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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Perhaps one thing that I don’t like about Firefox is the status bar. It just plainly shows you the page’s loading progress. It’s a good thing it has become one of the common places for your installed extensions to hang out. But for a power user like me, just showing the progress bar and [...]

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I’ve just been retraining myself with some keyboard ninjitsu for Windows Vista as of late and here are a couple of tips for keyboard ninjas. These commands allow you to cycle through the Taskbar items and the System Tray items using the Windows logo key.
To cycle through your Taskbar programs

Press Windows + T
Use your [...]

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I’ve been a hands down Firefox fan and a loyal Google user. I’ve had this installed a while back and I just keep forgetting to post about it - CustomizeGoogle. It’s a must-have for any hardcore user of Google Search and other Google services. Well, since I am, I hardly could think about life [...]

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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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I love keeping my hard drives in optimum performance that’s why I always take time to defragment them. I’m running my new laptop on Home Basic (I don’t need the frills of Windows bloatware like Aero) and I’ve decided to do a bit of maintenance and organize my files and give it a good [...]

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Google has offered translation services to translate websites or a chunk of text with Google Translate before. As you may have noticed with the text translation, it doesn’t quite translate words and phrases quite well. But now, they remedied that with a dictionary.
Right now, the dictionary service translates to and from English with French, [...]

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I have to admit that one of the things that kept me sane as a corporate monkey was Dilbert and the gang. I always wanted to go Dogbert in the office and go medieval on the Pointy-Haired Boss. Anyway, while you can probably find so many other sources for your doses of Dilbert online, [...]

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Yesterday I posted a quick tip on using MeeTimer, an add-on that counts time online spent on productivity (or otherwise). Now for just a bit more on productivity control, here’s an extension that you might consider installing together with MeeTime.
LeechBlock is a Firefox extension that lets you block time leeching websites like you-know-what. [...]

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For people who are into self-observation of personal statistics to boost productivity, this Firefox extension may just be a killer tool for you. MeeTimer is a potential procrastination eliminator that works by recording not only your time online, but more importantly, where you spend it.
MeeTime can group the sites you visit according to categories [...]

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If you’re a podcast download junkie, then you probably are downloading a lot of data. When you’re using iTunes, some companies (like Time Warner) put a cap on your download speed. I don’t know how “excessive” is “excessive” downloading but I guess when you’re a download fiend, that’s a lot. But this cap can [...]

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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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Let’s all thank Avenue Q for re-emphasizing that the Internet is for porn. What can we do? Sex sells. However, porn is just so easy to access over the Net that it really poses a grave threat to our kids. While there are a lot of parental control software out there, not one has [...]

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This one confused me at first. I mean, who would want to see your history as thumbnails on a filmstrip? I think that’s just an overkill for a tab tweak. At least, that was my first impression of ThumbStrips.
But hey, some people might just find it useful. If you’re some forgetful surfer who loses [...]

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It’s a marketing war, I tell you. So probably I’m part of the reason why Microsoft and Windows Vista gained some points in the OS market share with my purchase of a laptop with a bundled Vista Home Basic (sucks!). In any case, my purchase made a stat point in Vista’s gain of 3/4 [...]

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