As I value screen space more than gold, I hate it when status messages show up and bloat my list size to twice its original size. Most people think that this is the aftermath of Google’s new Buzz. Well, no actually, this happens because the setting to hide the statuses isn’t an inbuilt feature in Google Chat, but is a Google Labs feature. Its called Muzzle and Google have silently removed it from the Labs database, along with it some other features listed here [Gmail Labs graduation and retirement]. I can understand when they say they want to clean up, but keeping the Back to Beta feature which just adds a beta label to GMail and eliminating Muzzle seems utterly stupid.

The only solution that I have found so far is to use a greasemonkey script which will hide the statuses and make it behave normally. You can find it here [GMail Muzzle Lab Reviving]. If you are not familiar with scripts read this [Installing Scripts]. I will update this post when there is a better alternative to this.

1. Navigate to the folder :
   • XP users :C:Documents and Settings\USER_NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Activision\CoDWaW\players\profiles\
   • Vista users : C:Users\USER_NAME\AppData\Local\Activision\CoDWaW\players\profiles\
2. Delete all the folders in there.
3. Create a new folder with the name of the Profile ex: tHeSiD (folder remains empty)
4. Create text file: active.txt (must NOT be readonly)
5. Open active.txt and type in your profile folder name (tHeSiD)

Thanks to ju7er117 at mininova for this fix :)

I eventually disabled the plugin and the titles were reverted back to WordPress default. Blog name – Post title. I didnt want that either. I want Post title | Blog name. I checked the template header file and rearranged the wp_title() function and the bloginfo(‘name’) variable. There was still a problem with that, the separator was still on the left side. The title looked like this ” » Post title | Blog name “.

I went on to codex and researched a bit, unlike the older versions wp_title() does take parameters. Setting the right parameters can help customize the way the title of the post is displayed. Here is an example, one I used for this blog.

Originally

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<?php bloginfo('name'); ?><?php wp_title(); ?>

This resulted in a Title of this format. “Blogname » Post title”

You can change that to this

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<?php wp_title('|',true,'right'); ?><?php bloginfo('name'); ?>

This results in a title of this format “Post title | Blogname”

A small tweak but really helpful when you want your search listings proper.

For more information and customizations of your own read the wp_title() documentation here. Template Tags/wp title

1. Replace vmmouse driver with mouse driver in xorg.conf
Open the xorg.conf file

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sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "VMware Mouse"
Driver      "vmmouse"

Scroll down to the Driver entry in that section and change vmmouse to mouse
Save and reboot.
This is just a minor fix, in some cases there might still be problems in full screen mode and you cant shift from the virtual machine to the host easily.

2. To fix all the above issues and enable proper vmmouse implementation in the guest,
Open the xorg.conf file

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sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

and add this to the xorg.conf file

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Section "ServerFlags"
        Option      "AutoAddDevices" "false"
EndSection

Save the file and reboot.
This will enable true vmmouse and the mouse will track perfectly.

PS: I used sudo here, if you haven’t configured sudo on your system, enable it or just use the root shell.

Tested on (FF3.0 Vista/XP)

To get it to work,

1. Enter about:config in the address bar and hit enter
2. Look for a value named middlemouse.paste, you can use the filter for searching it.
3. Double click on the value to change it to true.
4. Thats it, you can now paste with the Middle Click!

about:config showing the default setting for the option

about:config page showing the option changed to true

In the explorer, above the folders bar, there is a Favorites link section which has links to <User Folder> My Docs etc. To that list you can add as many links as you want. All you have to do to add a link is drag the folder into that section and it automatically creates a link.

Add your most frequently visited folders in it. After adding the folder you can directly go to it with just a click! No more C:>Folder1>Folder2 navigation. However deep the folder maybe, you can go there in an instant. Its really helpful when you handle a lot of files with explorer. You can also switch between folders in an instant making copying and moving very very easy and less confusing.

After adding the link, if you are unable to see the link in the section, find the separator between the links and the folders bar sections and drag it till all your links are visible.

Here is a screenshot.

Favorite Links section in action