Listen To Pandora Web Radio From Anyywhere: HTTPS Everywhere

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Many web-based music services are raising lately, and we all have used them at least once, specially when away from home, or can access our music library. One of the coolest one though, and maybe one of the first ones to be born, is Pandora. Unfortunately this amazing service is currently available only in the US, leaving everyone else without this fantastic resource.

As a matter of fact, using Pandora through the HTTPS protocol bypasses this limitation, allowing everyone to access the service, no matter where located. The trick is simply to use a software that forces the web-browser to utilize a secure HTTP session any time that this is available.

The extension is called HTTPS Everywhere: it is available for both Chrome and Firefox and, after installed, it works seamlessly testing if the website you are currently visiting allows HTTPS sessions and, for Pandora, this works.

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Speed Up Firefox: How To Reduce RAM Usage

If you are tired to see how your computer starts to slow down after you’ve been using Firefox for a while, I’m going to teach you how to reduce the amount of memory that Firefox is allowed to use for caching.

You can also set Firefox to ensure that when you minimize it, Firefox will move to your hard drive, and as a result it will take up less than 10MB of memory while minimized.

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Download an Entire Facebook Photo Album: FacePAD

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I just want to share with you a new extension I found bouncing around on the net, that will allows you to batch download sets of Facebook photos with one single click!

You could simply click on every single photo and download it, but when they become more than 20, the job starts to get boring.

FacePAD is a Firefox extensions that makes this effort easier because,letting you grab all the photos from any Facebook album in a single move.

Better known as the Facebook Photo Album Downloader, FacePAD will not only let you grab your own photo album, but will also let you download your friends’ photo album, event albums, and group albums with the click of a button.

Here is the video:
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How To Make Your Add-Ons Run In Firefox 3 Beta

A few days ago I read a very good article on LifeHacker.com and I thought that it would have been useful for you too.

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I just upgraded to version 3.0b of Firefox but many of my favorite extensions are disabled, with no way of getting them to work.

Editors at LifeHacker have found a great trick in order to set Firefox to ignore compatibility, and let it run any extension even if designed for other versions.
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How To Assign Keywords To Bookmarks In Firefox

Are you someone who works a lot with tabs and needs to open millions of sites rapidly, without even losing a second typing a URL into the address bar?

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With this little trick, I am going to show how to assign a keyword shortcut to your Firefox bookmarks, so that you will have to type just one word instead of a long text and slashes.
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Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts List

Everybody loves shortcuts. Whether you use them when you drive to avoid traffic or with your computer, they are always better than the normal way.

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When you are working with your browser and you are in a hurry or, just like me, don’t like doing things slow, shortcuts are way better than the mouse.

Today I decided to write, or at least to begin writing, a growing keyboard shortcuts list for Firefox.

If you want to get one added, just leave a comment below this article, and I will add it as soon as possible.
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