For those of you who have been using Firefox for some time now, you might have seen this behavior from Firefox. This usually happens when you open a link to an image file. When the image is too large to fit the Firefox browser display, it automatically shrinks the image to fit your window. [...]

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A lot of friends have been asking me, how was I able to playback all sorts of video files from Real, to Quick Media, to DivX, to Windows AVI. I tell them it’s a matter of having all the necessary codecs (coder-decoder) in your system. These are small internal tools that allow your media [...]

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With Vista rolled out for home use across the globe, Microsoft also rolls out it series of applications to support it. One of the latest ones hot off the grill is Windows Live Messenger 8.01. Here are what it has in store:

Improved compatibility with Vista
Vista interface with new emoticons and contacts display
SMS capability
“Roaming identity” [...]

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About two weeks ago, I wrote about companies investing on document management. It’s really disturbing how an employee could be so isolated in a cubicle. Lack of collaboration from within can really hurt a company.
How much investment must a company make to start out with collaborative software? Not much. using freeware is definitely a [...]

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Everything’s going digital and it’s one of the most efficient ways of storing data. Ever had one of those old VHS or analog camcorder tapes eaten out by mold? Nasty. Here’s something that you can do over the weekend in an effort to save your old wedding video before mold gets it. How to [...]

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Windows users have an assortment of freeware and FOSS alternatives to choose from. Unfortunately for Mac users, there’s quite a shortage to that. Anyway, here are a few alternative choices to pricey software for the Mac:

Pixel Image Editor ($39) for Photoshop ($649)
Lineform ($79.95) for Adobe Illustrator ($499)
Billings 2 ($59) for Quickbooks ($250)
NVU (FREE!) + [...]

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I keep an assortment of passwords for my different accounts. And since it’s not wise to write them down for some snoopy person to see, I just try to memorize all of them. Unfortunately for me, keeping too many passwords makes you forget which password was for a certain account.
It just so happened that [...]

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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a real neat document format created by Adobe. Unfortunately, their default (free) reader, Adobe Reader is quite a resource hog. It’s been a killer to accidentally click on a PDF link only to have Firefox “hang up” for about 20 or so seconds since Adobe Reader is opening [...]

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It’s hasn’t been a month since Microsoft warned Office users of vulnerabilities for some of the suite applications like MS Excel. Now there’s a warning for a Word vulnerability.
The attack comes from an e-mail Word attachment that drops a Trojan leaving the infected computer vulnerable to attacks. It’s been flagged as a high-level threat [...]

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I love LeBron James. The massive small forward with a point guard mentality. I just hope the Cavs make the playoffs this time and really show why he can be the next Mike. I envy him too. Set for life and not even 25. Well, he was set for life even before he played [...]

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Yes! More tweaks for Firefox 2. Now, Firefox 2 now has a spell check feature that checks for spelling errors in text entry fields. However, by default, it only checks multi-line fields which leaves you to still be open to spelling errors for single-line fields. But we can make Firefox check those automatically with [...]

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Here’s a real cool freeware that I’ve used to make short demonstrations and tutorials: Wink*. Macromedia (Adobe) launched Captivate a while back which is a really powerful tool for making tutorials or even quizzes but Wink is freeware with pretty functional for the everyday user!
Here’s some of Wink’s cool features:

Small installation - The installer [...]

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I’m a Firefox user since it came out and honestly, Internet Explorer has just served as a backup browser for those sites that don’t function with Friefox. Anyway, IE 7 is a real looker compared to IE 6, especially when it finally came out with its tabbed browsing feature.
Here are keyboard shortcuts for tabs [...]

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So I’ve already pointed out features of Firefox 2 like tabbed browsing and detailed configuration. As you may have noticed Firefox 2 now features a Close button (that little X) for individual tabs. This is unlike in Firefox 1.X where a solo Close button is located at the right end of the tabs.
Here’s a [...]

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I’ve stumbled upon the news about the latest outbreak of the Storm Worm (which is actually a Trojan-bearing e-mail) about 4 days ago. But I didn’t think it was that serious since Symantec didn’t have a bulletin yet during that time. PC World was one of the first to report it then. But now [...]

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