Being without a job can really be depressing. As time passes by without having any luck with a job hunt, your sense of self-worth slips and you begin to question your ow capabilities. You might even forget all your accolades in the past and continue to sulk. This is apart from the challenges of keeping [...]

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This just yet end all my about:config tips and tweaks but what a nice way to end it (unless Firefox 3 comes out and we’ve got another set of configuration settings to tinker with). What’s tricky with the about:config tweaks is that you have to strain your eyes for the preference names and manually change [...]

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I have to admit that I use Yahoo! Messenger just a bit more than my other IMs. It’s simply because most of my contacts and friends also use Y!M as their primary IM. However, for e-mail purposes, I’m a hardcore Gmail user. I just think the simple interface and mailbox space can’t be beat. Yahoo! [...]

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Munching on carrot sticks and celery sticks can drive a food-loving person crazy. Especially if you resolved to lose that paunch that’s worth a few pounds. But does that have to mean that you can’t enjoy snacks anymore? It sometimes is a killer to deprive yourself of the good eats. Carrots and celeries just would [...]

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Camping is probably one of the great family traditions. While you may have your RVs or campers to use as your mobile home, I guess there’s just more to the tent, sleeping bags, and campfire to really have that outdoors experience. In any case, planning and packing for a camping trip can be a really [...]

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Here’s another one to help you with your design woes. As I’ve mentioned for a few posts, one of the best ways you can design your site is through proper color schemes. However, even if you have web tools and palette generators, you might still find it hard especially if you aren’t a pro designer. [...]

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Hallelujah! One feature that I hoped that Google Reader would have is an option to search through feeds. I usually have a thousand plus items in my Reader and browsing through all of them for pertinent information can be a chore. Besides, that’s what Google’s known for, right? So I wonder why it takes a [...]

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While this is a popular boy scout recipe, this can constitute as one of th ose quick meals you can fix for yourself in a jiffy. Here’s a recipe for the traditional boy scout favorite 30-Minute Stew.Campfire meals can really be a time saver for anyone who just doesn’t have enough time for gourmet feasts [...]

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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 [...]

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Blogging in one’s boxers (or pajamas) has been a term used for bloggers and some telecommuters who never give squat about what they wear when they work. Besides, that’s the beauty in telecommuting, you don’t have to be there physically and you work in your preferred way. If you like blogging in the buff, you [...]

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The last time we featured a Firefox torrent add-on was with FoxTorrent. While it was an interesting add-on, it never had me discarding my main torrents application. Besides, all it does is to use Firefox as an interface for another engine that does the torrent download. Once installed, it effectively uses Firefox to do the [...]

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Internet Explorer is one of the banes of web design and development. And as a web designer, you’re forced to make sites work across platforms especially IE since it is still the dominant browser in terms of usage. The problem is it works quite differently across versions. Browsershots should be the ideal site for you [...]

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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), [...]

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Tired of all your prototypical pizzas? Maybe it’s time you exploit all those build-your-own pizza options pizza delivery chains offer you. But this would sometimes backfire and you’d end up with something a little too similar like one of their regular pizzas with you paying just a bit more because you had your choice of [...]

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I never really used RealPlayer save perhaps during the days when it was the only streaming player online. Yes, that would probably back when I was using a 33.6 kbps dial-up connection. I’ve never really used it again with all the other media and as more and more websites shifting their content out of the [...]

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