Welcome to screencastr episode five. I am Michael Stewart and in this episode, I am going to show you how to create your own Smart Bookmark in Firefox 3.0. A smart bookmark is more like a bookmark photo than a standard bookmark as it contains other bookmarks such as this one here. In this tutorial I will show you how to create your own smart bookmark. To start off, we go into Bookmarks and click on Organise Bookmarks. Then we can go to where we want to use our bookmark in a Smart Bookmarks' folder. I will get rid of these two so I'll make them again, then go to Organize and click on New Bookmark.
For the name I am just going to type in 10 Most Visited Sites, then in the location field we can now type in the text which we will create a smart bookmark with our 10 Most Visited Sites. The text to create that is here, I am just going to paste it in. It's place:querytype=0&sort=8&maxresults=10.That will be shown, in this show, just screencastr.com. Click Add and it adds the 10 Most Visited Sites as we can see. If we go to our Smart Bookmarks we can now see the 10 most visited sites. Now if we go back to this Bookmark organizer, I'll now add another bookmark which is the 10 Most Visited Sites with screencastr in the name .
Now I paste this into here and as you can see it selected the one before, place:querytype=0&sort=8&maxresults=10 again. Except this time we have another one & terms=screencastr. This will only have things which has screencastr. This one here, all these have screencastr in the title. Now let's make another one which is the 5 Most Visited Sites with domain of screencastr.com. So name of this we'll put 5 Most Visited screencastr.com pages and type the location there. Same as one before, except instead of saying type we say domain= and it's the results of 5 instead 10.The type and sort are still the same.
So we are going to add and if we go to up here you will see these the 5 Most Visited pages. We can also add one from the most visited bookmarks and I make new one, 15 Most Visited Bookmarks and location of that would be place:querytype=2 now instead of 1 and sort still equals 8. Now I tell you what the actual type=1 means. As here, of the type, there are three different options, we again have 0, 1, or 2. 0 means it searches through the browser history, 1 which is what we have now means it searched through the bookmarks. So for 1 it's going to find out total 15 most visited bookmarks and 2 it searches through both your history and your bookmarks. For the maxresults there which is this one here, we now has 15, but you can also equal to 0 which will return all the results possible.
Now we can click Add and if we view this one, we can see our 15 most visited bookmarks to there. There is also a lot of option to the sort field. For example let's say you go back to any page of screencastr in the title and we can leave the maxresults the same, but this time we're going to change the sort. In all the examples here we had sort 8. What Sort 8 means is sort by the visit count, how many times you visited that page in your history and that's in a descending order. Sort 7 means the visit count in an ascending order. Another ones you might want to use is sort by the title A to Z which is 1 or the opposite way, Z to A which is 2.
So this one we are going to sort by the title. So that's number 1, A to Z. And it's going to be add that and as you can see here pages screencastr and it's sorted by the title A to Z. The options for all of these primary sort, query type and maxresults, domain and type will be available in the show of screencastr.com.
This week download of the week is startupdelayer, a free windows learning program, the stagiest applications it launched when you log in to windows. You just can set delaying tool so your computer will no longer be swamped, each time you start up. Here I selected delaying tool for the most CPU intensive programs. As you can see here Launchy is delayed by 5 seconds, blue trip's tray by 11, 12 by 20 and iTuneshelper by 30. You can also set delays for all of your startup applications.
That way when your computer starts up, all of these programs might be hogging for CPU time. Once you set up startup play, you just click here to activate it and I'll choose the invisible version.
This week I have been clicked to for Twitter users out there which by the way if you are on to twitter.com/stewertizer. The tip is how to remove the annoying twitter election bar which won't disappear forever when closed. To do this you are going to need to have Adblock Plus installed into Firefox. So you just go and search for -- if you go for Adblock Plus and click on third one down for Firefox Add ons.
You can then click on a Add to Firefox here which I have already done and I have Adblock Plus installed up here. Once you have Adblock Plus go into Open the preferences, which is one here and then go into Add Filter. Then you need to type in this here which will be available at screencastr.com, press Enter and hit OK. Now as you can see the Twitter Election bar has disappeared.
The website of the week for this week is readatwork.com which provides a cool interface to read books while you are at work. Readatwork provides this windows, this flash windows interface and as you can see here there is a bunch of books. You just click on them and select one to read and they come up in the PowerPoint. Now it looks like you are watching a PowerPoint slide, but it's actually the book, and the size has been arranged so that it look like a book.
That's it for this week episode of screencastr. If you want links to readatwork.com for the web pages we mentioned in this week's episode, that'll be available on the show of screencastr.com. If you have the questions, comments or suggestions just send in email to michael@screencastr.com or you can post through in the forums at forums.screencastr.com. Until next time, keep watching screencastr.com.
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