Stylish add-on in FireFox .

Add-ons are additional features which are developed by open source developers around the world. They create add-ons for a diverse of requirements. Some may be for visual features. Some for security and so on. Firefox has vaguely categorized this load of add-ons. We can browse these add-ns and can install the interested ones without affecting the basic functionality of Firefox.

One of the add-ons of firefox is STYLISH . It's an add-on for Visual performance. The basic capability of the add-on is that it can change the complete outlook of any site.It does not mean that the site will be changed forever and we are hacking it. It's appearance will be changed only inside our browser. We can apply a common setting for all the sites. Or we can apply different setting for each site. It depends upon the individuals taste. We can download styles from a large library. Or we can create our own style. Stylish is basically a CSS application.














Advantages :

We can edit the sites appearance to fit to our taste. One notable advantage I found is this. Most of us will have sensible eyes. Also to our disadvantage, many of the sites will use the basic layout of white background with black fonts. This will itch our eyes and our eyes will become tired soon while browsing. Using stylish, we can change these layouts to fit to our eyes and enjoy browsing.

Disadvantage :

Anything which has an advantage might have some disadvantage. Here in Stylish we have one disadvantage. Some styles might use up your RAM for considerable amounts. There are many styles which use the RAM in a minimal manner. But some styles which look awesome might end up consuming our RAM. The effects are displayed more n sites which have large amounts of videos, social sites. But one can control this problem by creating his own style by using the desired style as his template.

Firefox 5 is awesome !

Recently Mozilla corporation released Firefox 5. It has all the features of the previous versions but has also included some new features which are wonderful. One of the attractive features introduced is App Tab .

What is App Tab

It is also a tab but distinctive in the way it is represented. A normal tab can be PINNED as App Tab. After doing so, the App Tab will in a minimized fashion. It will not have a cross mark. So it cannot be closed. This marks the feature of App Tab.

Advantage ?

I'll explain the advantage through an example. Everyone of us will use a search engine for the most of our browsing time.So if we pin the tab for the search engine as an app tab, then it will be occupying a lesser space in the Tab area and also one will not accidentally close the tab.

In the similar manner, we can pin our social-site tab (mostly Facebook) so that it will remain in the browser without distracting us from other tasks. In case of Social-sites, the app tab will change its colour when some notification occurs. Ain't it cool ? Try it.

Normalization puzzle solved !

Everyone of us would have studied Database in our curriculum. Some of us might have worked in some of the DB applications too. But from the beginning , many of us might not have understood the concept of Normalization. Normalization is one of the very important topics in Database Management System. Here I've got a link for a video, which explains the concept of Normalization in an easy manner :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg7r3DgS3rA&feature=related

It explains only up to 3rd Normal Form. Though we will not use Normalization for our normal working , the knowledge about the concept is important.