How to save your last sessions when Firefox dies

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Here is what it happened: the Firefox (in my case, portable) died (a.k.a frozen or not responding) suddenly when I enter a web site. When I killed (what a cruel term to use) the Firefox and restart it again, I chose to restore the sessions before it went haywire. Then, it froze again, in the same way as the previous time. I have opened many interesting pages in separate tabs. I really hate the idea of having to look for them from scratch gain.
Here is what I have done to save my other sessions. Please remember to make a copy of the file (sessionstore.js) you are going to edit before doing anything.

1. go to "data\profile" under the directory of Firefox.
2. open the file sessionstore.js with a text editor
3. find the record of the evil session (look for the URL, the address)
4. the session that should have caused the problem is recorded in the form of "{entries:[{url:"http://...", where the part starting with "http://" is the address you last viewed
   
5. find the matching bracket to "{" and delete from there to the "{" in step 4
   

If the above steps are of no problem, then you can start Firefox again. There you should get all other sessions reopened, except the culprit.
Readers who have this far probably have problems with step 5, because the file sessionstore.js is written in a whole single line. If you can find an editor that can match brackets of all kinds ("()", "{}", "[]"), things will be easy. As always it is, notepad of Windows does not have this feature. Notepad++ and Sakura in "Free text editors" can do the trick.

Creating a Mac-on-Stick using Mini vMac

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Creating a Mac-on-Stick using Mini vMac enables us to have a Mac 128K or Plus running on a USB in, not only Mac OS (Classic and OS X), but also Windows, Linux, and even Pocket PC.

The Top Ten Free Website Tools and Services

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There can be as many top times as there are "things" in the world, but here is The Top Ten Free Website Tools and Services. on entrepreneur.com. This may become the keys to the question: "How can I write and maintain a successful blog".

1. Google Analytics
2. MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog
3. HitTail and 103Bees
4. FeedBurner
5. MorgueFile Photos
6. OpenAds
7. The 37Signals Suite
8. WordPress
9. Overture Keyword Selector Tool
10. Pew Internet

I know some of them them. Will find out how the rest got to top ten.
As for top ten blog service, the following are nominated by toptenreviews.com.

1. WordPres
2. TypePad
3. Blogger
4. Yahoo 360
5. AOL Journals
6. Windows Live Spaces
7. Xanga
8. LiveJour
9. Vox
10. MySpace

My favorite Blogger ranks number three, as compared to MySpace at number 10. It is amazing that the number two is not for free, considering the fact that all others are free!

How to Write for PukiWiki Powered Pages

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Pukiwiki is a Wiki software. The following is wikipedia's definition.

PukiWiki is a Japanese Wiki software written in PHP, originally started as a fork of another WikiWikiWeb clone known as "YukiWiki", written in Perl.

Pukiwiki's official site gives some more details about it.
The following information are only for readers with Japanese capabilities.

• PukiWiki Help
• PukiWiki Manual by Murayama Lab
• How to write in PukiWiki
  

Some quick references here.

Format	Grammar
Table	|item1|item2|
Carriage Return	"~" or "&br;" at the end of the passage
Font size	&size(20){inline element};
Link	[[Califonia University: http://www.nagasakipu.ac.jp/]]
Unordered List	-item 1 --sub item 1
Ordered List	+item 1 ++sub item 1
Headers	*Header 1 **Sub Header 1 ***Sub-sub Header 1
Note	((Notes))

Other information related to "How To" can be found at HowToAll.

How to Make the Best of Your USB Memory

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This is how to make the best of your USB memory. Be sure about security though (Protection of files on a personal computer).
Use the same web browser wherever you go. No fuss about differences of book marks, no worry about browsing history. Mozillar Firefox Portable Edition is the solution.
Use the same mail soft wherever you go, in the same way as web browser. Mozillar Thunderbird Portable Edition is the solution. In case the settings (pop & SMTP etc.) does not work out for your server, EdMax is a nice choice for Japanese users.
View Google Calendar wherever you go, even in an off-line environment. Mozilla Sunbird Portable Edition is the solution. The usage is a bit tricky and can be summarized as follows. The same thing can be done with Thunderbird too.

Select "Tools - Add-ons", and click "Get Extentions" to the add-on page. There should be a recommended "Provider for Google Calendar by Philipp Kewisch". Download it and then go back to "Add-ons" window and press "Install" button to install what you have just downloaded.
Login to Google's account and display your calender. Click "Manage Calender" and click on the calender you want to view with Sunbird. At the bottom part (second from the bottom) of the attribute screen of the selected calender, click on "XML" of "Calender Address" to display the URL of the calender.
Finally, go back to Sunbird, select "New Calender", choose "on the network", then at the next screen, choose "Google Calendar" and copy the URL displayed in the second step above, to "Location". Then, input the password for Google account. In the last window, give your calender a name of your choice, and you are all set!

To save the trouble of looking for the commands of your portable treasures. You can write a autorun.inf file for the USB with contents like below.

[autorun]
icon=.\portables\pc21mem\USB FlashMemory ClipDrive Yellow.ico
shell=open
open=.\Portables\PStart.exe
action=start the launcher
shell\UnplugDrive\command=UnplugDrive.exe /C
shell\UnplugDrive=Unplug the USB Drive

Where, Pstart.exe and UnplugDrive.exe can be obtained as follows. The icons file is obtained from here, but can be any icon file you designed.

• PStart.exe from pegtop.net
  
• UnplogDrive.exe from Nifty (direct link)

Having copied the file to the root of your USB drive, the application launcher will be started once you connect it to a computer. When you right click on the drive, you will also have a menu for unplugging the drive.
There are also many other applications that can be installed on USB memory. PortableApps.com provide about 50 great such kind of softwares. With them, you will not feel sorry that your favorite computer is at hand. The following are just a few examples.

GIMP	Image processing and retouch
VLC Media Player	Besides the standard ones, also supports DivX, XviD, MKV and OGG etc.
Sumatra PDF	Has zoom, rotate functions too.
Eraser	Erase files on a host pc without any trace.
AbiWord	A quick editor for Word and HTML file. Vista not supported.
ClamWin	Free virus scan software. Does not have real time monitor function.
Jooleem	A simple and lovely puzzle game.

If the above information still do not suffice the reader, Pendriveapps.com nice gadgets for you to play.

How to get rid of extra space in blogger when using table

Tips for posting to Blogger. This took me some time to find. The trouble is that when using table in Blogger, I got a lot of spaces (carriage returns) before it.
In fact, the culprit is the carriage returns in my HTML code. Their presences make editing easier, but cause Blogger to display all of them before the table.
A simple solution is to edit it with a different editor first. Before pasting them into Blogger, delete all the carriage returns.
The following is a simple code of before and after posting.

-------------before-------------
HTML Code

<table border="1">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>cell1</td>
<td>cell2</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Result

cell1

cell2

-------------after-------------

HTML Code

<table border="1"<tbody><tr><td>cell1</td><td>cell2</td></tr></tbody></table>

Result

cell1

cell2

In fact,I have to delete all the carriage returns to make this post as it is.<div> tag and its style attributes helps a lot to write this post too. "&lt;" and "&gt"; are also needed to display the "<" and ">", similarly, <verbose> for "&". For other special character entities, please refer to W3C's references. Wikipedia gives a great summary of List of XML and HTML character entity references.
To my delight, I found out that this solution also applies to any other mysterious spaces, not only just tables. For example, if you have an carriage return after a $lt;div$gt; section, you will get huge gap between the div section and the following paragraph. The solution: go to "Edit Html" mode and delete carriage return.

Here are some similar tips in Japanese.

Protection of Files on a Personal Computer

First of all, on a Microsoft Windows PC, one can use the encryption function for folders or files. But it only prevents uses of other account to access the protected ones.

AttachCase (download)is a free software that compresses and encrypts files of folders into one file. To access the protected files or folders, one has to decrypt it with the same software. This means if one encrypted a folder of 100 files, one has to decrypt the hole thing, in order to access only one of the files.

TrueCrypt is a open source disk it "Provides two levels of plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password: 1) Hidden volume (steganography – more information may be found here). 2) No TrueCrypt volume can be identified (volumes cannot be distinguished from random data)." For portable usage, one can use it in "traveler's mode".

Kinko(金庫) is a free software that creates protected folder that has integrated decryption function. "プログラムとデータが一体化しているので、どんな環境でもパスワードがあればファイルの出し入れが自由です。"

Cryptainer LE （Altech) is a software that creates virtual disk protected by password. The free version can process up to 25MB data though.

AxCrypt is Altech's another fre software. It needs very little operations for the most wanted functions of encryption, copression and their reverse operations.