How to Increase Mozilla Firefox Browsing and Startup Speed

• Are you experiencing slow speed and lagging web experience from your favourite browser- Mozilla Firefox? This generally happens after using Firefox over time. 
• Restarting browser doesn’t help and neither restarting the computer. So how can you improve and refurbish Firefox’s declining speed and efficiency?

Well, over the due course of this article we’ll be discussing on the topic how to speed up your Mozilla Firefox? We’ve gathered some tricks and tweaks that will put your Firefox again into efficient and balanced position. And we believe, if you’ll carefully follow this guide and apply all the methods together, you’ll experience a 100% of speed increase, be it a web browsing experience, Firefox start up time or browsing speed.

Tweaks to Speed Up Mozilla Firefox Browsing:

• Before moving on to some Tweaks on increasing mozilla firefox speed, check out the article on - How to Increase Internet Speed.

Configuring settings in Firefox’s “about:config” option:

1) You can increase the speed by Reducing RAM required by Firefox for its Cache Management.

Follow the steps:

• Open Firefox browser and type “about:config” (without quotes) in the address bar.

• In the search field, look for: “browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewer” and change its value to “0”.

2) By default at a time, Firefox makes only one request while opening a web page for you but by increasing and allowing Firefox to make several requests at a time, we can increase the page loading speed and this can be achieved by enable pipelining.

1. Open Firefox browser and type “about:config” (without quotes) in the address bar.
2. In the search field:

Find:  “network.http.pipelining” & change to “true” by double clicking on it.
Find: “network.http.proxy.pipelining” and change it to “true”.
Find:  “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” and change it to 10.

Now browser will make 10 requests at once.

3) This trick involves in changing the amount of time assigned to browser it uses to act on received information and it works effectively if you’re using a broad band connection.

1. Open Firefox browser and type “about:config” (without quotes) in the address bar.
2. Right Click anywhere in empty portion and click New> Integer. Name the new Integer as:  “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and assign it a   “0” value.
3. Similarly you can create the  following values to increase speed of Firefox:

Create a new Boolean: “network.dns.disableIPv6” and set value to “false”.
Create a new Integer: “content.notify.backoffcount” and set the value to 5.
Create a new Boolean:  “plugin.expose_full_path” and set the value to “true”.
Create a new Integer:  “ui.submenuDelay” and set the value to 0.

4) Finally the last method with which you can reduce the RAM usage of Firefox when it is minimized to taskbar. This little hack will help you to free up some RAM for your system when you’re not browsing.

1. Open Firefox browser and type “about:config” (without quotes) in the address bar.
2. Right Click anywhere in empty portion and click New> Boolean. Name the new Boolean in the pop up as:  “config.trim_on_minimize” and assign it “true” value.
3. Restart the Firefox.

Using Firefox extension- FasterFox:

There’s another way to increase the browsing or Internet speed in Firefox with the help of an extension/add-on for Firefox called FasterFox. It works pretty cool for me and I was able to notice some significant improvement in browsing speed. However, it won’t work well on my old computer with basic configuration.  So I won’t recommend it to users with low-configuration systems.

How FasterFox works?

• FasterFox recycles all the useless or ideal bandwidth and utilizes it to load web pages much faster. 

Download Fasterfox Here.

Basic ways to speed up Firefox:

Remove Unwanted Addons and Pugins:

• To decrease the start-up Firefox loading time, remove unwanted add-ons or extensions.

• All add-ons lower the start-up loading times by fraction of seconds, therefore more the add-ons higher will be start-up loading time.
• The add-ons or extensions that used Internet connection can lower the browsing speed, so we’ll suggest you to avoid those add-ons that use Internet connection.

Disable Unwanted Addons,Plugins and Extensions.

Clear Cookies from Time to Time:

• Cookies, cache, history and other temporary files are also responsible for Firefox’s declining speed and efficiency. We’ll suggest them to remove all these files 2-3 times a month.

You can remove these files by going to: options>Security. Choose “clear your recent history” to wipe history and “Remove cookies” option to remove cookies. Also delete the unnecessary bookmarks.

• There’s another small effective trick to decrease the start-up Firefox loading time. Right click on the Firefox icon and choose properties.

• Select the target field and in the end of url “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe”, give a space and type “/Prefetch:1” (without quotes). Remember to put space as without specifying space this trick will not work.

All the above mentioned tweaks and tricks are fairly easy to apply. We believe these tricks will make your favourite browser at least 2-3 times much faster. Although some tricks may not work for you as some of them depends upon the configuration of your system and some upon Internet connection. Anyway, if you have any interesting working trick to speed up the Firefox, do share it with us through comments.

Some more Features Articles:

• Increase Internet Speed.
• Speed up Windows Performance.
• Increase youtube Buffering Speed.

How to Increase Google Adsense Revenue

When coming to advertising solution Google Adsense comes first in the mind of every blogger.They are the highest paying network currently regardless of the niche of Blog.In this article I will be discussing few best Adsense placements and best performing Ad units  from my experience to maximise Google Adsense Revenue.

Increase Google Adsense Revenue

Tips to Maximize Google Adsense Revenue:

Your Adsense income is primarily dependent on following factors.

1. Traffic.
2. Cost Per Click(CPC)
3. Click Thorough Rate(CTR).

Here we will be discussing ways to improve all the above mentioned factors so that your Adsense Income will also boost up.

Best Performing Ad Units:

When coming to Ad units size bigger is better.Larger ad units perform well compared to small ad units.

Some of the best performing ad units are 300*250,336*280,300*600,160*600.

Recently 300*600 (Half Page Ad)  was available only for Premium Adsense Publishers but now Google Adsense went ahead and made this available for all to maximise revenue.

• But that was not the case 300*600 Half Page Ad didn't perform well as expected.

Best Ads Placement:

Proper Ads placement is the key factor for generating high CTR.The best Ads placement from my experience are.

Best Ads Placement

Top of Posts below Title:

• This is the most preferred place to get maximum number of clicks.
• Ad units like 300*250,336*280,468*60 and 728*90 would work like charm in this position.

Just after ending the Post:

• From my experience this is the best place to get high CTR.
• Place a ad unit just below the post left inclined.
• Here is strongly suggest you to use 336*280 Ad Unit.

In Between the Posts:

• If you are writing a lengthy posts then place text link ads or banner ads in between the posts.
• Though placing ads manually may trouble you but can generate good CTR.

Use Maximum Number of Ad Units:

To earn more revenue from Adsense you must be using maximum number of ad units per page.Google Adsense allows only 3 Banner Ads and 3 Text Link Ads per page which is very much sufficient.

Note:Premium Adsense publishers can use upto 6 Banner Ads per page.Another way to show more than 3 ads per page is via Google Double Click.

Few Important Aspects to consider:

• I read at many places saying that reducing the number of Ad Units can increase the CPC.But it didn't prove right from my experience. Adsense CPC is completely dependent on the source of traffic and the country location.So to generate maximum income take advantage of maximum number of Ad Units.
• Do not place too many ads which will effect loading time and may annoy the visitors.

Include High CPC Keywords in your Articles:

Google displays ads relevant to the keywords in the article.If you include few keywords like Buy Laptops,Buy Antivirus then generally high cpc ads will be displayed.

• I recommend you to check Google Adwords Keywords tool to find out the cpc of each keyword.

Target US/Canada Traffic:

US,UK,Canada visitors CPC is very high.So if you can write articles targeting these nations then you can earn handsome amount from not only Google Adsense but also many other Advertising Networks.

Do not Place Ads Side By Side:

Avoid placing ads side by side especially on top and bottom of the posts.

Use Text Link Ads Below Menubar:

Text Link ads below menu bar perform well as they resemble categories of a blog.

• Must Read:How to Increase Alexa Rank.

Gmail.com Login & Gmail Sign Up Page

We’re up with another interesting tutorial.Today, we’ll be discussing about one of the most popular email services - Gmail.com. Gmail is powered by Google and presently it is the most popular and largest free email service in the world. As of June 2012, it had 425 million registered members.  Anyhow, over the due course of this article we’ll be discussing two basic but important things to get started with Gmail-

1. Gmail Signup – How you can create a Gmail Account.
2. Gmail Sign in - How to getting into your inbox after signing up.

Of course! It’s very easy to create a Gmail account but I’ll be covering it in a very interesting and lucid manner for better understanding. Apart from this we’ll also cover some interesting basic concepts and details about Gmail.  Before we get ahead, let’s check out some of the cool features of Gmail:

• Free to use
• All the basic and advance email options are available.
• Lot of free space
• Mobile access
• Keep spam out of your Inbox and lot of more features.

Signing Up with Gmail.com

Registration is pretty easy and doesn’t require any sort of technical knowledge, just follow the below mentioned steps carefully and within no time you’ll be owning a fresh Gmail Account.  Following are the steps, read them carefully:

• On your computer, open any Internet browser and visit: http://gmail.com.
• On the top right corner, look for “Create an Account” and click it.

• After clicking it, a new page will be loaded featuring a registration form. Now fill up all the details like your complete name, a valid Email address, 8 or more than 8 character alphanumeric passwords, your birthdate and your phone number. Lastly, enter the CAPTCHA code as shown in the picture; check in the “I agree” option and click “next step”.

• In the next step you’ll see some help related to Gmail offered by Google. You can read this if you want to, otherwise click skip and proceed to “next step”.  This will take you to your Gmail’s Inbox where you’ll find few “welcome” emails from Google.  You can keep them or delete them, doesn’t matter.

Finally you’re into  your brand new Gmail.com Account where you can all the standard as well as advance email functionalists like composing an Email, Outbox, Draft box, Sent, Spam Filtering, etc. So there you go guys, finally you’ve created a fresh email account which I believe should be like bread-butter for you. 

Now moving up to the next and final part where we’ve summed up a detailed guide on how to sign in to your Gmail account. 

Signing into Gmail Account:

After creating your Gmail account, we’ll tell you how you can sign in to your account easily. There’s nothing much, you just have to fill up your account details which will be authenticated with Google’s online servers. Once authenticated, you’ll get access to your account. But still we’ve again summed up some instructions which you’ll find very easy.

• On your computer, again open any Internet browser and visit: http://gmail.com.
• The page you’ll encounter this time is called login page and you have to use the same email address along with password that you have used while creating your account. 
• You can also check in “remember me” option to avoid the hassle of signing in again and again. But only check in this option if you’re on a personal computer. 

• Finally click the “Sign In” button and within few seconds you’ll be able to access your Gmail mail box. 

Security Information: 

Before ending this article, we’ll be sharing some security thoughts. Everybody is familiar with online frauds and ha*ks, so security is always considered as primary aspect of life, be it your email account or net banking account. These frauds and scams are increasing day by day so we’ll suggest you to take security thoughts seriously. 

• Secure Gmail account with 2 Step Authentication.

Never ever try to share your login details with anyone as it may put you into a serious trouble. The Gmail developers are continuously working to make it safer on their side and you have to take responsibility on your side.
That’s all we have got for now. If you’ve any sort of queries, do let us know through comments.

• Have a look at New Email Service Provider Microsoft Outlook.

Pankaj Gehloach

About the Author:

A bit different, A passionate blogger, hardcore programmer and soloist music artist.Join him @ Facebook.He is our Gold Star Contributor and co-author of AllTechBuzz.

Trace Name,Operator,Location of any Mobile Number in the World

I already wrote a post on How to trace mobile numbers but that post was limited to only India and moreover you cant get the full details like Name,Place,Location of the mobile number owner.Today I decided to reveal this trick which I have been using since a very long time to get details of mobile numbers.

Here we will be finding out the details like Name,Operator , Location of any mobile number using an application called TrueCaller. Generally this application is available only for mobiles using I-OS Devices ,Android Devices ,Blackberry etc.But in this post I will be explaining how to install this application on your own PC as well.

 Get Details of numbers from Truecaller Homepage itself:

• Truecaller also has an instant search option using which you can get the details of any mobile number with few clicks.
• Go to Truecaller website.
• There you can find a option Free Phone Number Search.

Free Phone number search from True Caller website Homepage

• Enter the mobile phone number there and hit search.
• You will be asked to authenticate using any social networking site like  Facebook,Twitter etc.
• After that you will be redirected to a page where you can get details of mobile number.

Traced mobile number details with True Caller

Steps to Trace Mobile Number Details from your Mobile:

• If you are already using a Android ,Symbian ,Blackberry or i-OS Devices then you can directly go to Truecaller Website and download the application on your mobile and start using the application.
• After installing the app open the application and you will find two input boxes as Name or number and Place.

True Caller

• Enter the number in the number input box and then hit search.
• You should get the details of the mobile number along with the Name,Operator and Place.

Traced mobile details using True caller

• But this app is available only for mobiles.To get this app on your PC follow the below steps.

Steps to Install True Caller on your PC:

• Here we will be using a method to run android application on your PC.
• A free program called Bluestacks is used to run android apps on your computer.
• First Download Bluestacks.

Note:For a smooth installation of Bluestacks without any error you must be having .NET framework installed on your PC. 

• Download .NET Framework from here. 
• After installing Bluestacks go to App Search.

Bluestacks

• Here search for True Caller.

• You should get the app on the first search itself.

• Then install the Truecaller application.
• After that just open the application and enter the mobile number in the input box.
• Then hit search.You should be able to get the details of the mobile number including name.

Traced mobile details using True caller

How this App Works?

• Generally this truecaller app should be getting you the details of mobile numbers in most cases.
• Truecaller has a large database where it collects the details of the mobile numbers from various sources like SMS sites,social networking sites,Mobile apps etc.
• So whenever you authenticate these sites which are a part of truecaller database with your name then it will store those details.

Note:The results shown by Truecaller may not be true in all the cases but you should be getting correct details in 95% of the cases.

Sometimes you might not get the details of the numbers which are not in Truecaller database.

How To Unlist / Remove your Number Details from Truecaller Database:

• If you wish to remove your number details from truecaller database then there is a easy way to do so.
• Just go to Truecaller Unlist Phone Number.
• Enter your mobile number along with the country code in the beginning of the number then enter CAPTCHA and click unlist.

Unlist Number From Truecaller

• Now your number should be unlisted from TrueCaller Database.

If you have any trouble in installing bluestacks or using the app let me know in your comments.

Last Income Report of this Year-December 2012-Wishing you a Very Happy New Year

I recently started sharing my income report.This is the second and last income report of this year.I may stop sharing Income Reports in future.

What Happened this Year?

• In the year 2011 September I started blogging.First started on Blogspot then bought an inexpensive .in domain.
• Later I moved to .net to make it more Professional.
• Then in the last Page Rank update our blog blessed with Page Rank-4.Alexa increasing at a rapid rate day by day.
• Traffic is decent ,anyways there is always a scope for improvement and I have to improve my traffic alot.

So What Happened this Month(December 2012)?

This month gave me mixed results .I was hit by a Google Panda Algorithm which dropped my blog traffic by 20%(However later I somehow managed to recover back).After the Panda Recovery my Google Authorship started disappearing from search results .Again this also had a huge impact of Traffic.But the good news is that now the Google Authorship images are back and traffic is coming back to normal.

As far as the income is concerned there is a great improvement in the income of blog.I increased the number of Ad Units from 1 to 2 which increased the Google Adsense Revenue by 100%.Below is the detailed income report of this month.

Income Report of December 2012:

Google Adsense : $200

Google Adsense income has improved a lot when compared to the previous month.I am now Youtube Partner where I will get opportunity to earn from my videos which is great.

• Struggling to get Google Adsense approval? Then you should check my post on "How to get Google Adsense Approval Fast?"

Direct Advertising : $300

So as already mentioned in the previous post my primary source of income comes from Direct Advertisement.I didn't depend on Google Adsense and I wont depend on it in future as well.

• Check out Advertising Rates and Plans on our blog.

Infolinks : $50

Infolinks is Inline text advertising network.Which is a Good Alternative to Google Adsense. Currently I am using only one text link unit on this blog and may avoid it completely in near future.

• Check out complete Infolinks Review.

Services: $100

I started offering SEO,Web Designing ,Blog Consultancy related services last month.I am currently working only on good projects and Planning to start a new website for services.

• Check out the Service we offer.

mGinger: $20

mGinger is a innovative advertising network which is available only for Indian users.They pay for reading sms.Though the task sounds easy but its not that easy to earn from mGinger,you need have large number of affiliates.I have over 2000+ affiliates who joined under me and I earn a decent income from mGinger for doing nothing.

• mGinger Payment Proof .

Clixsense : $10

Its a PTC(Paid to click) network which pays users for viewing ads.I am not very active on Clixsense but currently earning around $0.5 per day from affiliates.Like mGinger here also I get paid decent enough for doing nothing.

Summing up all networks : $200+$300+$50+$100+$20+$10=$680.If we convert the same into my country currency 680*51=Rs 34,600.

This might not be a great income but I think its a decent income for me as a part time blogger.If you dont know currently I am pursuing Engineering 3rd year.

Plans Ahead:

• I recently bought Hosting+Domain from hostgator to start a new blog on wordpress. I will disclose further details soon.
• My goal in this new year is to earn $4000+/Month by the end of this year, which is not that difficult.
• I already hired few paid authors who have excellent writing skills and good technical knowledge.I am looking forward for some more authors ,if you are interested in being a paid author then you can contact me.

Lastly Wish you a Very Happy and Prosperous New Year:) 

Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition Available For Download For Free of Cost to Home Users

Bitdefender is the worlds Best Antivirus of 2012.I already posted a article on "How to get Bit Defender 2013 License Keys for free" in this article we will be dealing with the free version of Bitdefender download links and its primary features.The trial versions have limited features ,to enjoy full version we need to pay handful amount to buy the Antivirus.

But now a days the trend of paid antivirus is getting declined as reputed organisations like Microsoft,Aviara ,AVG started offering free antivirus solutions.So ,now Bitdefender also went ahead and starting offering their antivirus solution free of cost for Home Users.Lets look at some key features.

Features of Bitdefender Free Edition:

Despite of free edition the antivirus solution boasts several key features of complete protection.

Easy and User Friendly:

The best feature of Bitdefender is its easy and minimalistic design.The design is simple and any non techy person can also understand the features without any hiccoughs.

• There are no complications to confuse you.
• The options are very straight forward and user friendly.

Registration:

Once you download and install the software you will see 29 days countdown balloon notification.Don't worry you need not to buy.All you need to do is to register with your existing Gmail or Facebook account.

Fast Scan on Right Click:

One more great feature which most of the antivirus solutions offering now a days is scan on right click.

• If you are suspicious about any zipped files which you download from various sources then you can just right click and scan for threats.

Real-time Shield:

• Continuously protects your systems from obnoxious threats,malwares and spywares in the background.
• So you will be getting real time protect for free.

Active Virus Control:

This is the main feature that most of the antivirus lacks.Bitdefender has inbuilt features that can detect those threats which are not yet discovered.

E-mail Security with Antispam:

The highly effective antispam component eliminates any harmful or trash e-mails coming your way.

They are recognised even before getting in your mailbox, so you will not even know they were sent.

It easily combines with various email customers like Thunderbird, Ms Perspective (2007, 2010), Perspective Show, and Microsoft windows Email.

In a Nutshell:

To sum it up the free edition of Bitdefender offers the following features.

• Active Virus Control
• Real-time Shield
• Anti-rootkit
• Automatic Updating Feature.
• Quick scan on demand
• Scan any file on right click.

The application is available to download for all versions of Windows including the latest Windows 8.

Download Bitdefender Free Edition Now.

How to Edit Hosts File in Windows 8 ,7

• Are you looking for how to edit host file in Windows 8,then you are at the right place.Editing host file in Windows 8 is almost similar as editing host file in Windows 7.

What is a Hosts File?

Just in case if you don't know ,a Host file is where you can manually enter a Hostname and IP to manually bypass a DNS Server.Generally to block a website.

• Also Read:How to Access Blocked Websites at Work.

Steps to Edit Hosts File in Windows 7:

1.In windows 7 click on start and then search for Notepad.

2.Now you need to right click and then choose Run as Administrator.

3.Now in Notepad click on File -> Open.

4.Now a new windows will pop-up.In this windows follow the below navigation.

Local Disk C:>Windows>System 32>Drivers>Etc.Change the File Type from .txt file to All files.Then the Hosts File Will Show Up.

5.Now select the hosts file and edit as you want.

Steps to Edit Hosts File in Windows 8:

1.In windows 8 start button is absent so here you need to hover to right and wait for the Charms Bar to appear.

2.Choose the option Search in Charms Bar and now search for Notepad.

3.After Notepad tile shows up ,Right click on it and then choose Run as Administrator at the bottom.

4.Now a windows will popup for confirmation.Choose yes.

5.After this all the steps are similar as in Windows 7.

6.Now in Notepad click on File -> Open.

7.Now a new windows will pop-up.In this windows follow the below navigation.

Local Disk C:>Windows>System 32>Drivers>Etc.Change the File Type from .txt file to All files.Then the Hosts File Will Show Up.

8.Now select the hosts file and edit as you want.

If you have any trouble in editing hosts file, let us know in your comments.

• Must Read:Complete guide to customize windows 8 start screen.