Nope. It’s not Windows messing with you as always (it sucks how all those errors make you look like an idiot). But in terms of potshots taken, I bet you’ve insulted your computer a lot more than what a normal person can take in a lifetime. So wouldn’t it be time for your computer to [...]

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We’ve featured this nice DVD ripping utility called Handbrake. It’s probably one of the most versatile DVD rippers that you can get for free out there not because it has the most features but it’s because you can use it on three different platforms -Linux, Windows, and Mac. Version 0.9 now features the following. Re-envisioned [...]

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Ever wish you had a Magic 8 Ball every time you had to make a Yes-or-No decision? For some reason that Mattel toy never lost its novelty and we can still see a fair amount of references in pop culture. Here’s one that can be used on your PC. It sits comfortable on your desktop [...]

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Being an advocate of making services free to people, Google introduced the Google Pack a while ago. This Pack contains Google’s recommended software that should pretty serve you in most of your daily computing needs. One thing I like about the Google Pack is that you can customize the things you want included there. For [...]

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Ever wanted to extract the audio from video sharing sites? This trick works only with sites using the FLV format. And here are two ways. UnPlug + FLV Extract. You can actually use any of the available FLV downloaders. I used to use VideoDownloader but I’ve found that UnPlug works better for me. After downloading [...]

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How-to Geek apparently doesn’t find a need for the Caps Lock key so why not disable the darned thing. Come to think of it, I haven’t really used it for a very long time. I prefer to use bold or italicized characters for emphasis and I always tend to just hold down the Shift key [...]

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Hmm… a precursor to SP1 perhaps? Oh well, I think these have been long overdue, especially for those experiencing a lot of problems after shifting to Vista. Billy’s boys have released, not one, but two update packs for their “best” OS so far. These two update packs aim to improve compatibility and reliability and performance.

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Here’s one more thing that can be added to the mix of candidates to replace Windows Vista’s really dumb Defragmenter. A little over a month ago, I posted about Vista Defrag’s dumb-down interface which prompted a few responses on using third-party software to do the job for us. From the comments, a few suggestions came [...]

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All hail, The Geek. Let’s face it. One of the banes of a blogger is comment spam and even with the different spam guards that you can apply to WordPress (our blogging platform of choice), you just can’t beat them all. Here at LifeSpy, we have set comment moderation on to effectively weed out spam [...]

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My Firefox browser notified me again that it needs to restart to install version 2.0.0.6. I was really expecting that the next time I’ll be installing a new version of Firefox will be with Firefox 3 Beta but it seems that Mozilla is patching a few security loopholes with this 2.0.0.6. Yup, and there’s all [...]

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I’ve been catching up on unread items on my feed reader and I probably have skipped this item from ComputerWorld (undoubtedly one of my favorite reads for tech stuff). I am now a Vista user and I’m still contemplating hard on whether I’d upgrade to XP or just . I’m even using Home Basic and [...]

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I remember learning BASIC back when I was a kid. Sure, it’s dated (so are my programming skills) but learning programming helped me a lot in my work. I know that some grade schools and high schools around the world are now teaching Java or even Visual Basic .NET. While those can benefit kids who [...]

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Ever since that tragic day, the US government has gone through lengths to ensure the safety of its people. Probably one of the most apparent signs of this is the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security. It presents a color scheme of five threat levels depending on the level of risk. Now if you [...]

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If you’re a hardcore Google services, you still might be wanting a few things tweaked here and there. But hey, we get to use them for free so there’s really no point in whining and complaining. It’s a good thing we have our friendly neighborhood add-on makers and scripters to make our Googling just a [...]

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Hah! I’m still fuming with Vista’s Defrag and my lost-and-found gigabyte of hard drive space and I’m stuck with it. I would’ve wanted to “upgrade” back to XP but that means I have to shell out money for another OS. It really challenges you ethically. Or maybe it’s time to finally try out Linux at [...]

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