Hehehe. Here’s another one of those news that makes you go “What the heck?” In an announcement made by Apple, they warned iTunes users not to upgrade to Vista just yet and stick with good old Windows XP citing some compatibility issues that still have to be tried and tested out with the new MS [...]

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Here’s yet another great tweak for Firefox users. It’s not a add-on. And it’s not an update either. It’s Firetune a Firefox program that gives you Firefox a tune-up. It features a one-click tune-up process that is completely reversible. What is does is it changes the settings to what has been tried and tested to [...]

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Google’s mail service, Gmail, has now open it’s doors to everyone. No more SMS sign-ups. No more invites. Just a sign-up form to accomplish and 2.8 GBs of mailbox space is all yours. Your move, Yahoo!. Soruce: Gmail opens it’s doors at Forever Geek

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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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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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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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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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A lot of friends have been asking me, how was I able to playback all sorts of video files from Real, to Quick Media, to DivX, to Windows AVI. I tell them it’s a matter of having all the necessary codecs (coder-decoder) in your system. These are small internal tools that allow your media player [...]

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With Vista rolled out for home use across the globe, Microsoft also rolls out it series of applications to support it. One of the latest ones hot off the grill is Windows Live Messenger 8.01. Here are what it has in store: Improved compatibility with Vista Vista interface with new emoticons and contacts display SMS [...]

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