Here’s something for a quick laugh. Ever wonder how your job is making you age disgracefully? You might want to check out this cool Flash-based “aging” progam. It’s Age-o-matic from Careerbuilder.com.
It lets you load a picture. You set some details about work environment with quips like “If my job was an animal, it would [...]

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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 CPU [...]

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Now this is a way to discover music the Web 2.0 way. Pandora is an online music service that’s developed by a group of musicians (who knows better about music than musicians themselves) launched earlier this year. Many are saying that it is the best way to find music over the Web and the [...]

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News flash! To those who think that broadcast quality TV can be done online right now, you might be mistaken. Internet companies have said that they’ve been doing much work just to keep the data flowing from video sites like YouTube and Joost.
Google, who has acquired YouTube last year has said that the Net [...]

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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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E-mailing is a skill that doesn’t only entail knowing how to actually send e-mails or use BCCs. E-mailing is a communication skill, which means you got to know what to writer and how to write it. Here are a few tips on writing power e-mails:

Check your address - You can’t expect to be credible [...]

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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. [...]

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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 capability
“Roaming identity” [...]

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I keep an assortment of passwords for my different accounts. And since it’s not wise to write them down for some snoopy person to see, I just try to memorize all of them. Unfortunately for me, keeping too many passwords makes you forget which password was for a certain account.
It just so happened that [...]

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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a real neat document format created by Adobe. Unfortunately, their default (free) reader, Adobe Reader is quite a resource hog. It’s been a killer to accidentally click on a PDF link only to have Firefox “hang up” for about 20 or so seconds since Adobe Reader is opening [...]

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Yes! More tweaks for Firefox 2. Now, Firefox 2 now has a spell check feature that checks for spelling errors in text entry fields. However, by default, it only checks multi-line fields which leaves you to still be open to spelling errors for single-line fields. But we can make Firefox check those automatically with [...]

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I’m a Firefox user since it came out and honestly, Internet Explorer has just served as a backup browser for those sites that don’t function with Friefox. Anyway, IE 7 is a real looker compared to IE 6, especially when it finally came out with its tabbed browsing feature.
Here are keyboard shortcuts for tabs [...]

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So I’ve already pointed out features of Firefox 2 like tabbed browsing and detailed configuration. As you may have noticed Firefox 2 now features a Close button (that little X) for individual tabs. This is unlike in Firefox 1.X where a solo Close button is located at the right end of the tabs.
Here’s a [...]

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I’ve stumbled upon the news about the latest outbreak of the Storm Worm (which is actually a Trojan-bearing e-mail) about 4 days ago. But I didn’t think it was that serious since Symantec didn’t have a bulletin yet during that time. PC World was one of the first to report it then. But now [...]

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