I’m getting pretty bored waiting for Firefox 3, let’s just revisit a few tip and tricks that you can do with Firefox as it is now. While I have been a staunch advocate of keyboard ninjitsu with all the shortcuts, I have to admit that there are instances that I do some mousings too. [...]

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Just like the AutoCorrect feature, one of the most underrated and underused features of Word is the Replace function. If you think that the Replace function is only good for changing text items, then you’re sadly mistaken. If you’ve made a mess of formating or styling your document, Replace can pretty much help you [...]

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Oh man. I just can’t wait for Firefox 3. But before we get into another whole shebang, let me just squeeze in some of my latest finds that might help you out with Firefox.
While you can expand your arsenal of search engines by installing more search plug-ins, why not just create your own search [...]

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Hehe. Now here’s one site that helps you justify the time you spend slacking off. Give that lame “My dog ate my homework” a Web 2.0 twist with File Destructor 2.0.
While you can always claim that Windows chewed your homework as an excuse for a night with the boys, your girl, or with your [...]

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Todd Wilkens wrote this interesting piece about his war against Blackberries and laptops in office meetings. Entitled “My personal war against Crackberry,” Wilkens points out how these devices can divide people’s attention to matters. He shares seven ways on how to curb this phenomenon in office meetings.
In this age of wireless Internet and mobile [...]

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Tired of nosy people looking over your shoulder to see what the heck you’re surfing. Well, if you only have Google or some other productive site on your browser, then no problem. Still, you might want to get a bit of privacy and the page title immediately gives you away.
Page Title Eraser is [...]

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Might take a while before it shows up for all users but looking at the upper-right hand portion of my GMail screen is one of those plugs in red bold letters. This time, it’s “New! Group chat“. Clicking on the link revealed that Google just packed the darned chat with more goodies.
The group chat [...]

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A great source of overview information and a great past time to edit. But how about getting to read articles while not connected to the Internet? My style is to print pages as PDF and it works for me. But what if you don’t have a PDF printer? Here’s another way.
Thank goodness for the [...]

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Firefox brought us perhaps the real best thing since sliced bread - tabbed browsing. Now why the heck should you hide the precious thing? I’d have to admit that I used to think that I’d rather not browse the web at all if I have to go back to the days of IE6 and [...]

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I’m glad, that among my circle of computing friends, keyboard ninjitsu is now becoming a standard skill. As with many cases, not having to lift your hand from the keyboard to fiddle with your mouse (or any other pointing device for that matter) to execute commands is a lot quicker.
If you’re using Word and [...]

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And each day we get closer to the new Firefox and what we have now is Beta 1 of Firefox 3. As with any Beta, expect bugs and what not. But the beauty about fiddling around with the Beta is that you get the feel of things to come - pretty handy if you’re [...]

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As a researcher, listing sources for the bibliography can really be a chore especially when you have to document a whole lot of website URLs. Tabbed browsing was really heaven sent but one should still have a system to easily document these. One trick I do is to print the pages as PDF so [...]

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This time, the bill’s focused on victim restitution. Sponsored by Democrat Patrick Leahy, the new bill allows:
…victims of identity theft to seek restitution for the time they spend to fix the problems. The bill would allow prosecutors to go after criminals who threaten to take or release information from computers with cyberextortion, and it [...]

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If you’re a web developer doing studies and observing page sources of websites then you know how hard it is to read through sloppy coding. While I am a stickler for organizing code with a system of indentations, I could lapse once or twice too especially if there are just too many lines to [...]

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Creating design accents and borders in PowerPoint need not be too complicated. A pattern of default shapes can easily do the job. Creating a pattern of evenly-spaced and symmetrical shapes can create a nice effect for your template. If you’re not too experienced in using the mouse, it is quite difficult to create even [...]

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