Aparently there are browser files that when palced within App_Browsers folder in the root of your project will affect what and how gets rendered.

There is wealth of info out there on the subject. These are the articles that helped me to sort this out:

• Safari browser and asp:menu
• Latest Browser Configuration Files
• Use ASP.NET 4 Browser Definitions with ASP.NET 3.5

I googled around and found that for as long as my Ethernet cable is connected to the NIC it would be preferred because it is higher speed connection. But in one of forums someone mentioned this term “Metric” that actually acts as a value that defines preference between all available connections. Also I found out that this metric can be arbitrarily assigned to a specific network interface. The lower the metric the greater is the preference.

The way one assigns it in windows xp is described here:
Configuring Multiple Adapters on the Same Physical Network

Using metric I made my wifi a preferred method of connecting to the net and whenever it could not find something on the net it tried looking it up using my NIC. Obviously resources that were only available on the internal network could not be available on the net and so lookups for internal resources would always fail on WiFi and would be routed via NIC instead. That’s all I really wanted.

Happy networking!

• Ctrl + Alt + (+) – Assign short cut to any button in the interface. Allows you to very easily build a macro and assign it a shortcut.
• Shift + Alt + End – Select current table cell.
• Shift + Alt + Home – Select all table cells starting from the current cell all the way up to the first one.
• Shift + Alt + UP/DOWN – Move current table row up or down respectively.
• Ctrl + Shift + Home/End – Select all table rows from the current row up to the first or last table row respectively.
• Ctrl + Space – Remove formatting. You must know how annoying it is to paste content copied from a website and it comes with its own styling and formatting. This shortcut will remove any web content formatting including links
• Ctrl + Alt + V – Paste special. Allows you to remove formatting too. It is very powerful but is a bit less efficient as it requires several mouse clicks to choose what formatting is required.

There is a way of pasting content copied from any with formatting removed. See this helpful article
and this one is even better.

Eventually I went into Tools > Firebug > Customize Shortcuts, then changed Toggle Inspecting value to something else, closed the window, then repeated procedure but on the last step I reset Toggle Inspecting back to original value (there is a button for it). And gues what!!! It started working!

P.S. as a result of this research I found a great shortcut management extension Keyconfig

IE9 however behaved well, and displayed image without any hickups.

The solution was rather easy, load JPG in photoshop and just resave it. I guess any other image converter tool would do the trick too.

A few more words re this issue could be read form this page.

• Right-click My Computer, select properties
• Click Environment Variables button on Advanced tab
• add a variable the usual way

One drawback of this approach is that your changes will only become available after machine restart. Not good enough for me! I searched the net and found this small tool called SETX that is part of Windows Resource Kit 2000

Setting an environment variable is now really simple. Just type and run this command in command prompt:
setx.exe VARNAME VALUE

That’s it you have set an environment variable and what’s important, no restart required.

P.S. to quickly test that it worked in new command prompt run this command set %VARNAME% and if you can see your variable in the output, it worked.

Update: this is another interesting forum entry on using setx to update PATH environment variable

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width: auto;
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By default all movies are played in window mode which allowes them to perform the best but such oddities as flash always on top will be happening.

Fixing my issue was rather easy. I just needed to add a wmode=opaque to the flash object. Job done.

So! I had to find a way to go around this low signal problem. I knew of a few available options and this would would involve purchase of either a WiFi Range Extender or a Pass-through Powerline Adapter. The latter looked specifically promising and that is what I will resort to when I have more currencies in future I knew I had to find something very cheap or even better free. So I googled for “wifi signal boost” and it found me this interesting link about DIY WiFi extender. The ideas was really simple, all that these guys did was to created a little parabola out of tin foil and mounted in on router’s areal.

I created my version of the parabola, which while was making a difference and giving a very slight performance boost it was definitely not enough. I tried to fiddle with antenna angle and router positioning but to no prevail. As a last resort I just took my tin foil parabola, straightened it back into a flat sheet and placed it under the router and guess what! I got nearly 10% 20% signal boost. How impressive is that??!!

Hope this helps somebody.