The download manager of Firefox is one of the most advanced features of a modern internet browser. From the age old Windows' default download options in Internet Explorer to Opera or Maxthon's improved download managers, we have seen them all. But effectively, Firefox download manager is the quickest we have seen so far, atleast for a browser. So what if I help you to do the icing on the cake in this article. I will share with you some tweaks and tricks of Firefox download manager solely. So let's get on with Firefox 3.

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Broadband has arrived in India not so long ago. But it has already reached the desks of almost all the internet users. Sadly though, the broadband service has not improved considering its exponentially growing popularity. This time my eye is on the premium Broadband Internet Service Providers in India and how they fair or fail to impress us in individual segments. So without much ado let us go there directly.
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Simple Thoughts now has a working Subscribe-by-email facility. Unlike many other blogs which provide this facility, we do not use FeedBurner. Instead we host it with PHPList, a popular mailing list software.

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Google Analytics is a trusted third party service that provides an accurate view and detailed analysis of performance statistics of your website without asking for your own resource. It may sound strange that some other website is tracking your performance without you having to provide anything. But that is where the contrasting concept comes in and Google Analytics differ from other self hosting analytics service providers like, Wusage and Webalizer.

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What do you mean by a virtual world? A place where you can come and work and chat and play and leave. What if I tell you about a whole new world where you can live, breathe, play, sing, dance, do every damn thing you can do in this (sorry?) life of yours? And what if "I make you an offer that you can't refuse?" No I am no Godfather. Today, let me take you to a virtual world where you can be a REAL millionaire! The world I am talking of, may seem nonexistent unless you bump into your Second Life. You can earn real money from a virtual world and loads of it. You can be a millionaire in less than 2 years! You can earn hefty amount just by spending some time in the internet and you can even rule a world (let it be virtual for now) of your own and make your own rules. All of them and more @ Second life. And here I am with not 1 or even 2 but 18 unique ways to guide you to a hefty check in US dollars through Second life. So start living now! Read more (2025 words) »

As you may have noted, Simple Thoughts sports an enhanced headline section with 4 tabs. They are:

• Headlines - Provides latest news we deem to be worthy of headline
• Hot Topics - Most popular news in the last 24 hours (from Google Analytics via free Gadging service)
• Most Voted - Most popular news ever based on your votes
• Most discussed - Most commented news in last 30 days

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This blog is actively protected by Comment Guard Pro, WordPress Comment Spam protection plugin for pro-bloggers and semi-pro bloggers. We don't allow any spam, even apparently innocuous ones in this blog. Even with that, thanks to my readers, we are close to 10, 000 comments on this blog. There are currently 2,394 posts and 9,739 comments in this weblog.

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CodeWeaver's released a port of Google's Chrome browser (review) for Linux. CrossOver Chromium is a Mac and Linux port of the open source Chromium web browser. CrossOver Chromium is free and available for download here.

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Windows XP, arguably the world's most popular operating system, still has lots of tricks up its sleeve. Today I will show you some hidden rooms, some unknown corners in this column that you never knew existed but wanted to. Without much ado lets login to the wonderful hidden world of Windows XP.
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Simple Thoughts Traffic

I am sure you have heard about long tail theory on web traffic. Just how important is it?

The pie-chart on your left shows the long tail traffic on Simple Thoughts blog. The colored segment represents the top 10 most popular articles on this blog and accounts for approximately 12% of traffic. The remaining 88% is contributed by the long tail. Read more (161 words) »