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SwitchHosts – Firefox Add-On To Manage Host File

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 03:45 AM PST

Firefox is one of the best browsers because of its extra functionalities like add-ons and extensions. That’s why I always prefer to use it over other browsers. SwitchHosts is one such useful addon on firefox which is used for editing your system host file. With the help of switch host, you do not need to search where the host file is located on your system. All you need to do is install SwitchHosts add-on on Firefox, and it allows you to manage and switch between multiple host files easily.

Why should you install SwitchHosts to Mozilla Firefox?

By installing SwitchHost, you don’t have to edit the host file manually, which is present in /etc/hosts (in ubuntu system) and for Windows C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

Example : You don’t have to add one extra line, ‘ 216.239.32.21 mydomain.com’ to the ‘hosts’ file to switch the host from ’127.0.0.1′ (localhost).

How to use SwitchHost ?

Go to the ‘Tools’ menu of your Firefox browser, and click on the add-ons option, and select ‘Get add-ons’.
Search for ‘SwitchHosts’ and install it to Firefox, and restart it.
Now, go to the SwitchHosts Menu which can be found in the ‘Tools’ Menu and click on ‘Before you start(click)’ option.

A message box will appear , which asks you to completely install SwitchHosts, click OK.

Another message box now appears, which tells you that your Host file has been backed up in a folder.

Now again go to the SwitchHost menu under the ‘Tools’ menu, and select the Host Management option. A menu to manage hosts will appear as shown below.

Click on ‘Add’ to add new host to your existing domain. The menu shown below will follow.

Now add the name of your domain along with the IP address to which you want to switch your domain to. Click on Add Record and then OK to add the IP to your particular domain.

Now, in the Right-Bottom corner of your browser, you’ll notice the SwitchHost menu, from which you can select the IP address to which you want your domain to be switched. On selecting ‘edite-host’ or the name you have provided, the host gets switched to the IP you have provided.

Thus, you don’t have to manually change the host file, by using SwitchHosts.

Hope you will love to use this wonderful add-on. Do let me know if you have any more similar types of add-ons in your browser.

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[Photoshop trick] How To Discard Certain Part of an Image

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 09:30 PM PST

As you can see the below image, I am going to make the left image look like the image in the right. It looks like a difficult one but not only the Graphic Designer Anyone who knows Photoshop a bit will be able to edit the image as shown below, in just 2-steps.

In below image I am going to discard certain part from the image without affecting its beauty. It's a simple tutorial you can do it easily.

First take an image in Photoshop and copy the layer for backup.

Select the part which you want to drain out from the image. You can use quick selection tool or Lasso tool to make selection, here I used Lasso tool.