04 Apr
Posted by Alex as Computers, Firefox Tips, Mac Tips, Windows Tips
Ever had a problem with forums, boards, and even blog entry interfaces that have too small a text input area to type on? I have a habit of posting long-ish comments, so to me, it does. How about another add-on that lets you do just that. Here you go - Resizable Textarea.
Yet another simple [...]
04 Apr
Posted by Alex as Computers, Mac Tips, Windows Tips, Work and Career, Writing
A couple of days ago, I wrote an article on How to Apply for a Job. I placed the resume as one of the important things one should prepare for. Your resume increases your chances of landing an assessment or interview - a step in landing your dream job.
Personally, I’m more keen on making [...]
02 Apr
Posted by Alex as Computers, Firefox Tips, Mac Tips, The Web, Windows Tips
If you’re one who works on different workstations or computers (shifting from one desktop to a laptop and back), then one issue you might have is keeping your bookmarks all in synch on all of your machines.
Firefox and IE do have an option to export your bookmarks but who wants to do the tedious [...]
29 Mar
Posted by Alex as Computers, Firefox Tips, Mac Tips, The Web, Windows Tips
It’s really the faddish thing to do nowadays but Flash sucks in terms of accessibility. Flash animations (used in banners and ads) can take too long to load. And they can be quite annoying when all you need is a piece of information (like a line of text perhaps). If you’re not really into [...]
Here’s a Mac tip courtesy of TechPwn. If you are wondering why hidden applications don’t become translucent on the Mac OS X dock, here’s a simple workaround for you.
…there is a simple terminal command that will make the dock icons of hidden applications translucent on the dock. This tip was emailed to me so [...]
21 Mar
Posted by Alex as Computers, Firefox Tips, Mac Tips, The Web, Windows Tips
Hey, hey, hey. Our favorite browser just released an update with Firefox 2.0.0.3 it fixes a few security issues and website compatibilities.
The security update fixes the MFSA 2007-11 FTP PASV port-scanning vulnerability. Here are some details about this:
mark@bindshell.net reported that a malicious web page hosted on a specially-coded FTP server could use this [...]
20 Mar
Posted by Alex as Computers, Firefox Tips, Mac Tips, The Web, Windows Tips
One of the ways Firefox offers a faster browsing experience is that it has a pre-load feature that will download pages behind the links that you might click. I don’t know how Firefox does this but it does.
So if you’re just coursing through a page, you might just be wasting bandwidth and hard [...]
16 Mar
Posted by Alex as Business, Computers, Mac Tips, News, The Web, Windows Tips, Work and Career
Here’s a list of web applications for management and collaboration. Take control and share data through these websites:
Basecamp
CentralDesktop
Planzo
Backpack
Zimbra
ProjectPlace
Doodle
ZohoPlanner
vyew
norada
stikipad
30boxes
near-time
shortText
Project360
Thinkature
ThinkFree
SlimTimer
15 Mar
Posted by Alex as Business, Computers, Mac Tips, The Web, Windows Tips, Work and Career
Looking for that Visio killer? Here’s Gliffy for you.
Gliffy is a web-based online application that lets you draw great looking diagrams, flowcharts and floorplans on your web browser. You can even conceptualize web page wireframes with this app. That means no need to invest and install expensive software like Visio if all your work. [...]
15 Mar
Posted by Alex as Computers, Mac Tips, The Web, Windows Tips, Work and Career
You may not always be using your PC or have a laptop handy. Most workaholics just can’t stop thinking about work even on a day-off or a vacation. Public terminals just come in handy. But since it’s a public terminal, you can expect to have the same functionality and the same array of suites [...]
Mac released its update to OS X to patch 45 bugs in the OS and other apps that come with it. This includes Adobe’s Flash player, MySQL Server and OpenSSH. Apple indicated that 2/3 of the flaws could lead to “arbitrary code execution.”
Together with the patches, Apple also released Version 10.4.9 of OS [...]
Yesterday, I featured the Color Jack: Sphere tool. It’s a really handy tool for web designers as a few of my friends who saw it (and used it) yesterday said. Now as a web designer, choosing colors is just part of it. Remember that people surf because of content. And a great part of [...]
11 Mar
Posted by Alex as Computers, Crafts and Hobbies, Mac Tips
Not all of us may be gifted with that artistic sense. Choosing colors is an art but at least for us art commoners, we can approach it as a science. Knowing what colors go well together goes a long way - choosing paint for your house, picking wallpaper and accents, even with designing your [...]
Shortcuts make life much easier. Being a keyboard ninja, I’m a bid fan of keyboard shortcuts. Here’s a very quick and easy tip to create your own keyboard shortcuts in Mac OS X.
Access System Preferences -> Keyboard and Mouse -> “Keyboard Shortcuts” tab
Click the “+” sign at the bottom.
From the drop-down list, select Finder
Type [...]
08 Mar
Posted by Alex as Computers, Firefox Tips, Mac Tips, The Web, Windows Tips
For quite some time, I’ve been using this handy-dandy toolbar (as extension) in Firefox - StumbleUpon. This is just so fun, you just might get addicted and forget to do what you have to do. :p
Here’s a cursory list of features according to their site (yes, focus on the “and more” part):
Channel surf the [...]