One thing I’ve been experiencing with Vista so far is it’s unfriendliness to a power user like me. I mean, I love to tweak my system (and Windows XP just let me do just that) and I’m really annoyed by the all the confirmation dialogs that pop up just about every time. It seems [...]

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No, this isn’t for your game cheats. But if you’re an productivity monkey who would want a comprehensive reference of cheat sheets available for a multitude of tasks from blogging to browsing to office productivity suites to programming, this site is just for you. I might just agree with Lifehacker that this site is [...]

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Okay, okay. I know I’ve been a critic of Windows Vista and you might be wondering why the heck I’m writing Vista tips. I’ve recently acquired for myself a laptop and it came with a free Windows Vista Home Basic OS. Since I figured I’m still paying for it (even if they say it’s [...]

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One of my least used Windows component is XP’s Messenger. And it’s got an annoying behavior to show up once in a while running in the background our sitting quite smugly in my system tray. Now, by logic, I can remove it easily by removing it from my installed Windows components. But lo and [...]

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Here’s another PDF viewer that promises an alternative to the ever-bloated Adobe Reader. We’ve already featured a great alternative in Foxit Reader but this one you might find more interesting with its more advanced features like comments and annotations which were previously found not in Reader but in the paid and expensive Acrobat Professional. [...]

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Hot off the news and into your computer. Google just made available Google Gears (BETA). It’s “an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using JavaScript APIs.” These include:

Store and serve application resources locally
Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database
Run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness

Imagine web [...]

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Blame Firefox for my love for tabbed browsing. Then Internet Explorer followed suite with tabbed browsing. It only left me with a wish to have tabbed browsing with all my apps, especially Windows Explorer.
And it’s a good thing we’ve got freeware developers to help us out. I just stumbled upon this neat freeware that [...]

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There have been a lot of image to icon converters since the days when Windows finally allowed users to customize icons. Like for vainglorious people who’d like their smug mugshots as their My Computer icon.
For some pros, it’d be a lot easier to just use a file format plug-in for programs like Photoshop to [...]

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Hmm… Ever since I’ve fallen in love with Web 2.0 apps and mashups, I found myself downloading freeware apps less. But some things you can’t live computing without. Mostly, these would be those little apps that tweaks and handles your system’s behavior, leaving you wondering why the heck Microsoft failed to integrate those features [...]

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I’ve been trying out a heck of a lot of DVD converters and I think HandBrake’s one most user-friendly converters. HandBrake’s an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter.
So as easy as a few clicks, your DVD is on its way to be converted to a MPEG-4 video that can be saved either [...]

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Here’s a tip for newbies who would want to boot from a CD/DVD.

Make sure that the CD is bootable.
Yup. Pretty much common sense. You can’t expect to boot from a CD that doesn’t just let you do that. The Windows 95 (as far as I can remember) isn’t bootable. Windows 98 and up are.
To [...]

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“Oh she looks like *insert celebrity here*.” Never mind the following qualifiers like “only if she had bigger boobs and fuller lips.” But we all crave praise and a bit of flattery at times. Being compared to a pretty celebrity would often more than make your day.
Here’s an interesting piece of freeware that [...]

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Here’s a break from all the serious and streamlining how-tos, tips, tweaks and downloads here on LifeSpy. I should’ve featured one a month ago during April Fools only that I got this neat freeware prank app from a friend just recently. Yup, you read me - prank. Boys will be boys.
Add/Remove v1.00 is a [...]

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This is one irk that I have with Windows XP. I “lose” some precious hard drive space from time to time. You’ve probably experienced this yourself with XP. After a good accounting of where you’re spending disk space (tallying the used versus the free), you might find a large discrepancy between the numbers.

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Ever wonder what your name means? Or are you a soon-to-be parent looking for a name for your child? Here’s a neat tool that lets you in on what’s in a name.
Pesonaemicon is a simple offline version of the Personaemicon website which has access to 4000+ names in its database.
It has a simple interface [...]

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