Did you ever know that the Windows Date and Time Application that shows the time in the system tray in windows connects to the Internet to synchronize with the Internet time server.If you want to stop Windows from doing so, follow these steps

1. Double click on the clock in the windows system tray.
2. A new Windows Date and Time properties window opens
3. Click the 3rd tab that says Internet Tab
4. Deselect the option as shown in the image below.

If your the kind of of person who wants to stop unnecessary applications from connecting to the internet, then you might want to try this.

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Linking to internal posts is good for SEO but can be at times really a pain if you don’t know the permalink of the post, you will have to search through the published posts list to find out the permalink of the post.RB Internal Links can really ease the way you link to old posts from newer posts.

RB Internal Links is a wordpress plugin lets you easily link to posts and pages within their wordpress blog without having to enter the full URL , It uses wiki style tags to define a link to the post or page.The wiki code can be inserted manually or by using the wysiwyg plugin.

INSTALLATION :

1. Download rb-internal-links plugin from here.
2. Upload the “rb-internal-links” folder to your wp-content/plugins/ directory.
3. Activate the plug-in
4. Browse to Options > RB Internal Links to take a look at preferences

Note : For this plugin to work you need the Rich Editing Enabled and wysiwyg enabled in your wordpress installation.

To manually link a page/post:
At the place you would like the link to appear write

<!`--{post id="post-slug/post-id" text="link text"--`>

removing the tick (`) if you copy pasting from here.

Using the tinymce wysiwyg editor:

• Make sure you’ve ticked “enable wysiwyg editor” on the plugin preferences page.
• Select the text for which you want to link.
• A new icon will appear on the wysiwyg toolbar, it looks like a page with a link over it Clicking on the icon will pop-up a toolbox. [ Image 1  ]
• Select the category the post you need is in or alternatively, choose pages for a list of pages
• Click on the post or page you wish to link to  [ Image 2 ]
• Fill in the optional properties for the link  [ Image 3 ]
• Click “Insert Link”

                                                 Image 1

                                             Image 2

                                              Image 3

WP 2.5.1 does not show the post id’s, so only the post-slugs can be used, which can also be a bit a bit hard to find.I feel the TinyMCE WYSIWUG Editor is the better way of using this plugin.

I think this plugin should be a part of Wordpress, I hope this makes it into the upcoming versions of Wordpress.

RB Internal Links  :  Homepage

Tool 1. Fast Stone Capture - This is a portable app that can do more than just sceenshot capturing which can capture images and saves then in 8 formats.

Features :

Slimline sidebar file browser provides full shell operations.Screenshot Captor : HomePageTool 3 : Snippy : Simply click on the little Snippy icon in the taskbar notification area, and mark out the region of the screen that you want to copy.The cut-out image will now be in your clipboard, and you can paste it in another application.If you are cutting out a portion of an Internet Explorer window, the URL will also be copied to the clipboard.

Snippy — HomePage | Size : 84 KB

Widows OS Option –

Method 1 : If you are using Windows OS then pressing “Print Screen Button” will copy the image of the full screen into to clipboard which can be pasted ( Ctrl + V ) in MS Paint.

Method 2 : If you want to take the screenshot of only the active window then select the Active Window and then press “Alt+ Print Screen Button “

FireFox Plugins For taking Screenshots :

1. ScreenGarb — Plugin for taking screenshots of web pages
2. FireShot

Do share with us which tool you use to take screenshots for your posts and suggest a new tool that you feel can be part of this list.

If you use a web2.0 services like Google,Facebook,Flickr,Stumbleupon then you could use the icons of these services designed by Dirceu Veiga.This pack of icons consists of 23 icons of some of the most important tools of networks and websites 2.0, like Google, Facebook, Flickr or StumbleUpon.

The pack is available in Windows, Mac or Linux in PNG, in sizes ranging from 512 to 16 x 512 x 16 pixels.

Preview | Download

Goosh written by Stefan Grothkopp is an unofficial google shell .This google interface behaves similar to a unix-shell.You type commands and the results are shown on this page which is powered by Google.You can add the support of this tool to your FireFox search box, which can really at times.

The interface is looks something like this

guest@goosh.org:/web>

Here’s the list of commands supported by goosh

- Enter green commands without parameters to change default mode.
- Anything that’s not a command will search in current default mode.
- Aliases will expand to commands. Numbers will expand to corresponding search results.
- Use cursor up and down for command history.
- Enter keyword and hit the tab-key for tab-completion.

Here’s a screen shot of how the results are shown

Is your system booting or shutting down slowly off late, or is your XP system hanging up at “Windows Is Starting ” during bootup. Then it can be useful to for having a verbose startup during the XP bootup.

To enable verbose status message in Windows, just follow the few simple steps below.

1. Go to Start > Run, type regedit and click OK.

2. Navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Policies\System

3. Right click at an empty area on the right pane, select New > DWORD Value and type VerboseStatus.

4. Now double click on the new verbosestatus key that you just created and enter the value data as 1.

5. Again, right click at an empty area on the right pane, select NEW > DWORD Value and type DisableStatusMessages. By default, the value data should be 0. Leave it as it is.

Via - Raymond.cc

Method 2 :

1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type gpedit.msc, and then click OK.
3. Expand Computer Configuration, expand Administrative Templates, and then click System.
4. In the right pane, double-click Verbose vs normal status messages.
5. Click Enable, and then click OK.
6. Close Group Policy Object Editor, click OK, and then quit Active Directory Users and Computers.
7. NOTE: Windows ignores this setting if the Remove Boot / Shutdown / Logon /
   Logoff status messages setting is turned on.

If you enable this setting, the system displays status messages that reflect each step in the process of starting, shutting down, logging on, or logging off the system.

Method 3 :

Copy paste this into notepad and save it as verbose.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system]
“VerboseStatus”=dword:00000001
“DisableStatusMessages”=dword:00000000

Restart your computer, and see which DLL files are being executed during Windows is starting up screen.