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 in [...]

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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 [...]

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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 can [...]

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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 [...]

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If you’ve work with measurements, you probably know how tedious it is to convert from one system of measure to another. Inches to centimeters. Liters to quarts. Celsius to Fahrenheit. These sure gave me a headache back in school. So until now, working on the web, I encounter different units of measurement (especially when researching [...]

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If you’ve browsed you computer with hidden and system files showing, you may have encountered this peculiar file named Thumbs.db especially in folder filled with media like videos and pictures. Don’t worry it’s just your thumbnails cached by the system. It’s not a virus but they’re all over your computer. Maybe you’ve also experienced changing [...]

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Backups. Backups. Backups. Can’t say more about the importance. But if you’re a busy worker, backups can be an added chore. So why not schedule them? Cobian Backup is a backup utility that backs up copies of certain files and directories from one location to another location (another drive or even a shared location in [...]

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It has been a while since the PDF has been the de facto standard for secure electronic copies of documents. To whom does the world owe the technology? Well to Adobe no less. It’s easy to chew out why PDF. It’s open format, works on different platforms, secure (with different restrictions), accessible… Bottom line is [...]

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Tinkering with your computer can be a pretty engaging task. It’s always a good thing to keep your files organized and reduce desktop and directory clutter. However, a lapse in deletion or moving or copying of files can lead to very serious problems. A misplaced system file for example, can easily crash Windows. Or maybe [...]

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Now here’s another neat freeware. For you iPod addicts that carry all sorts of music and video with you everywhere, how about putting in downloaded vids from YouTube in that little thingamajig? IPOD Video Converter for Free converts a long list of video formats into the iPod video format. So you can just get just [...]

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