With a little help from my friends

Oh no! It's not yet another list of 'best free software'.

Umm, well, perhaps it is:)
Here are some tools which I have been using for quite some time and they come quite handy. Just sharing the information for general knowledge.
Bye the way, I am assuming that you use firefox, and not IE. Otherwise your place in hell is reserved :)

OK. enough bakwaas.



1. Firefox addons - IETab - with this you can sign into two gmail/ymail accounts simultaneously in 2 different tabs. link - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

Another useful addon will be All-In-one sidebar. link - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1027 Use the gtalk sidebar along with this. That requires no gmail/gtalk sign in, you can chat in a sidebar, and close it as and when emergency arises. Yeah Bitsians, you know what I mean.:) link for it -
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4708

2. Many a times when your terminal gets incapacitated due to the wrath of viruses, you can't access task manager or registry editing tools. For this you need following software. It's just some 96kb and worth a shot. Download it from my google site http://sites.google.com/site/tronixcept/Home/Scanner.doc?attredirects=0 .After downloading - rename it as .exe file (reason - I can't upload .exe file so just changed the extension)

3. To protect your usb from some kind of virus transfer use http://realtrix.blogspot.com/2009/01/usb-virus-protection-stop-usb-pen.html . Sometimes it happens that you are unable to delete some file. It says ''some process is using this file blah blah" But you don't know which process/program is using the deleterious file. Use unlocker.exe, it finds out which process has locked the file and shuts down the process. Download it here - http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/unlocker1.8.7.exe

4. If you are a die-hard note taker, and don't have MS one note, which is one of the rare good software by microsoft, you can use Google Notebook. Also download firefox extension of it. http://www.google.com/notebook/ . If your work includes reading lots of IEEE type papers better use Foxit reader, and use it to the fullest. You can comment/color/underline or do anything you want with the document. Link - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_in

5. And last in the list would be the 'Bookmarklets' . There are so many of them. Just visit the page to know more. FYI I use their hide all image bookmark, which hides all image on any page by just clicking on the bookmark (see figure below.)