tipsNtricks.md

Firefox

1. AdBlock - Blocks annoying video ads on YouTube, Facebook ads, banners and much more.
2. FoxyProxy - Plugin to quickly change the proxy.
3. TabGroups - Plugin to view all opened tabs like in Safari.
4. Disable Ctrl + Q - disable the shortcut to close all the tabs.
5. Ctrl + Shift + T - restore last tab closed.
6. Ctrl + Shift + E - group tabs view
7. VideoDownloadHelper - Download video files, from any website
8. DownThemAll - Download manager for firefox
9. Firebug - Development tools for firefox, edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page
10. JsonView - Parses json string into objects and arrays.
11. FireQuery - Firebug plugin for jQuery development

Chrome

1. Folder upload option - Upload complete forlders by dragging and droping into chrome, not available in firefox
2. Prophet - extension to find email ids of people from LinkedIn
3. Postman - Make different types of request on URL which are not possible through browser like delete, put, post etc. Must have when you are building an API
4. Proxy switcher - extension to quickly change the proxy.
5. Save to Pocket - Save articles directly to Pocket read later service from chrome.
6. Be Limitless - Beautiful dashboard to easily identify where your time is spent and gives productivity.
7. Momentum - Another beautiful dashboard featuring todo, weather, and inspiration
8. Hola Free VPN - Access blocked website, youtube videos.

Common to Both Browsers

1. Incognito mode - Private browsing Ctrl + Shift + N(Chrome), Ctrl + Shift + P(Firefox)
2. Push Bullet (Chrome) (Firefox) - Sync media, messages across multiple devices.

Websites

1. Dayt.se, Couchtuner, Shush, KissAnime - Get all the tv series and movies in HD.

2. StackOverflow, StackExchange - Best QA sites

3. GeeksforGeeks - Learn algorithms and data structures

4. InterviewBit - For programming interview preparation. Complete this before starting of the final year for excellent placements

5. Bitport.io, Seedr.cc - 2GB of torrent direct download

6. Appxv - get free paid apps for Android

7. blackboxrepack.com - Download games in one click

8. https://it-ebooks.info/- Download free ebooks.

9. Filehippo.com - Get all software for free.

10. Slack - Group chat for projects

11. Quora, Reddit - sites to read interesting content and get your queries answered.

12. Search for “index of serial” on Google - you would get one click download option in the results.

13. Ideone - online code editor.

14. Oduso - install multiple application in one go, using scripts made by this site.

15. Tlk.io - site to create a chat room and chat anonymously or sign-in.

16. IRC - chat site for professionals.

17. Pushbullet - cross platform notification sharing

18. Github student’s account, gist, bitbucket

19. Weiyun, Dropbox, MegaShare, GooglePhotos - 1 TB cloud storage

20. Urbandictionary - get the meaning of each and every slang/shortform used today.

21. Xdadevelopers.com - everything related to android.

22. Heroku, AWS, hostinger - hosting serivies for your projects

23. Koding.com

24. Stumbleupon - explore web new pages based on likes and dislikes and save pages.

25. Google forms - create simple and user friendly forms for submission of entries.

26. Feedly - RSS feed aggregator

27. Ssyoutube - download youtube videos.

28. Pininterest

29. Tripoto - Trip experience sharing site (TripLived android app)

30. Music.cliggo.com - Provides music from youtube (app also)

31. Requestmaker.com - like postman but online.

32. www.codinghorror.com - Blog of stackoverflow co founder Jeff

33. https://bento.io/ - Shows you the links and paths of various tools and languages.

34. Watch video in youtube without login: nsfwyoutube.com/link

35. SecurityKiss.com

36. http://www.linuxcommand.org -This site gets you familiar with linux terminal commands.(Beginners should definitely visit it.)

**Single Page Web Application **

1. HasteBin (Open Source Paste Bin )

2. gluPaste (glug nith paste bin )

3. VolaFile (Live File Sharing and chat)

4. http://www.koding.com/

5. Talky (Google Hangout without registration)

6. Flask.io (To do list without registration)

7. Pen.io (Write Blog without registration)

8. Rainy mood - soundrown.com like sites Listen any youtube video in rainymood: 1.just open the video on youtube 2.Replace the www.youtube.com/... link as www.rainymood.com/... 3.e.g.: Your youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTHz9ephYTw Change it to : https://www.rainymood.com/watch?v=NTHz9ephYTw and here you go!! 4.For more information visit : (http://rainymood.com/howto.html)

9. Codeshare - Share live code editor without registration

Linux Software -

1. Guake - Drop down terminal

2. Pidgin - Chat client

3. Proxychains - work behind proxy easily

4. Polipo

5. Terminator - advanced linux terminal

6. Genymotion - Fastest Android emulator.

7. Xdm - Xtreme Download Manager like IDM but free.

8. Conky, Docky - Lightweight system monitor and dock

9. Gimp - photo editing software in linux.

10. Tor Browser - Anonymous web browsing, bypass proxy.

11. Sublime, Atom, VS Code editor

12. Wine - open windows files and softwares in linux

13. PlayOnLinux: windows files in linux

14. Ssh - get inside another person’s computer

15. SSH shuttle - no proxy SSH tunneling

16. Creating an ad-hoc

17. Privoxy - Routing everything via tor

18. VPN - network manager, open VPN

19. Synaptic package manager

20. Synapse Launcher - keystroke launcher, open applications, files using just keyboard

21. Zsh - an alternative to bash, but much better

22. Virtual Box - run another OS within a OS

23. MegaSync - Mega client to sync files with MEGA cloud storage

24. Byobu / tmux - Terminal multiplexers

25. Gparted - Partition editor for graphically managing your disk partition

26. Unetbootin, YUMI - Live USB creator

27. Kde-connection manager/creating hotspot(not ad hoc)

28. Samba - sharing files/folder in linux

29. Variety - automatically change wallpapers for linux. The source of wallpapers can be customized.

30. Crontab: Scheduling events

31. Apptik - A Tool to Backup/Restore Your Favourite PPAs and Apps in Ubuntu

32. TestDisk Data Recovery

33. Software For Recovery of data - Grsync, pybackup

34. **KODI **

35. ppa:noobslab - Best linux themes

36. Angry IP scanner - Scan IP subnets

37. gnome-tweak-tool - Tweak gnome

38. Ambiance - rainy mood alternative for desktop

39. Screen - used on a remote server to create multiple terminals

40. Easy Stroke Gesture recorder- control your desktop using mouse gestures

Windows Software -

1. Putty - ssh tunnelling in windows.

2. Rainmeter - cool themes for windows

3. Cygwin - Linux like environment for windows

4. Bitvise SSH server - Create free SSH server

5. Open VPN

6. Git bash - git command line interface for Windows

7. Ext2explorer

8. Virtual Box, VMware - run different OS in windows.

9. Proxyfire

10. Privoxy - Routing everything via tor

11. Saavn,Gaana , Elpis, Audials - Songs related apps

12. LastPass- Stores password

13. IDM - Download Manager, faster than browser downloader.

14. Universal USB installer - create bootable pendrives

15. Visual Code - Code editor

16. Creating an ad-hoc

17. Netscan - easily detect which systems on LAN are open.

18. Ease US partiion manager and recovery - recovers partition and changes the partition length.

19. Format Factory - convert any format to any format

20. Visual Studio Community Edition - Best C/C++ ide for MS Windows

IOS -

1. Get wifi working in iphones - Add gdr.local to the search domain of the network connected after adding the proxy.

2. Alienblue - reddit app

3. iMusic - Automatically saves youtube video once played.

4. Fing - Scan services on all the devices that are connected to the same network as your phone(iPhone).

**Android applications **

1. OpenVPN Connect - connect to VPN from your phone

2. CamScanner - Take photos of documents and save them as pdfs

3. Wunderlist, Any.do - Managing todo lists.

4. Merriam-webster - offline dictionary

5. Evernote - Write, manage and sync notes

6. Hooks - Notification alerts for various events like sports, youtube, tv shows, earthquakes, scores etc.

7. If - automation app. Defining events which trigger different events like when add a contact save it to google spreadsheet.

8. **Moneyview **

9. KingRoot - root your phone(at your own risk).

10. Google Keep - Write, manage and sync notes

11. Chromer - open links in floating windows

12. Define - word meanings from any app

13. Dropbox, Mega - Cloud storage services

14. JotterPad - for writing in markdown, with dropbox support

15. LastPass - Save passwords

16. Pocket - save articles to read later, even offline

17. Airdroid, WiFi File Transfer - sync between phone and laptop.

18. Rotation Control - force a certain rotation on android

19. Greenify - resource manager for Android.

20. ShareIt, Xander - File sharing service.

21. Shazam, Sound Cloud - detects music

22. MusicX - The best music player. Album arts, synced lyrics

23. Psiphon - Painless VPN client

24. Forkhub - Your git repos on your phone

25. Cleartune - Painlessly tune your guitar

Linux Commands -

1. Ps -el | grep <application name> - to get the process id of the process.

2. Kill -9 pid - to kill the process whose pid can be obtained from the previous command.

3. Killall <process_name> - to kill all the running process

4. Nohup <command> & - to run the command in background.

5. **Fg, bg - **

6. Top - to see which process is taking how much memory.

7. Ctrl + R - to search recursively

8. Ctrl + U - delete line

9. Use -E to add PPA

10. Alt + F2 - run command with suggestions.

11. Sudo !! - run last command with sudo.

12. **Set brightness **

13. Save a lot of battery - Go to Software and Updates -> Additional Drivers and install latest stable proprietary release for nVIDIA or ATI

14. Gnome-screenshot, shutter - Take screenshot easily and with a lot of customization

15. Ctrl+Prt Sc: Screenshot without confirmation

16. Alt+Prt Sc -> Click on any window -> Release Alt: Screenshot of only that window

17. Shift+Prt Sc -> Select an area ->Release Shift: Screenshot of only that selected area

18. Add alias for running softwares

19. Chmod, chown - own a directory

20. TTY

21. Nbtscan - network discovery in linux

22. Middle click - shortcut to paste the current selected text.

23. Cd -- to get back to previous directory.