I’ve been doing some new year reorganizing and saw my old scanner gathering dust on one side of our storeroom. I rarely get to use my scanner nowadays since my prime use of the thing was mostly for scanning line art to be digitally colored during my digital artist wannabe days. Anyway, seeing it made [...]

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Let’s face it, in terms of mobile computing, the laptop is still the closest approximation of the things that you can do with a regular desktop computer (sometimes it works even better). The whole point in the laptop is mobility. So what’s the point in getting one that you don’t bring with you. If you [...]

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This is nothing new, especially for PC gamers out there. I’ve been revisiting some of my old games while waiting for the holiday crunch (and the bouts of laziness) to finally pass. While a lot of PC games out there are really built for PCs (strategies and simulations) where you get to use the [...]

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As a blogger, I have to deal with hyperlinks and link texts everytime. I even seldom use WordPress’ visual editor. The code editor just gives me a lot more control. While this functionality doesn’t have anything to do with the visual editor, it is such a pain to have to rewrite link texts and [...]

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A really quickie quick tip here. Probably it’s me just playing catch-up to all those great Firefox extensions that we’ve failed to feature just before Mozilla unleashes version 3 of our favorite browser.
Basic functionality with this one and quite sadly a unitasker. But what a useful unitasker this is. Ever had to restart Firefox? [...]

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Year-end list and year-end awards. I stumbled upon CyberNet News’ Tiny Program award. It was the first time I’ve read about Pitaschio but heck, after checking it out, I’d have to say that I’d give it the same props too. Tons of features to help you manage Windows and yet it just takes up [...]

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The Geek (over at How-to Geek) wrote about how you can make the Task Manager run in the system tray at startup. It’s a great tutorial only it requires too many steps to accomplish. It gives you a great step-by-step tutorial on how you can do it manually in Windows, though. Here’s our version [...]

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All I can say is Wow. How nifty can this be. An instantaneous translation service just like having a personal dictionary available with you. And they made it possible by letting you chat with a bot. What’s even more interesting is that this service within GoogleTalk has a lot more language pairs than Google [...]

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Ah, more on PDF management. It’s really tough when PDF is still proprietary and the only way to have absolute and fanciful control over PDFs is to purchase Acrobat Professional. But for cheapskates like the rest of us, paying top dollar isn’t just an option. Thank goodness for all the free stuff that can [...]

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More year-end lists as we prepare to flick another digit in our calendars. And here’s one by PC World on the 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007. As I’ve said with my take on Google Zeitgeist list, I prefer stat lists over opinionated ones. Hey, but who am I to prevent people? I might just [...]

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Months ago, we posted a neat way of getting to log-in to two different Gmail accounts at once using a IE Tab workaround. The principle behind this is to utilize the two browsers to use different cookie information that allows you to have two separate sessions with a site.
Now here’s a new update on [...]

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One thing that used to piss me off when formating documents is Word’s inability to easily change cases. It does piss me off when I have to change text that are written by some Caps Lock junkie into a more workable document. Good thing Word 2007 kind of wizened up in terms of this [...]

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One thing that bugs me when searching for those supposedly free information is when sites ask you to register. Don’t get me wrong, I do register for sites that I frequent but it is a tedious process when all you need is to view one piece of information or download one pesky device driver. While [...]

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Year-end lists are always a treat. Though I do favor statistical lists over subjective ones since I do tend to disagree with some takes (but don’t we all?). Google Zeitgeist has featured the top searches for the year. View the fastest rising search terms from all-over the world after the cut.

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Let’s all sing that Avenue Q song, “The Internet is for P*rn.” (Self-censorship sucks. But I have to. Lest we incur Google’s wrath once again.)
Now, I’m sure that for some of you out there, you just can’t resist surfing for the “good stuff.” But if you’re using the family computer, then you must [...]

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