Change The Default Address Field Search Engine For Mozilla Firefox

Have you ever tried to input a few keywords on the address bar of Mozilla Firefox, other than typing the whole URL? Well, if you haven't, Firefox, by default, uses the Google search engine to search for those keywords and displays the results. However, if it can find a suitable website that, it feels, is suitable enough, that website shall be loaded.

Now, what if you don't like to use Google search engine? What if you wish to search the web using Yahoo or MSN Live or any other search engine? Here's the tweak.

1. Open up Firefox window and focus on a fresh tab.
2. Type about:config in the address bar.
3. In the text box titled "Filter", search for a key named keyword.URL.
4. Double-Click on that key and you get a dialog box. This is where you need to provide the search string for your favorite search engine.

Here are a few search strings for a few popular search engines that you can use:

• Google - http://www.google.com.sg/search?q=
• MSN Live - http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=
  
• Yahoo - http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=
• Answers.com - http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=
• Ask.com - http://www.ask.com/web?q=
• Gigablast - http://www.gigablast.com/search?k1f=901959&q=
• Rediff - http://search1.rediff.com/dirsrch/default.asp?MT=
• Excite - http://msxml.excite.com/info.xcite/search/web/

Clear Windows Memory With A Single Click

I'm sure all of us have used softwares like FreeRam XP Pro at least once in our lifetime so that we could free the memory available whenever we needed. Well, here's a nifty that'll allow you to clear the memory without the need of any external software. This process also allows you to kill idle processes automatically.

1. Right-Click on your desktop or in any folder where you'd wish to create the shortcut.
2. Select New -> Shortcut.


3. In the text box where you need to specify the location, type %windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks.
4. Click on "Next" and name the file as you feel. You can even assign an icon according to your taste. Click "Finish".
5. Now, all you need to do is click on that icon every time your computer starts getting slow.
   

The Ugly Mentality of the Indian Male...

A man is a man... he is the one who sustains the family.... why... because he earns a living.... just because he has an office to attend in the morning... does that make him the king of the world....??

Living in the 21st century and being a girl is the toughest thing that I have ever done. Trust me, its tougher being a girl in the world that we are living today. The man gets all the freedom... and the girl, none. If she drinks, she parties or hangs out with friends...she's labeled "bad". You think that this's all figments of my imagination??? Well... how about checking out the Hindustan Times' 6th January issue, where in a survey they found that the Indian male is a hypocrite and would never accept the women as his equal. The survey shows the ugly mentality that the male possesses today. Even though it's the new world... the Indian male would never shy away from making a lewd remark at a girl who is wearing so called provocative clothes... and as if that is not all... if eve teasing is done... and the man is questioned why.... then he simply answers that it was all her fault... why should she be wearing provocative clothes...or drinking or smoking....?? Isn't that against our ethics and morals....?? I say, isn't it against our same morals that a man also doesn't smoke or drink... then why is the man of the house allowed so....??

If only shall our counterparts ever accept the fact that they alone can't run the world...will they ever realise that a woman is as much part of this world and society as they are... and they have as much right to party.... to do what they want.... what truely is needed is sensitising the mentality of the Indian male...who just thinks that woman is nothing but a toy to be played with and thrown in a corner....!!!

I completely agree with what Annie Zaidi, at Blank Noise, Says--

I will not accept.....

I will not stop buying 'provocative' clothes. I will not be modest. I will not behave. I will not treat night as namehram I cannot be seen with. I will not change my stride to side-step the maps of our molestation. I will not call a Violation by another name. I will not make unwanted rules for myself. I will crush the beast where I see it. With a stare, with a slur, with a scream, with a camera.... I will take my rights as a citizen and nothing less.

Labyrinth Getting Revamped!

Hi,

Shayon's Labyrinth is up for change. The yellowish colored theme is passé now and a fresh feel shall be induced. There's a huge chance that by the time you read this post, the look and feel of the blog has already changed. And just in case it still hasn't, that's because it's still in the transition.

Yes, before I forget, I would need a good logo for my blog and since I ain't that great a graphic designer myself, I'd like to ask you if you'd be kind enough to help me out. In that case, kindly shoot me a mail to shayon.pal+labyrinth@gmail.com and I shall get back to you within 24 hours.

Moreover, I shall have to get all my previous widgets back up and working, so it's going to take some time. Kindly bear with me.

Thanks.

Labyrinth Back In Business

Finally I heave out the sigh of relief. As I'd mentioned in my last post, Labyrinth had been blocked by Blogger, categorizing it as a potential spam blog. However, after I asked them to review my blog, I just got the clean chit today. This is what the support guys at Blogger had to say:

Hello,

Your blog has been reviewed, verified, and cleared for regular use so that it will no longer appear as potential spam. If you sign out of Blogger and sign back in again, you should be able to post as normal. Thanks for your patience, and we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.

Sincerely,
The Blogger Team

Well, all the while when Labyrinth was blocked, I had been trying to figure out a way to contact the Blogger support and ask them a few questions but I realized there's not a single place where they've put up their email address where the users might be able to reach to them? Do you think it's right? Or is it that I'm too naive to figure out the contact info?

Labyrinth Spammed!!

Huh? The very first time I think of posting something this year and this is how Blogger greets me, with a word verification setup that I need to type to be able to post on my own blog! This is preposterous! I have been maintaining this blog for almost 3 years now and finally, one fine day, Blogger dismisses me off as a spammer. After I clicked the little question mark (that's so characteristic of Blogger), the following is what I get to read.

Although I did fill out the form and asked the Blogger guys to review my blog, I got curious and checked out their page on spam protection. It says they consider blogs that keep referring to the same page everywhere (link spamming) as spam and that is it! That is the only category they've specified. I still just can't understand how could they classify Shayon's Labyrinth as a spam blog. Do you have any suggestions?

Grow Your Business With Us!

Shayon's Labyrinth has been in the blogging scene for over 2 and a half years, now. If you are a regular in the online circuit, I'm sure you realize the amount of search engine authority the age commands. This blog has climbed the search engine ladder very successful and has become a "first page"r on both Google and Yahoo when searched for related content. Shayon's Labyrinth also happens to get viewers from India, USA and Australia, predominantly, and gets about 1000 pageviews daily. Thus, you can understand what a steal it is, with me selling advertisement space at the rate of only $2 for 7 days.

Kindly note that my preferable payment option is via PayPal. If you wish to pay me via Demand Draft or Cheque, the charges for the advertisement shall rise to $3 per week. Moreover, you shall also need to provide an image and the URL to which the image is expected to link. Although hosting options are available in-house, it'd be adviseable for you to host your own images since that ways you can both monitor the number of page views and can also change or modify the image as and when you deem fit. By the way, the image must be of the size 125 x 125 pixels and of extensions *.jpg, *.jpeg, *.gif or *.png.

For more information, kindly leave a comment here or email me at shayon.pal@gmail.com.