Must have Firefox Add-ons for Students

There are hell lot of add-ons available on the web.Its difficult to find useful ones. Here I have compiled a list of some useful add-ons for Firefox. I am a student and I have found them to be a very useful for both studies and fun.

1. Read It Later

This is one of the coolest plug-in for studies. On many occasions we need to save pages for reading later and we don't want to bookmark every one of those pages. It makes the bookmark area crowded and you may not be needing these pages later. So by using this add-on you can make a list and read it off-line as well as online. It also let you create a account with a click of a button and then you can access your list from anywhere. And it is Free!!. You can install it just by clicking on the link given below.

Install: Click here to Install ReadItLater  

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Having a Proxy Trouble In Ubuntu Terminal (1 step solution)

We all have some proxy issues in our college and we do all sort of things to set it right. Recently I faced a bizarre problem of not being able to get rid of my proxy settings in Ubuntu terminal.

I reset it, at all places I knew to set proxy but still each time when I started my terminal, it automatically started connecting to proxy server.

The problem was that i was not able to reset the environment variables. You can check it by typing following in terminal:

set | grep proxy

or

echo $http_proxy

It will show you if you have any value set to your proxy variable.

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Run any set of commands while launching Terminal

Many times we want some default set of commands to run in terminal whenever we start a new instance of it and there's a way to avoid typing the commands every time you login......
All you need is to add the commands in ~/.bashrc Configuration file.

I have taken the example of printing some message but you can almost write any command and make it run.

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Create a Temporary Swap file in Ubuntu

SomeTimes you may have to run a program that consumes more of your Main Memory and you may need more swap memory. Well, One way to create a temporary swap file is described below....its no way as efficient as original swap. But still it serves the purpose...

first of all, check your present swap space..

$free

Now, lets create a empty swap file..

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Receive mails from Gmail Using Exchange Active Synch In Samsung GT B5310 Corby-Pro

I am using these settings on a wi-fi connection and they work very well.

Caution : Backup your phonebook. It'll format it on first successful synch

So first of all when you click on Exchange active synch it'll ask you for you network. There you select your wi-fi connection and then in server settings...

Server URL: m.google.com
Username: username@gmail.com
Password: yourpassword
Domain: google
Use SSL: on

Click Save

It works well for me....hope it helps you too..

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