The PDF as a file format has really caught on and even when interchanging documents with friends and clients alike, I always export them via PDF rather than assuming they have Microsoft Word or OpenOffice. While generally, it’s not something that becomes a problem, many people hate having to fire up Adobe Reader. Loading it [...]

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I have to admit that it took me a while to install Greasemonkey with my Firefox just because I like to keep things simple. I’m a minimalist of sorts. Still, finally getting around installing opened new doors for me and installing a few scripts streamlined my browsing experience a bit more. And I know there [...]

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We haven’t really raised the issue here but this was big news everywhere else and it should be. A week ago, Microsoft decided to buyout web-pioneer Yahoo! for $44.6 billion. And recently, reports state that Yahoo!’s board decided to reject Billy and his boys’ unsolicited bid. The bid, apparently places Yahoo!’s shares at just $31 [...]

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So our favorite browser is quite the memory hog and, as I’ve been told, it loads quite slowly too compared to Opera and even Internet Explorer (a travesty!). And it’s quite true. Even with Windows Vista prefetch, a dual-core processor and a couple gigs of RAM, it still takes quite a while to load. Apparently, [...]

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I have had my beef with Wikipedia being used as a source for academic work but I can’t deny it’s usefulness for quick and dirty information gathering. But with the 2,209,000+ articles, browsing through the pages can be tedious chore. Unless, of course, you get a sneak peak of what lies behind a link. Well, [...]

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And who would’ve thought that even e-mails have a sending limit? We know that there are caps on the file sizes of attachments and that you have more-or-less a 6GB limit in your mailbox space but a sending limit? Probably to safeguard using the system for spamming. Exceed the limits and you get a lockdown. [...]

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We’re inching closer and closer to the release of our favorite browser and we’re expecting Beta 3 to be released soon. Mozilla has just frozen the code for Beta 3 but indicated that there might yet be a Beta 3.1 before they move on to giving us the Release Candidate versions. One great feature they’ve [...]

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I’m still surprised at how some people still type down sentence-long search terms for Google. “Sex” gives you around a billion search results buy say you’re just looking for “sex wax” for your surfboard. Good luck getting the search result you want. You’d probably surf through millions of adult sites and wouldn’t get to anything [...]

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A few weeks back, we featured Bugmenot, a site that offers free use of usernames and passwords for free-to-register sites. It offers quite the convenience especially for those who just need to visit a site once and that’s about it. Figures that they now have a Firefox extension to boot. What it does is that [...]

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People are now into all sorts of ways to search for a decent relationship. One avenue that has been recently popular is online dating. The world of online dating is so hot right now that possibly anyone can have a date now. So much so that this business has a growing number of customers ranging [...]

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If you’re a big fan of cute pets, then Icanhascheezburger.com would surely be a thing of interest for you. Especially if you find amusement in those LOLified captions that they put on the pictures of cute cats. Now, have you ever thought of remaking your website to be just like that? Well if you think [...]

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Before the day ends, I’d just like to wish Wikipedia (the one-stop resource for lazy students), a happy birthday. While everyone is still having problems with their dates (I know some who still end the dates with a “7″), this just made me realize the growth of Wikipedia as a resource and the time that [...]

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I love TinyURL. While you don’t see me using them generated links here. I use them quite often in my other blogs. Posting links in Twitter is probably the most practical use I have for it save for the obvious trimming of thousand-character long URLs. But as a security cushion, wouldn’t you want to know [...]

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It’s a good thing Mitch over at Firefox Facts followed up on a previous post on launching Firefox tabs through the command line because that led me to more command line arguments from the Mozilla site. Here are some of my picks from the long list: Start Firefox in Safe Mode: firefox.exe -safe-mode Open the [...]

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“Rise up. Help others download a more interesting life.” How’s that for Firefox’s campaign to make people download and use the browser. And Mozilla seems to be going all out in this one complete with a website, an anthem and crazy stats on Firefox users like: * 123% more likely to be a student * [...]

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