Ever since that tragic day, the US government has gone through lengths to ensure the safety of its people. Probably one of the most apparent signs of this is the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security. It presents a color scheme of five threat levels depending on the level of risk. Now if you [...]

• Comments Off

The problem with the latest Microsoft releases is that they aren’t backward compatible. Take Vista for example. There are only a special number of software that run on it. Good thing they weren’t that inconsiderate with Office 2007. At least, there’s still the option for you to save using older document formats. By the way, [...]

• 2 Comments

To top off my Vista use (even if I continually whine about it), I’ve decided to put some more Microsoft “love” in my notebook with Microsoft Office 2007. I figured that many new users will be using Vista and Office 2007 especially since these little buggers often come with a new PC purchase and since [...]

• Comments Off

I’ve recently had a bout of paranoia so I decided to back things up. And since one of the essential backup tools is having a dependable set of installers, I decided to assembly my backup DVD case – a DVD bag full the essential installers. That’s when it struck me that the copy of Windows [...]

• 3 Comments

I really don’t know what’s the deal with Aero. I’ve got a friend who’s running Home Premium which has Aero. We practically have the same laptop specs and expected battery life and yet, she only gets a measly hour and a half or so in battery mode while I get 2 or so hours, 3 [...]

• 4 Comments

Okay, I’m now trying to be optimistic and look for some positive sides on being a Vista user. And I’ve found one. I remember in XP and with the previous versions of Windows, I usually used the Run line to launch some of the system applications like Notepad or Calculator. Forgive me if I’m not [...]

• Comments Off

I’ve just been retraining myself with some keyboard ninjitsu for Windows Vista as of late and here are a couple of tips for keyboard ninjas. These commands allow you to cycle through the Taskbar items and the System Tray items using the Windows logo key. To cycle through your Taskbar programs Press Windows + T [...]

• Comments Off

Hah! I’m still fuming with Vista’s Defrag and my lost-and-found gigabyte of hard drive space and I’m stuck with it. I would’ve wanted to “upgrade” back to XP but that means I have to shell out money for another OS. It really challenges you ethically. Or maybe it’s time to finally try out Linux at [...]

• Comments Off

I love keeping my hard drives in optimum performance that’s why I always take time to defragment them. I’m running my new laptop on Home Basic (I don’t need the frills of Windows bloatware like Aero) and I’ve decided to do a bit of maintenance and organize my files and give it a good defragmentation. [...]

• 14 Comments

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 like [...]

• Comments Off

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 a [...]

• Comments Off

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 free), [...]

• 100 Comments

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 behold, [...]

• Comments Off

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. Here’s [...]

• 1 Comment

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 [...]

• 1 Comment