These are the plugins/skins which I use on firefox, which you may also find making your browsing experience more enjoyable, safe & pleasing. There are other tons of addons as well, but on weighing the usage (how useful it is) & resourcage (how much resources it consumes), I found these to be the best.

1. Adblock plus 

Use this along with Filterset updater and they would make 90% of the web ads disappear. Still, if you find any new ad on some page, simply click on right corner of firefox, where it says ‘Adblock’ & add the filter yourself. Filterset updater updates the ad structure for you, but sometimes the update maybe late.

Heres the ad-ridden page from TOI as viewed in IE…. & btw, you will also get a flash popup covering quarter of the screen when you load the page. Also the screenshot doest not include the ads when you scroll down.

Heres the ad-free page from same site, same time as viewed in Firefox.

(Ironically, the adblock will block ads on this page also… ;-)  )

2. Flashblock 

This (as you would guess) blocks all the pesky flash animations on web, & activates a flash only if you wish.

IE Preview of a flash page:  PLus if your have your speakers turned, the audio associated with the game/animation will start pumping out…

FF Preview of same page. Notice the f instead of animation? (thats a big F for the animation)…when you click on it, only then the animation will kick in.

3. Fireftp

This is not much of a daily use addon, if you deal with ftp sites/web development, you may find this useful…but not necessary for usual day-day browsing.

4.  Silver skin

Outlook Silver skin makes the UI for firefox pleasing. Click on any of the above screenshots for my FF skin. You may find others convenient as well. Go to FF themes section to explore more.

5. Tab Mix Plus

Did you ever wish you could undo, when you accidentally closed a webpage? Tabmix plus can restore that for you. Additionally, it includes more feautures on tabs. I like the ‘restore session’ feature the most.

6. NoScript

A webpage may look normal, but some ads placed on the site, may contain dangerous scripts & the site owner may not know this. Noscript blocks all javascripts, you can enable only the ones you want….

If you find any additional interesting addons, please drop in the comments, I will take a look…

Weekend means a lot to most of us, but when u find that the weekend is so lazy u’ll go crazy. Dont u think so? It happened for me too. Just wanted to share how boring a weekend could be if u plan nothing or the plan was not proper…….

I planned to clean my old appartment with other friends during weekend. So, I went there on time and no one turned up. U feel so sick, waiting for people and doing nothing. I waited till there alone till evening cleaning small things. Got so tired, finally got freshed and had a goood sleep for 4 hours.

Finally, I woke up only when my new chinese roomate made hell a loud noice in the kitchen (Actually, he was trying to cut the frozen meat for the dinner). Then i get a call from my old roommate asking for a dinner out. Atlast, we landed in the Western Pizza corner (one of the best Pizza corner in my City), orderd for XL Western Chicken Pizza Just for 3 guys. Dont u think it would be too much?? Yeah, it was hell a lot for 3 people for dinner and that too it was full of cheeze. I hate cheeze, but no pizza can be found without cheese. But at that time, seeing this Pizza i felt like it had all the Cheeze in the world. i was so cheezy, rather it looked like another cheese Cake. And this cheeze spoiled my whole night sleep.

Next day, I woke up early at 5.00 AM and was not able to sleep, coz i was feeling thirst like hell. So, woke up and came to the university by walk. It was really wondefull walking early in the morning. It reminded me of my school days. No one around, Walkin alone on the lonely road, It was great fun. This way, my weekend was so Cheezy……………

Nikhita is doing an important role in the movie. Keep watching this space for more updates.

I am so happy today….. for many reasons obviously… ….

First thing is, I got my Teaching assistantship approved for Fall semester (starts from September to December and will be extended to the next semester) ….. This will pay me more than what i am getting now…… i will be paid 1200 CAD per month, now i am getting 850 CAD per month …. Not only that, this also gives me good experience in teaching…. anyways, that is one thing i wanted to say u guys….

Second is, My prof is happy with my performance. ….. i am also taking two courses in next semester…. one is course on PDE’s and one a reading course……

Then next thing is,……i got my credit card approved…. . so no problem of paisa now…… i will be getting it soon…. I also got my memory card for my Camera…. so lots of photos now…..

arey one more thing…. i forgot is….  I will soon be visiting Americal Border soon (may be second weekend of August)….. ….. It is not just a visit, there actually is some ther reason…. funny reason obviously… .. one of my old roommate got approved for his PR(Permenant Resident) Status….. so, the final stage is to cross the canadian border and enter again, then ur immigration status changes and u will be a permenant resident here….. not a citizen… Doesn’t it sound funny…. so planned for a drive…. hope it goes welll….

I also changed my room….. My new roomamte is Christian (Indian)…. . he listens to christ songa even in the late night…. there are lot of Wierd things to say about my new house mates…. will comeback with that soon…..

if any of u think that saying this is BALUPU….. I am sorry…… :) Aravoda neeke

thats it…. guys….. will be back with a new topic….

The songs in the movie are also pictured quite differently as well. No more lead characters dancing on a beach or running around trees with a bunch of indentical-clad emotion-less extras dying to wait for the director’s magical ‘PACKUP’ call. No more stopping story for 5 mins - this might affect filling up your popcorn & visiting the John’s for some time…

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Some Videos from Metro :

Another one:

Makes you wonder…

Also check this video submitted by kishore:

Here’s the original pic & Simpson’s world me (except the hat)… Simpsons dont like the Texan hat.

Just for the kicks or if you dont know, Here’s how simpsons evolved..

Priyanka Chopra to play a supermodel
20th July 2007 09.01 IST
By Agencies

Former Miss World Priyanka Chopra is all set to play a supermodel in a film that dwells on the darker side of a career in modeling.

The film will be directed by Madhur Bhandarkar who has so far done critically acclaimed films like Chandni Bar , Page 3 , Corporate and Traffic Signal .

Before becoming Miss India World and later becoming Miss World 2000 Priyanka had walked the ramp as a model and that made her a great choice for Bhandarkar’s project.

The film titled, ‘Fashion Show: The Ugly Side of Beautiful People’, is being bankrolled by UTV with whom Priyanka recently signed a three-film contract worth Rs.4 to 5 crore.

Also in the film is Kangana Ranaut , who has the looks and demeanor of a model and with whom UTV has a similar three film contract.

Under the UTV contract both Priyanka and Kangana enjoy artistic freedom and the two decided to sign up only because they felt the roles suited them well. Many supermodels are also expected to feature in the film though Priyanka will play the lead.

Bhandarkar will be venturing into the big league with the movie, which is budgeted at Rs 20 crore.

Bhandarkar has yet to finish the first screenplay and is understandably reluctant to talk about the cast or the roles. The film is expected to hit the floors on September 15 and lavish runways are being erected at Nitin Desai’s Studios in Karjat.

Rohit Bal has been signed up as the fashion consultant for the film and will also make a special appearance in the film.

Source: http://www.apunkachoice.com/scoop/bollywood/20070720-0.html

If you are an avid firefox user, you can use keywords as well….
lifehack has an indepth article for this…

Technically, the search breaksdown to –> intitle:index.of + “mp3? + “band name” -htm -html -php -asp -

(it will tell google to look for mp3 indexes with the band name, but not the internet pages) …