windows XP in your new computer, it is possible to downgrade to Windows XP at no additional cost.

Read this guide about how to downgrade to Windows XP.

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