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 [...]

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

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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 [...]

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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.

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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 [...]

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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 offers [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Saw this article from Digg. Now Speedtest.net used to be a pretty boring site with your common speed stats displayed. But they’ve revamped the site including a pretty snazzy interface and comparison data. If you’re wondering how your Internet connection matches up with the rest of the world (or if your provider duped you with [...]

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Firefox 3, which is due out later this year, will probably contain a slew of new features. As as Firefox junkie, I’m all too anxious to get my hands on the final version. As news has it, 3 will probably include features like offline support for Web applications. One thing they’re also looking at is [...]

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Kids and computers go well with each other nowadays. And many software are really designed for them featuring kid-friendly intuitive interfaces complete with bulging buttons. Anyway, here’s a paint tool that’s designed for kids – Tux Paint. It’s got enough features to keep kids interested ages 3 and up. It has paint effects, bucket filling, [...]

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So Google has us all nuts with all of their services. And only someone nuttier would probably take score of everything and memorize each and every one of them down to search syntaxes and keyboard shortcuts. So thank goodness for this guy who just made using Google services a tad easier – the Google Cheat [...]

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I’m not really a sound engineering but I like audio. I did a few mixes myself and done some voice acting. I still play the guitar when I can. And if there’s one thing that I’ve learned from all of that, talent is one thing, but equipment counts. I’ve done some personal recordings using a [...]

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Google Desktop has been reported to have a flaw that no-gooders might exploit. It allows hackers to get into one’s computer, view files, and run unauthorized software. Recently, another attack has been uncovered. It’s called an anti-DNS (Domain Name System) pinning. It lets attackers access data indexed by Google Desktop. Google Desktop hasn’t released an [...]

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