By default, Firefox’s search bar can only handle around 30 characters (depending on your resolution and number of buttons). Which is kind of a pain especially when your search string is quite long. And I do have made bad searches because of some unseen typos in the first part of my string that I [...]

• 0 Comments

Hk! This is an interesting how-to courtesy of our sister blog, Gadgetizer. The steps on creating a Windows Vista flash drive installer can be pretty much summarized in these four simple steps:

Buy Windows Vista
Buy a Flash Drive
Format the Flash Drive
Copy Windows Vista’s DVD ROM content to the Flash Drive – use this:
command: xcopy d:\*.* [...]

• 0 Comments

LifeSpy contributor, Mark, posted this here almost a year ago. He cites using 1337 or LEET (substituting numbers for letters, and vice versa) to further “encrypt” your password.
However, a year from that post, many hackers/crackers have developed better ways for them to crack passwords. And it’s harder for us users to be able to [...]

• 1 Comment

I flagged a warning nearly three weeks ago that Mozilla will be revamping their add-ons site. I also, fell into the panic/rush of things to download the XPI files of my favorite add-ons. But for the past few weeks, we see no changes on the site.
Mozilla addresses that with a link to their webdev [...]

• 0 Comments

Funny how I’m putting up all sorts of Vista tips while I, myself, am a self-confessed “un”-fan of Windows Vista. Well, that shouldn’t stop me from giving streamlining tips to Vista users, right?
Anyway, I’ve got plenty of reasons why not to like upgrading to Vista. For one, the cost of hardware upgrade is [...]

• 0 Comments

Here’s a real cool guide on how to set your own Favorites folder location for IE7 in Windows Vista. Yeah, you’d probably need plenty of these tutorials with Vista since it takes the “friendly” out of “user-friendly.” Anyway, here’s the guide, courtesy of IEBlog.

Open Windows explorer
Create a new destination folder in an alternate location. [...]

• 1 Comment

We’re all victims of URL typos. We wonder why we reached a DNS server search page even if we darn well know Google virtually doesn’t have a downtime. Then we look at the URL we typed and lo and behold it’s “google.con”
And our friendly Firefox extensions have just the right tool for such a [...]

• 0 Comments

Here’s a great video tutorial on upgrading from XP to Vista:

• 0 Comments

Microsoft is not just encouraging PC owners to use Microsoft, now, they’re encouraging those who would want to explore programming to do it with them.
Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) launched the Beginner Developer Learning Center - a site that offers lessons and “how-to” videos on programming using Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition.
You can start even [...]

• 0 Comments

CSS is a skill any web designer, even newbies, should learn off the bat. Here’s a post from a while back about 53 important CSS techniques.
It’s a really great list of various techniques that you can use in customizing your website’s visuals and functionality.

Here’s the link.

• 0 Comments

Project Gutenberg has helped a great many of us obtain open domain texts. Practically free books online (some priced at $20 in print, take five books and that’s a good hundred bucks). But reading plain text can be really a bore.
Here’s yet another good freeware that lets you read those plain text e-books book [...]

• 0 Comments

Yet another turn in office productivity suites. Corel’s long-running word processor (which has long been overshadowed by Microsoft Word in terms of popularity) meets a milestone in its release of WordPerfect Lightning Beta.
WordPerfect Beta Lighting offers built-in access to online services which includes collaboration and storage that free users from browser dependence. It [...]

• 0 Comments

Here’s a valid question from a reader. I previously posted the freeware Pivot Stickfigure Animator and and he asks:
“How do you put your Pivot videos on YouTube? Whenever I try it says invalid format. I want to put it on.”
To answer that, first of all, Pivot Stickfigure Animator can only save animation as an [...]

• 28 Comments

Malicious websites and hackers exploit the browser’s capability of running apps and scripts like Java, Javascript and other executables to wreck havoc on your computer.
Here’s a helpful Firefox add-on to help you stop malicious scripts from running - NoScript. It allows you to filter from which trusted sources your browser will allow to run [...]

• 0 Comments

Sometimes some good clean fun can be made with your own pictures and a photo editing software. Now this one’s more than a toy rather than anything else - Distortit.
It’s pretty much similar to the sphere effect in Photoshop where a section of the photo’s magnified, creating a “bulging” effect.
It functions from a stand-alone [...]

• 1 Comment