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 comments [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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One thing I’ve been experiencing with Vista so far is it’s unfriendliness to a power user like me. I mean, I love to tweak my system (and Windows XP just let me do just that) and I’m really annoyed by the all the confirmation dialogs that pop up just about every time. It seems [...]

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I never really used RealPlayer save perhaps during the days when it was the only streaming player online. Yes, that would probably back when I was using a 33.6 kbps dial-up connection. I’ve never really used it again with all the other media and as more and more websites shifting their content out of [...]

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Here’s another PDF viewer that promises an alternative to the ever-bloated Adobe Reader. We’ve already featured a great alternative in Foxit Reader but this one you might find more interesting with its more advanced features like comments and annotations which were previously found not in Reader but in the paid and expensive Acrobat Professional. [...]

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Hot off the news and into your computer. Google just made available Google Gears (BETA). It’s “an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using JavaScript APIs.” These include:

Store and serve application resources locally
Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database
Run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness

Imagine web [...]

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Mozilla just released the latest incarnation of Firefox 2 with 2.0.0.4. The release notes emphasize on these important updates:

Security Update: The following security issues have been fixed.
Windows Vista Support: More enhancements and fixes for Windows Vista are included, with the following caveats.
New Languages: Afrikaans (af) and Belarusian (be) are now available. Beta releases for [...]

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I’ve been on a diet. And every dieter knows that to lose weight, you have to stay on top of your calories. You have to burn at least 3500 calories to shed off 1 pound of weight. So if you want to loose weight, you should know whether you’re taking in less or more [...]

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Blame Firefox for my love for tabbed browsing. Then Internet Explorer followed suite with tabbed browsing. It only left me with a wish to have tabbed browsing with all my apps, especially Windows Explorer.
And it’s a good thing we’ve got freeware developers to help us out. I just stumbled upon this neat freeware that [...]

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I’ve been working with WordPress offline for very practical purposes. It lets me try out themes without having to consume bandwidth on my web host. I just use it whenever I’m trying out my meager skills with PHP, MySQL, and WordPress. I haven’t really thought of letting others know how I do it until [...]

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