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Yes I said Vertical Selection. This came out as another accidental discovery when I was trying to select set of paras and I was able to select them vertically and It happened because I had ALT key pressed while selecting. Here is a sample :

This is very hand specially in case of list points where you have same words repeating for every line. Just select them vertically and delete. Hope you find this intresting.

While the browser war gets hotter after every new release claiming to be the worlds fastest web-browser, a new free online service from Futuremark suitably named PeaceKeeper lets users benchmark web-browsers allowing them to compare scores on their systems.

For benchmarking the service does not require any addins except in Internet Explorer, the benchmark is designed to simulate real-world browsing and can be accessed here.

Many times we require only selected files from an archive but had to download the full archive because there is no other option, free windows application LoadScout is an easy solution to this problem but if you are uncomfortable installing a standalone application for this rarely used functionality, Firefox addon ArchView will get the job done right from your browser.

Once installed Archview lets your preview RAR, ZIP and ISO files online without downloading the whole archive.

The open-source project is hosted at Sourceforge - http://archview.sourceforge.net/, and the Firefox addon can be downloaded from official page here.

Old application compatibility has always been an roadblock preventing users and organizations from upgrading to newer operating-system technologies, to take care of the problem Microsoft has now introduced Virtual XP Mode in its upcoming Windows 7 operating system, a fully functional licensed copy of Windows XP SP3 will be available via Windows Virtual PC Beta to users of Windows 7 Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions enabling users to run applications in virtual Windows XP environment from within Windows 7 offering seamless integration of core functionality.

Microsoft has now announced the public download release date for Windows 7 XP Mode to May 5, once released the virtual XP mode will offer single-click launching of Windows XP Mode applications with USB, printer redirection, clipboard sharing and folder-sharing features with seamless integration.

TidyRead is another new entrant in the huge list of Firefox add-ons; this add-on allows you to view the webpage with better readability and that too without any ads on the page.

It allows you to choose the color of your choice for the background in order to get better readability, the fond size and margin width can also be decided.

Moreover the ads from the webpage don’t appear on the TidyRead page, which off course is something most of us long for.

Setting for TidyRead can be accesses under the add-ons list, which allow you to make the choice so that it is enabled only for the pages from the sites you want to us e TidyRead for.

So if you are interested in better readability without any ads on the webpage go ahead and try this add-on.

Install TidyRead Via ghacks.net