For me, Firefox is just like an operating system, with the add-ons like the applications.

I always have a problem on managing the tags of Firefox 3. Unlike the bookmark system of the other web-browser, tagging is allowed for the Firefox. The tagging feature is based on the SQLite database in Firefox.

I had an experience that I corrupted the tag because of installing the Wizz RSS in Firefox. Thus, I seldom manage the tags. And previously, I installed StumbleUpon toolbar, this add-on generated a lot of tags which I don’t like.

The ISP in my area just upgraded their system. So, there is another challenge for me to setup my home network.

First, my condition is very weird, the ISP gave me an Ethernet cable. And to online, first need to access any website, then the ISP server will redirect me to a website, then key in the username and password. Only then, I can access internet.

So, the router I know cannot solve the problem like this. So, I searched from Internet and found that there is a method, “Internet Connection Sharing” in Windows XP.

Since Windows XP Service Pack 3 released, we might need to install the critical hotfixes ourselves. There are several ways to install hotfixes. We can search for “windows offline update” from internet.

But, I personally prefer go to The Software Patch, and download manually. Because I can download whatever I like. However, installing those hotfixes manually is troublesome. Then I wrote a batch file to install the hotfixes automatically. But I need to update the batch file whenever I download new hotfixes. Finally, I found a good solution.

Today, I just clean a virus from my friend’s computer (Windows XP). When I found the virus, I could not scan it. The virus (or worm) will create autorun.inf and a Recycle Bin folder in the pendrive. The malicious executable file is in the Recycle Bin folder in the pendrive. So that when the pendrive plugged into other computer, with the autorun feature, the virus will duplicated.

Firstly, I successfully cleaned the virus from the pendrive. Use the Unlocker to remove the Recycle Bin in the pendrive. Delete the autorun.inf.

When I used OO3 Math, I found that the symbols like “equal” and “times” appeared as strange characters. And found that they are “windings font”. Therefore, I found the solution from the PortableApps.com forum. Click here to read the forum.

The solution is not difficult. You just need a file “opens___.ttf”. Yes, it is the filename “opens___.ttf”. You can get file from OO2 portable version. To solve the problem, you just copy “opens___.ttf” to OO3 as the path of OO2.

Even I uninstalled the Wizz RSS extension, “Wizz RSS” folder was still existing in Firefox 3 bookmark. Then I found this forum which explains how to remove the folder.

To inform, I am using portable Firefox. And besides that, I always make my Firefox profile corrupted because simply changing the data in the file using a text editor. Therefore, make sure you backup the Firefox profile, so that can be recovered later. Otherwise you need to install all the extensions again.

Recently, I found that Badongo is not like before. It has the CAPTCHA feature like other 1-click hosting website. So, I try to search for other alternatives.

And I found that, Windows Live SkyDrive offer 5G online file storage. Besides that, it can store personal files, share the files with friends, and also share the files publicly. Therefore, I think this is an alternative to share the file publicly. However, we need to sign up an account before using the service.

Just try to connect my old Pocket PC (HP iPAQ rx3417) to the laptop using Microsoft ActiveSync 4.5, but pop up an error message:

Cannot verify the version of ActiveSync on your device. A program such as a firewall may be blocking a port ActiveSync uses to connect to the device, or you may need to upgrade to a more recent version of ActiveSync on the PC.

So, I turn off PCTools Firewall Pro, and restart, but still have the same error. So I try to reinstall ActiveSync with older version, 4.1, hope that the problem will be solved. But the problem still there, with a different message:

These days, I learnt and wrote a Python script.

There are a lot of addons (extension) that are not compatible with Firefox 3, and this includes Mozilla Archive Format. Because of this, I need to use UnMHT. However, as what I had said, UnMHT will encode all the text into base64 encoding.

When I search MSDN library, and I always save the webpage in printer friendly version. And the printer friendly version will always pop up a printing dialog. This is because of the javascript function, “window.print()”. Therefore, I always delete the javascript manually after downloading the webpage.

Since my laptop (Toshiba Satellite M200) cannot adjust the brightness using fn-key. Therefore, I set the brightness using Intel display driver graphics properties. Adjust the colour at the “color correction”.

However, when I play some games, and when the games are set to full screen, the LCD colour will be reset to the default colour. This is the problem. That means I need to right-click at the desktop to choose “Graphics Properties…” to adjust the brightness each time I play the game.