If you are a Firefox user, there is one nice feature that you should know about, Profiles. Firefox allows users to create multiple profiles, each of which has its own history, bookmarks, settings and even add-ons.This can be of considerable use if multiple people use Firefox on the same computer and account, and if you use Firefox in different ways. If you are a web developer and use Firefox, you probably have a number of add-ons related to web development installed, however they might not be as useful during casual browsing.Unfortunately the profile feature isn’t as visible as it could be. You need to launch Firefox with a special command line parameter in order to even show it. Currently if you launch Firefox with a ”-P” dialog, it will show the list of...

Your hard drive is quite likely to be one of the slowest components of you computer. Compared to how fast data is transferred between other components of your computer, the hard drive moves at a crawling pace.Often this does not cut it when you have to do hard-drive intensive operations. Your RAM is literally thousands of times faster than your hard drive. So unless you need tons of storage space, you can gain huge boosts in speed simply by using your RAM instead of your hard disk.Of course there is often no option to use the RAM in lieu of your hard drive. This is where RAMDisk comes in. It is a small application that provides you a virtual disk drive, which instead of storing data to the hard drive stores that data to the RAM. This drive will then show up as a normal partition on your...

Earlier this month, Joomla announced the availability of Joomla 2.5.2. Calling it a security release, it emphasised on the goal to continue to provide regular and frequent updates to the community. You can download the latest version of Joomla here. Alternatively, you can update from an earlier version of Joomla by downloading the package here. In order to update to Joomla 2.5.2, you would have to follow the basic principles with any upgrade. First on the list is backup! For a detailed tutorial on backing up your Joomla site, read this piece by OSTraining. Once you have backed up your site content, login to your admin panel. Depending up on the version of Joomla you are using, you will find a flashing icon indicating an update is available. Simply click on the icon, select the package...