Widen or shorten your URL bar real estate by placing your mouse in between the “AwesomeBar” and embedded Google search in Firefox 3.

Start by hovering the mouse arrow the right of the down arrow in the AwesomeBar as shown in the picture above. Your mouse should then flip to the horizontal <–> position and you can slide the AwesomeBar bigger and smaller as desired. Doing so widens and shortens the search bar in reverse at the same time.

Once your Awesome Bar learns your browsing habits well enough, this little hack will save you time by giving you better use of the embedded search tool rather than surfing over to Google or Amazon. Like one of those searches to save for later? Firefox 3, like its predecessor, lets you drag tabs between seperate browser windows.

An easy way to prevent your computer safe from unauthorized access is to leave a sticky laying around that says “Passwords:“.

Then, set your machine to lock itself out after 5 sequential bad password attempts. The lockout should be around 1 hour.

This might help protect your assets from the roving thief around the office from guessing a good password and instead selecting one of the 6 or 7 decoys on the list you left out. This little trick specifically protects you against someone who might think they know your computer passwords.

Remember, always lock your machine when you are not in front of it, or better yet, have it automatically put in sleep mode.

The Tab Scope Firefox plug-in lets you preview tabs live just by hovering your mouse over them. The view is just like Vista’s, so you can see what’s going on in other open tabs without changing tabs.

Tab Scope also includes reload, refresh, and stop buttons in each preview window. When a preview is highlighted you can even scroll within the tab. Tab Scope can be downloaded for free.

Remember, you can move tabs in between separate Firefox windows.

Many people often make common mistakes when starting their own blog and have trouble making the site and posts consistent once they get into the groove. Every beginner blogger finds themselves needing to clean out those random posts you had before you found a topic to write about, after your views change, or you realize that your boss is reading what you write.

• 1. Catagorize - Bloggers never give categories any importance until they realize it helps others (and themselves) navigate the site. Most blogging platforms throw posts in the “default” category, so chances are the you’ll have many “general” posts from when you first started.
• 2. Reduce the number of categories you have to a handful - Here’s an important one, if you have more than 20 categories, it’s probably too much. Start deleting those categories that have only a post or two. In general, by default, they’ll end up in the “general” category.
• 3. Move the posts in the “general” category to the ones they belong in - Once all of those random posts are in the oversized default category, start going through them one by one and editing them so they fall in their new, more specific categorical home.

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Who Links To Me centralizes who is linking back to your website/blog, ranking among major search engines, and keeps a running total of total trackbacks. Who Links To Me also provides some HTML code to paste into your site for more information and to display results to visitors.

You can also look up information on other pages such as Myspace pages, stupid YouTube videos, and Johnny Depp fansites.