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New Laptops with Synpatics touchpad released late last year débuted with either multi-touch or partial gesture support such as ChiralMotion, two-finger scroll & pinch zoom. Some lucky users with older hardware was able to update the driver to get these features while some needed a hacked driver (no supported on Win64 as the signatures were destroyed).
But ALL Synaptics touchpads support multi-touch such as two-finger scroll. Here's a tip on how to get that. First install, Scrybe by Synaptics to get gesture support. If two-finger scroll isn't enabled, even in the touchpad settings, go on to get a resident app to unlock the two-finger scroll.
It should be exam period for polytechnic students right now (or just over for some). Here's a tip i read up earlier today. Firefox 3 was a great improvement over Firefox 2 which had one of the worst memory issues since version 0.8.
Firefox 3 also added a new feature dubbed the "awesomebar", it use SQlite to store the data as a database. But there's a catch, over time, writing, erasing & modification to data will cause the database to be fragmented. Result: slow performance over time and especially with version 3.5.
Mozilla had made a script that will VACUUM (de-fragment in SQlite terms) the database but required a browser restart. Now they released another work around that does not require that.
After VACUUMing, the adressbar won't hang anymore and overall big performance increase. When firefox slows down again, its about time you do this again. The Mozilla team is working on a extension right now to automate that, currently in experimental stage.
How do you increase the space between links which look like they are squeezed together?
An illustration is as follows:
All you have to do is:
1. In blogger, go to Layout, Edit HTML
2. Control +F this code: .sidebar li, #BlogArchive1 li {
3. Below it, there should be this code: line-height:
4. Change the value according to how large you want the space to be.
And you're done! 
For example, if you want the picture to be at the 'post' area,
Paste this following code just below the opening tag.
#main {
background-image: url("http://YOUR-URL-HERE.COM");
width: 661px;
margin: 7px;
padding: 20px 0 0 0;
color: $textColor;
font: $textFont;
Replace 'YOUR URL HERE' with the URL of your picture. You need to host the picture somewhere, like on photobucket or tinypic, then obtain the URL of the picture from there.
Point to note: If your picture is smaller than the 'post' space, it will 'tile' itself and become a repeated picture. This effect is good for blog backgrounds which you don't want to be a flat, solid colour, but want some texture for it.
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