One key that defies its usual encoding behavior in Firefox is the Tab key. By default, the Tab key is a navigational key that shifts the next form field or button. It’s an issue however when you’re trying to create indentations in multi-line text areas.
Tabinta is a Firefox extension that gives you back the [...]

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Google first broke the mold of measly 2-10 MBs of mailbox space a few years ago by offering 2 GBs (and counting) of space. Now, about a couple or so years of having Gmail as the king of mailbox spaces, Yahoo shook things up by offering unlimited mailbox space to subscribers. Windows Live [...]

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Let’s face it, a lot of people in the world have not even used a computer. However, for those places where computers are king, this issue may just be relevant Amit of Digital Inspiration points out that handwritten documents are an endangered species.

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Well what do you know? Another Firefox Quick Tip for the week.
I’m a WordPress user and I’m sticking to it as my favorite blogging engine. However, one thing that’s quite annoying in dealing with WP is having to use an FTP client to upload themes and plug-ins and that is quite a tedious process. [...]

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I miss writing about things concerning Firefox. I just can’t wait for 3’s beta version to be released. In any case, I guess we’ll just have to content ourselves with extensions. Unfortunately, new ones seem to come sporadically.
Pennypinchers used to clip a lot of coupons from newspapers and magazines to get to those offers. [...]

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I usually just rip the movie off the DVD first and then keep the DVD sealed and in pristine scratch and smudge free condition. Personal use only, and I’m not sharing it via P2P. At least I can watch my movies in my laptop without having to pop in the DVD all the time.
Recently, [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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You read it. Yes, a banana. This is surely something that would rock the very fiber of my CD cleaning belief that all you need is a clean lint-free cloth and wipe the darned thing from the center outward in a straight line rotating the disc as you go along. But no, this features a [...]

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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 [...]

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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 comments [...]

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Web 2.0 created the culture of sharing turning every damn netizen to a generous machine. While some people share gold, most share crap. But hey, we can’t totally avoid that since we’ve been filling the Web with crap, ever since, well, ever. Hehehe.
Firefox has been a lot of help for share whores especially since [...]

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Here’s a news bit from Ed Bott over at ZDNet. There some good news and bad news for Vista users running with an Nvidia card. Good news, there’s a new set of drivers for you released around last month. Bad news, there’s still a chockfull of issues that you have to deal with in [...]

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