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Have you been in a situation where Firefox crashed and you lost track of all the tabs that were opened, important ones and you have to fiddle back to your brain to remember them. SessionSaver is a Firefox Extension that saves your last session, you can even have it restored everytime Firefox starts.

It even claims to save windows, tabs, even things you were typing (I haven’t experienced this part of the fun).

More Details about SessionSaver.

Eclipse Grand Challenge – cut the memory footprint in half with the upcoming 3.2M5 Eclipse SDK milestone.

JAR files are now read more selectively, and thus interesting portions remain in the cache longer without consuming lots of memory. User editing experience is thus significantly improved on large workspaces containing big JARs. As a consequence, our experiments show that the memory requirement for developing Eclipse in Eclipse can be lowered to 128MB only (i.e. passing -Xmx128m to the VM) as opposed to 256MB as currently specified in the eclipse.ini file.

References

• Eclipse 3.2 M5 – New and Noteworthy
• Download Eclipse 3.2M5

Adobe had promised about easing the licensing scheme of Flash Media Server with Dynamo, which brings Flash Media Server’s license to more or less like that we had with FlashCom Server, with a bit more flexible option here.

Dynamo have 3 license profiles to choose from

1. 150 Connections/Unlimited bandwidth/unlimited vhosts
2. 1000 Connections/40 Mbps / unlimited vhosts
3. 2500 Connections/ 25 Mbps / unlimited vhosts
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Open Source Downloads – Flash MX, Flash MX 2004, Flashcom, JSFL.

Everyone have blogged about Design Pattern Library and User Interface Library from Yahoo! Developer Network. Let me do my bit for the archive.

The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, HTML and AJAX. The UI Library Utilities facilitate the implementation of rich client-side features by enhancing and normalizing the developer’s interface to important elements of the browser infrastructure (such as events, in-page HTTP requests and the DOM). The Yahoo UI Library Controls produce visual, interactive user interface elements on the page with just a few lines of code and an included CSS file. All the components in the Yahoo! User Interface Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all uses.

Download Yahoo! UI Library
Join Yahoo! UI Library mailing list.

The Yahoo! Design Pattern Library is an evolving set of sophisticated design guidelines for building web pages and applications. The design patterns do not require the Yahoo! UI Library components, although using the UI Library can help you more easily implement the patterns.

The Yahoo! UI Library downloads contains documentations, source files and examples of the various libraries.

While you are at it, don’t forget to read the article, Graded Browser Support By Nate Koechley, Senior Web Developer at Yahoo! Inc.

Whenever I do an install or a re-intall of Windows, I do coupla Must-Do-Tweaks. I have them written down so I know how to execute them in steps. Let me archive some of them here for future reference.

Customize Folder Context Menu

Start > Run and type “Regedit”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\Shell\]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shell\]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Shell\]

Shutdown is Slower – Windows XP

Start > Run and type “Regedit”

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\SYSTEM
\CurrentControlSet
\Control
\Session Manager
\Memory Management]

Set ClearPageFileAtShutdown value to 0

Alternate method for Windows XP Professional

Start > Run and type “Secpol.msc”
Click Local Policies | Security Options
In the right-pane, set “Shutdown: Clear virtual memory pagefile” to “Disabled”

However, this setting is not the only cause for slow shutdowns. Non-responsive programs and Services also contribute to slow shutdowns. Lowering the WaitToKillServiceTimeOut may help as well. The WaitToKillServiceTimeout value name in the registry allows you to specify a length of time that the service control manager must wait for services to complete the shut-down request. To do this;

Start > Run and type “Regedit”

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\SYSTEM
\CurrentControlSet
\Control
\WaitToKillServiceTimeout

Then, reduce the Service timeout value (default being 20000ms) to your preference.

Similarly, set the AutoEndTasks to 1 in the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER
\Control Panel
\Desktop

“AutoEndTasks” value determines whether user processes end automatically when the user either logs off or shuts down Windows 2000/XP.
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