All the while, I’ve been blogging about Firefox 2 and haven’t really written about Firefox 3. What’s nice about Mozilla is they alway keep their development open to the public. Such is the case with their developments with Firefox 3 dubbed as “Gran Paradiso.” As the title of this post states, they’ve made Firefox 3.0 [...]

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Microsoft has quietly released a patch to improve the IE 7′s phishing filter. Now the filter is a most welcome update from IE 6 to prevent ordinary web users from accidentally giving away their information by blocking phishing sites. The patch was made public through the IE blog last week. It supposedly addresses the high [...]

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Disgruntled employees are proven to be management headache. While most won’t probably bring a gun along with his lunch bag and start a shooting spree during the mid-day crunch, they’re still liable to hurt your company even in small doses. Retaliation may come in many forms from the petty stuff like the theft of every [...]

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Now this is a way to discover music the Web 2.0 way. Pandora is an online music service that’s developed by a group of musicians (who knows better about music than musicians themselves) launched earlier this year. Many are saying that it is the best way to find music over the Web and the Net [...]

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News flash! To those who think that broadcast quality TV can be done online right now, you might be mistaken. Internet companies have said that they’ve been doing much work just to keep the data flowing from video sites like YouTube and Joost. Google, who has acquired YouTube last year has said that the Net [...]

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Every computer owner should know what’s in their computer like the back of their own hand. But for most of us, we are a bit scared tinkering . But if you’ve ever encountered some of those snotty tech support people who would just make you feel so inadequate with talk like “Do you know what [...]

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Yup, you read that right! Windows XP has so many other utilities hidden to the average user. All you need is some other program to show you what they are. Check out Hidden Utilities XP. It’s a small utility that shows you 53 Windows tools and 43 Command Line utilities that have a wide array [...]

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Believe it or not, MP3s may just be the bane of any anal-retentive, obsessive-compulsive music afficionado there is. And here are the top peeves I get from my own cluttered collection: Different file name formats Incomplete/blank ID3 tags Inconsistent groupings in folders Here are not one, but two tools that I could recommend to you [...]

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Kudos to Michael and Apple Gazette for getting Apple Gazette Weekly in iTunes. Here’s a Mac OS X quick tip from Apple Gazette. How to take screenshots in Mac OS X: For fast and easy screenshots download SnapNDrag. For hardcore OS X keystrokes: command+shift+3 Full screenshot command+shift+4 Crosshair to allow selection of screenshot area command+shift+4, [...]

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Vista’s out. But you have two major problems. One, your PC’s specs can’t run Vista. And two, you don’t have the money to upgrade to Vista yet. But that shouldn’t stop you from enjoying the sight of Vista interface right? Right! Hence, the freeware gods have blessed XP users with the Vista Transformation Pack. You [...]

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There are some web pages that you tend to refresh every once in a while. While some services like sports play-by-play pages and some webmail inbox pages do, most of them don’t. That is if you don’t use Reload Every – an add-on for Firefox 2.0. What this does is to add an option to [...]

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For every person who knows and actually does computer maintenance, reformatting your hard drive and reinstalling Windows is probably one of the most tedious tasks. Advanced users would probably have a spare or external hard drive which contains an exact replica of the fresh operating system hard drive that can be “ghosted” every time the [...]

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E-mailing is a skill that doesn’t only entail knowing how to actually send e-mails or use BCCs. E-mailing is a communication skill, which means you got to know what to writer and how to write it. Here are a few tips on writing power e-mails: Check your address – You can’t expect to be credible [...]

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We all know that Vista is excruciatingly demanding on PC specs. And the problem is, it will probably work best when purchased in a bundle with a Vista-compatible PC. But what will it do to all the other non-Vista compatible PCs? Here are interesting clippings from Softchoice’s white paper on the possible effects of Vista [...]

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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. You [...]

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