I love favicons. It helps me associate sites easily with their icons. I don’t have to read through names and descriptions and that saves me a lot of time. But for those who’d rather have a neater bookmarks folder, this little tweak may be of service. You can disable favicons from displaying by doing the [...]

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In my previous look into workplace quirks, Microsoft is one of those who expressed that meetings is one of those work hours leeches that workers have to deal with. I know some workers who also think likewise. Are meetings really that detrimental to productivity?

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Cases of tainted food from superstores continue to come up. While there’s still the salmonella scare in peanut butter, here’s another one on E. coli tainted beef sold at Safeware stores in Arizona.

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Here’s a tip for those who want more customization with their Firefox interface. This tweak allows you to use a custom background image for your toolbars. Pick an image in GIF format (it must be) Place it in the same directory as the userChrome.css Open your userChrome.css (Here’s how) Insert this code at the bottom [...]

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Walls can take a beating some time and this includes those little nicks and accidental nail holes. Even little dings and holes can be eye sores. Here are some quick patch ideas that you might want to try out on your wall. Here’s a collection of quick-patch tips I’ve been keeping notes on.

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Subscriptions are sometimes the better route than to buy magazines off the stands at full price. Subscriptions can sometimes save you a couple or so copies a year or get some value-added gifts for your troubles. But magazine subscriptions can be quite expensive in the long run. If you’re only out for a great reads [...]

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A lot of the things we do can make people hate you and eventually get into trouble with them. I drafted a list of 10 of those things. These are things that can always be avoided but are just too easy to commit. You believe that your opinion is always right. You doubt anything that [...]

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For those of you, not familiar with leet (or 1337), it’s a way of writing that substitutes similar looking characters for the letters in a word. For example l in “leet” becomes 1, e becomes, 3 and t becomes 7. It’s supposed to be the elite computer user’s (hacker’s) language. Now how about transforming typed [...]

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Perhaps one thing of which workaholics deny themselves is the other four letter word – “life” (and a bunch of other fun four letter words). There are a lot of business owners and top managers drown themselves in too much work that their personal lives take a beating. And there are also a lot of [...]

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Last week, Google Maps added a preview of Street View, a feature that allows viewing of 360 degree views down to the street level. And it seems that Google’s improvements don’t stop there. Google just got Transit data and incorporated them to Maps and Earth. Transit’s data includes public transportation information – where these are [...]

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Personally, I think having both the throbber and the progress bar is overkill since both indicate if the page is still actively loading. I prefer just having the progress bar since it also serves as a meter for how far the page is in the loading process. However, some might find the progress bar a [...]

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One of my least used Windows component is XP’s Messenger. And it’s got an annoying behavior to show up once in a while running in the background our sitting quite smugly in my system tray. Now, by logic, I can remove it easily by removing it from my installed Windows components. But lo and behold, [...]

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The next-format wars rages still with Sony slashing $100 off their latest Blu-ray player. Their BDP-S300 Blu-ray player now costs a mere $499 which is around half of what their first players amounted to. One of the biggest criticisms against Sony’s Blu-ray disc is the cost of their players as opposed to their high definition [...]

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Antique furniture may give at out one time or another. And these breaks usually happen in the joints where they take much of the stress over the years. If you are planning to repair the joint, it will be a lot easier if you get down into separating the joints. Here’s a great tip on [...]

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If you’re a serious browser fiend who works across multiple pages at a time, you may find tab browsing (even in its glory) a bit insufficient. You may want to have your pages displayed all at the same time. This feature would be really helpful to researchers who would want to compare two or more [...]

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