FireShot is a good and easy tool to help you make screenshots of your webpages, to embed in your documents, user manuals, SOPs etc.

FireShot

Fireshot is a plugin of Firefox browser, which will help you take screenshots of your webpage or website documents, and not only screenshots, but it also provides an enrionment which will let you modify your screenshots, append text in it, write in different font colors for documentation, show directions or arrows to show the text directions etc.
As said on its official website: FireShot is a extension for Firefox and Internet Explorer that captures, edits, annotates, organizes, exports and prints screenshots of your web pages.

FireShot IE

FireShot is also available to be installed in your Internet Explorer, from where you can make your screenshots using IE.

FireShot Download

To download FireShot for Firefox or IE, or to check out more details about FireShot, please have a look at its official website below:
http://screenshot-program.com/fireshot/

Or goto the Mozilla Addons website, to install it on your Firefox directly, by searching it at:
https://addons.mozilla.org/

If you are looking for Thunderbird Calendar, a free alternative to Outlook Calendar, then this post may be helpful.

Thunderbird Calendar, Lightning Calendar

Mozilla Thunderbird, which is actually a Free Alternative to Microsoft Outlook for Windows, Linux etc., also supports Calendar known as Lightning Calendar, a Thunderbird extension. Through Thunderbird Calendar or Lightning Calendar, you will be able to manage your daily schedule tasks, events, meetings etc.

Share Your Meetings Through Thunderbird Lightning Calendar

Even you can share your meetings with your friends or colleagues by sending them invitations, whether they are Thunderbird Lightning Calendar users, or Outlook Calendar users. It also supports invitations from Outlook Calendar meetings or events, which will be automatically embedded with your Thunderbird Lightning Calendar after accepting those invitations.

Download Thunderbird Lightning Calendar

Check out the following website to download Lightning Calendar or search for it on Mozilla :
Lightning Calendar

You can also sync your Thunderbird Calendar with Google Calendar through Provider for Google Calendar addon. For details on Thunderbird Addons, check out the following url:
http://www.webtechquery.com/index.php/2010/03/mozilla-thunderbird-free-alternative-to-outlook/

If you are facing the IISPassword Error like follow:

IISPassword The page cannot be displayed

in your website, installed locally or on any website / domain, then this is probably the issue that your server has been installed on Windows Server, and there will be a .htaccess file existing in your root or some other folder, where your webpage exists.

How To Remove IISPassword Error

For removing this error from your website, simply access your web folder, and delete the (hidden) .htaccess file from your web folder. For example, if you are getting this error on a domain say http://www.webtechquery.com, then the .htaccess file should be existing in the root folder. Or if you are accessing a webpage existing in your folder inside root or somewhere else, then the .htaccess file should be existing in that folder.

Simply remove the .htaccess file through your ftp or any other resource, and your problem will be solved.

Remove FTP Files Through FireFTP

For removing the file through FTP, you can use Firefox addon FireFTP, which could be easy for you to manage your FTP files like delete, upload or download your files existing in your domain or website, without any use of FTP software.

However, if you want to use the .htaccess file, then it is preferable to install your website or domains on Linux Server instead of Windows Server.

From the new web browsers out there, Firefox is a more faster, less buggy, and advanced browser, as compared to others.

Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is one of the great browsers I’ve ever seen, while on second number I like Google Chrome. But Firefox actually is the best, because of so many things, from which I will try to explain some of them below.

Firefox Features

• It is Free, and could be downloaded very easily
• It supports multiple platforms or multiple operating systems like Windows, Ubuntu, Linux etc., even its mobile versions are also on the go.
• It supports addons, extensions, themes etc.
• It is much lighter in weight as compared to Internet Explorer.

Firefox Extensions / Firefox Addons

The support for addons and extensions in Firefox is another great feature of Firefox, which may have supported Firefox in getting more popular in the world of web. Through Firefox Addons, many of ours browser life will get much easy and simple. As there are thousands of addons, which could be easy for a Progammer / Developer, a QA, an SEO expert, a Business men, a Grafix guy etc. etc.

From many of the addons in Firefox, I’m listing below some, which may be useful to all of us.

ImgLikeOpera: It will give you the option of not loading the images while loading any webpage, or only load the cache images, or even the user defined filters as well, which will make your browsing more fast.
AdBlock Plus: It will let you block any of the frames, images etc. in any webpage, so that the next time you load the page, that image will be blocked automatically. Again it is a good tool for making your browsing faster.
FlashBlock: It will completely block all the flash files (swf, flv etc) from any page you visit. And will show you the play button in every flash, clicking on it will enable that flash for you to start loading.
Search Status: It will show you the webpage or website rankings, that what Google PageRank has ranked the current webpage or website, and even the Alexa Rating like what Alexa has ranked the current page you are visiting.
TableTools: It will help you providing features of filtering and sorting your web reports, like in MS Excel, OpenOffice SpreadSheet etc. and you can have same type of functionality in websites or webpages.
LinkChecker: It will help you counting the number of total links in a webpage as well as the status of working and non-working links existing in a webpage.
FireFTP: It will let you upload and download files from and to your FTP server, without needing any additional software.

Even there are many more like WebDeveloper, Colorzilla, Firebug, Gmail, Hotmail Alerts and Notifications, Sending and Receiving of Twitter Messages etc.

Download Firefox and Its Plugins

For downloading Firefox, goto the official website of Firefox or Mozilla and get the latest version of Firefox from there.

For the addons and extensions, goto the FireFox Addons website, and search for the plugins over there to get them.

If you are looking for a Free alternative to Microsoft Office, then Open Office will be the best solution for you.

Why To Use OpenOffice ?

Besides other advantages of using OpenOffice, some good characteristics and features of using OpenOffice are:

• Its Free
• It supports different platforms like Windows, Linux (Ubuntu) etc.
• It feels you like you are in the Microsoft Office environment
• It supports the ISO/IEC standard OpenDocument Format (ODF)
• It supports most of the Microsoft Office files format like XLS, XLSX, DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX etc.

From some of the commonly used programs of Microsoft Office, OpenOffice has also introduced related software like OpenOffice Word Processor as a competitor of Microsoft Word, OpenOffice Spreadsheet as competitor of Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice Presentation as a competitor of Microsoft Powerpoint etc.

OpenOffice Word Processor

Similar to Microsoft Word, OpenOffice Word Processor aka OpenOffice Writer can be used to write documents, which can be read and saved in the file formats like DOC, DOCX, ODT etc.
Even the documents can easily be exported to PDF format, without need of any third party tools or plugins.

OpenOffice Spreadsheet

Similar to Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice Spreadsheet aka OpenOffice Calc can be used to maintain worksheets or spreadsheets, which can be read and saved in the file formats like XLS, XLSX, ODS etc.
From most of the basic features of Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice Spreadsheet can be used for preparing spreadsheets or worksheets, drawing charts, inserting objects etc.

OpenOffice Presentation

Similar to Microsoft Powerpoint, OpenOffice Presentation aka OpenOffice Impress can be used to create different types of presentations, using several templates, which can be read and saved in the file formats like PPT, PPTX, ODP etc.
Even the documents can easily be exported to PDF and SWF formats, without need of any third party tools or plugins.

Download OpenOffice

You can download OpenOffice from the following website:
http://download.openoffice.org/index.html

For more details on OpenOffice, check out the official website of OpenOffice:
http://www.openoffice.org/

Mozilla Thunderbird

OpenOffice has not released any software as competitor of Microsoft Outlook yet. But there are other free software, which can be used as an alternative to Microsoft Outlook. Mozilla Thunderbird is one of the best alternatives to Microsoft Outlook, for Windows, Linux etc. For more details about Mozilla Thunderbird, you can check out another of my post at:
http://www.webtechquery.com/index.php/2010/03/mozilla-thunderbird-free-alternative-to-outlook/

If you are unable to connect to FTP server in Ubuntu (Linux), then the most easy way is to use Mozilla FireFox FireFTP. You don’t need to install any separate software for uploading and downloading on your FTP server. Simply install this addon in your FireFox, and you will be able to upload and download files from your FTP server.

Why FireFTP

From some of its great features, the amazing feature of FireFTP is that it is Cross-Platform. It works on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux. As it is an addon of FireFox, so there is no worry of its availability on different platforms. The other good feature is that it is Free.

Download FireFTP

You can download FireFTP through its official website FireFTP, or search for FireFTP on FireFox Addons website.

As we all know that Windows XP License is no more available and only option now is to purchase Windows 7 License.

But what about the users who still want to use Windows XP?

Let me explain the answer for the ones who are really fans of XP and now they want to purchase its license, after the usage of pirated versions of XP:
After having little talk and discussion with the Microsoft and its registered clients, who sale Microsot products, it has been observed that there are still chances for us to use License copy of Windows XP. The best and valid option for the us to use Windows XP is to buy the latest license version of Windows, i.e. Windows 7 nowadays, and on behalf of that license key, you can apply for the Windows XP license key to Microsoft, informing them that you want to use Windows XP on behalf of Windows 7 license. Soon you will be provided a Key from Microsoft, and the what? Simply download any Windows XP setup from internet or install from any CD, and give your Microsoft’s provided key of Windows XP to start using the license of Windows XP.

If you still have any confusions, simply contact your nearest Microsoft center, or visit Microsoft or Windows 7 for further details.