Mozilla just released the latest incarnation of Firefox 2 with 2.0.0.4. The release notes emphasize on these important updates: Security Update: The following security issues have been fixed. Windows Vista Support: More enhancements and fixes for Windows Vista are included, with the following caveats. New Languages: Afrikaans (af) and Belarusian (be) are now available. Beta [...]

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If you ever done a paint job and cleaned all your brushes, you would probably have sent your used paint thinner down the drain. I mean what would you have to do with paint thinner with all sorts of colors in it, right? But anything you’ve discarded would definitely have some dollar values to it [...]

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An unfinished bag of chips needs to be restored in a re-sealable container to lock in that fresh crunch. Otherwise, you’ll be dealing with stale chips. Not good, not good at all. Provided that you opened the bag of chips with finesse, not just ripped the bag to shreds, here’s a video to let you [...]

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Now being a self-professed keyboard ninja, I’ve been a bit biased on featuring shortcuts. Sorry. My bad. So let me make it up to you with this summary of mouse shortcuts for Firefox for mouse ninjitsu practitioners. These include navigation and display shortcuts that you execute with a some keyboard modifiers. Yes, it involves a [...]

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Microsoft unveils a new line of surface computer products named Surface. Surface computing is an advanced touch interface. Apart from just being a hand-gesture interface, it is able to recognize real-world physical objects. It just offers a whole new paradigm on how we would rethink input devices. This will be mainly targeted to hotels and [...]

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This has been a long-delayed post. A few weeks ago, Cybers Music officially joined the Bloggy Network fold. CybersMusic promotes the best music from americana, blues, classic rock, country, funk, jazz, latin, metal, pop, R&B, rock ‘n roll & zydeco. So for your music news and reviews fix for the day, head over to Cybers [...]

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I was cleaning some of the old files in my computer and found this little picture I used for one of my reports in an anthropology class back in college. It’s a report on whether our perception of good and bad and what’s safe and not are all constructs. In any case, what I have [...]

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Barbecue is not just an excuse to binge on meat, it’s a lifestyle. Many a lawn is accented by the grill. Some barbecue fanatics even make it the centerpiece of their lawn. However, regardless of what grill you have (if you just have a simple grill or those Rolls Royces of garden grills), you still [...]

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This tip has been around for a while but I think it’s a really nifty feature to merit a reposting. This works with Cocoa text editing engine that’s practically replicated across multiple applications. Pressing Option-Escape calls up a word completion drop-down that provides you with word choices. This was made available in OS X 10.3 [...]

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If it comes from Google, it must be good. Google Maps has just made Street Views available for a couple of cities for you to try out. It’s really amazing. However, it’s only still available where available. Just look at New York and San Diego. It allows you to access street level sights that you [...]

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I have a confession to make. I don’t really go visiting websites anymore. For the past month, I’ve just been using my RSS feed reader (Google Reader) for most of my daily reads and research. Why not? It’s a very streamlined process to get the low-down on what’s new and fresh without the fuss of [...]

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Life is one of those things that you can’t play through “God mode.” But at least in most computing chores, you can. Or at least have a cheat sheet handy. As for Firefox, yes, you can cheat and hack your way through most of the work. I’ve been featuring mostly add-ons and tweaks here that [...]

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One of the dangers of business is collection – getting paid, especially with small business that do not have that large a capital to sustain operations. One way to curb this danger is to ask for a deposit or down payment for the service or product. While it can be a turn-off to customers if [...]

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Sometimes we’re driven by these scary health news bits, especially when you six o-clock news delivered it with such passion and intensity that it makes you a hypochondriac. While most of these breakthrough news are important, be sure to be on your guard with these news items. It’s always best to weed out relevant and [...]

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BBC News Health has this hopefully great news for kids. Children who drank apple juice at least once a day were half as likely to suffer from wheezing as those drinking it less than once a month, it found. Emphasis falls on apple juice and not on eating fresh apples since the studies showed that [...]

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