Google first broke the mold of measly 2-10 MBs of mailbox space a few years ago by offering 2 GBs (and counting) of space. Now, about a couple or so years of having Gmail as the king of mailbox spaces, Yahoo shook things up by offering unlimited mailbox space to subscribers. Windows Live [...]

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Well what do you know? Another Firefox Quick Tip for the week.
I’m a WordPress user and I’m sticking to it as my favorite blogging engine. However, one thing that’s quite annoying in dealing with WP is having to use an FTP client to upload themes and plug-ins and that is quite a tedious process. [...]

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I miss writing about things concerning Firefox. I just can’t wait for 3’s beta version to be released. In any case, I guess we’ll just have to content ourselves with extensions. Unfortunately, new ones seem to come sporadically.
Pennypinchers used to clip a lot of coupons from newspapers and magazines to get to those offers. [...]

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Ever wanted to extract the audio from video sharing sites? This trick works only with sites using the FLV format. And here are two ways.
UnPlug + FLV Extract. You can actually use any of the available FLV downloaders. I used to use VideoDownloader but I’ve found that UnPlug works better for me. After downloading [...]

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All hail, The Geek.
Let’s face it. One of the banes of a blogger is comment spam and even with the different spam guards that you can apply to WordPress (our blogging platform of choice), you just can’t beat them all. Here at LifeSpy, we have set comment moderation on to effectively weed out spam comments [...]

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Web 2.0 created the culture of sharing turning every damn netizen to a generous machine. While some people share gold, most share crap. But hey, we can’t totally avoid that since we’ve been filling the Web with crap, ever since, well, ever. Hehehe.
Firefox has been a lot of help for share whores especially since [...]

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Teaching college students business communication required me to dedicate a huge part of the discussion tackling workplace cultures and socio-cultural contexts. I teach in a state university that’s not known for developing the student’s business sense so it took me some extra weeks and a lot of effort to give students’ a glimpse of how [...]

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One of my sworn enemies back in my old job was our network administrator. For one, I’m a firm believer that the research and development should be given a fair amount of buffer for them to be able to be creative and productive. I still wondered why the IT department tried to prevent us from [...]

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Here’s a nice tweak for Google Reader. Most feeds I subscribe to do not always feature complete content. So, in order to read details or the full story, I have to click on links or the feed item’s title to open the web page (in a new Firefox tab). For some this may be [...]

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My Firefox browser notified me again that it needs to restart to install version 2.0.0.6. I was really expecting that the next time I’ll be installing a new version of Firefox will be with Firefox 3 Beta but it seems that Mozilla is patching a few security loopholes with this 2.0.0.6.
Yup, and there’s all [...]

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I wouldn’t know if a lot of people would be interested in this, but hey, some of you just might. It’s an extension that turns your idle Firefox browser into a screensaver by displaying wholesome and hand-picked pictures from the Web to display on your computer. Here’s what their site has to say about [...]

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Google probably wants to stop all the headaches (lawsuits) that came with their acquisition of YouTube. Imagine acquiring buying something for $1.65 B and getting slapped with a lawsuit amounting to $1 B afterwards. Remember Viacom? Well, that’s what happened so it’s pretty much understandable why Google is just intent on developing an anti-piracy [...]

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Jumping into code development is Yahoo! and here’s an interesting release from them - YSlow. It’s a Firefox add-on that uses the Firebug extension to check, based on several criteria, how slow a page loads.
It adds a YSlow tab to Firebug that shows different information about the page. You can check the performance (which [...]

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We’ve taken a break from the daily Firefox Quick Tips since I think we’ve featured a lot of the useful add-ons and the worthwhile tweaks for Firefox 2.0. I still can’t wait for Firefox 3 to come out but that is still a long wait. But here’s a trickle of life to what used [...]

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Sorting, which is probably one of the handiest functions in your stand-alone spreadsheet program, is now available in Google Spreadsheets. A sortbar is now available just below your column that would let you sort data in ascending or descending. You can even drag the sortbar to freeze rows. How’s that for added functionality?
Aside from the [...]

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