Freebies time! What about a fully licensed full version of Total Defrag 2009 Special Edition by Paragon? It is valued at $29.95 but you can have it free by just registering at Paragon’s promotional page. Here’s their product’s boring description:

File system starts out with all or most of its files contiguous, and becomes more and more fragmented as a result of the file creation and deletion over the time.

Thus files and their parts become spread all over the hard disk, which follows the delays in the hard disk work and further lower performance. Total Defrag 2009 is a new comprehensive product for total file system defragmentation and optimization. Built on original Paragon technologies, it performs complete low-level defragmentation that provides almost zero fragmentation level.

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With so many third party image sharing service for Twitter, it is hard to decide which one to go for. Since there isn’t any comparison articles yet for Twitgoo vs. Img.ly, two of my remaining choices among the four, I decided to take a real look at them and compare all four Twitpic, Twitgoo, yfrog and img.ly.

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Have you ever see the following error message when you are trying to access YouTube using Firefox?

Bad Request

Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.

Cookie: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

It used to happen to me. Then after a while, it’s gone, and now it’s back at a higher frequency. I have to clear the cookies every single day to do away with the error message.

After a bit of Googling, it turns out that there are quite a lot of other Firefox users with the same problem. If you are one of them, try the following steps to see if it helps:

1. Locate your Firefox profile folder (how?)
2. Delete cookies.sqlite and cookies.txt

It works well for me.

For whatever reason, ImageShack has decided to stop developing the Imageshack right-click Firefox add-on since its last update on 26th December 2006. The latest official version is not compatible with Firefox 3 and Firefox 3.5 beta. It’s such a convenient add-on that there’s no reason to abandon it.

Although ImageShack supports image transloading (direct upload from URL instead of downloading to localdisk and uploading again), it’s still not as convenient as you have to copy and paste the image URL, while the add-on will enable you to upload image on any websites with just 2 clicks.

Fortunately, there is someone kind enough to update the add-on to be compatible with Firefox 3. You can download here – http://unsubstantial.info/imageshack.

That wouldn’t work on Firefox 3.5 beta though. If you’re using Firefox 3.5 beta, try this one here instead. You have to register in the forum before you are allowed to download the add-on.

After downloading, open the add-ons window on your Firefox (Tools > Add-ons), then simply drag the xpi file into the window and install it.

P.s: I’ve only tested the one for Firefox 3.5 beta. Works like a charm.

"Set As Desktop Background" option from Firefox's context menu

Is the “Set As Desktop Background” option from your Firefox’s context menu (right-click option menu) gone or missing, for no apparent reason? It’s a handy option when you’re browsing for new wallpapers and wanted to see how it looks like on your desktop, and it’s such a pain when you know the option is missing.

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Not every web hosting provider bundles Fantastico or its equivalent into your hosting plan. Even if they do, sometimes it wouldn’t work (been there, done that, not on Fantastico though, but on DreamHost’s one-click-install). In this case, your best bet is to download the entire WordPress script at 1.8 MB with over 600 files in it and upload all of them to your server.

The good news is you no longer need to be a downloading and uploading maniac in order to install WordPress on your server without the use of Fantastico or its equivalent, thanks to the 4.35 KB EasyWP php script.

EasyWP is a single php file that automatically downloads the latest version of WordPress to your server, extracts the archive (on your server), and takes you to the built in WordPress setup process.

Here’s how it works:

1. Download easywp.php
2. Upload easywp.php to wherever you want WordPress to be installed
3. Point your browser to the script (eg. www.example.com/easywp.php) and complete the installation

Voila!

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