Hmm… Ever since I’ve fallen in love with Web 2.0 apps and mashups, I found myself downloading freeware apps less. But some things you can’t live computing without. Mostly, these would be those little apps that tweaks and handles your system’s behavior, leaving you wondering why the heck Microsoft failed to integrate those features in [...]

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Here’s a routine for me and some of my Firefoxer friends before we learned about opening display search results in a new tab – Ctrl + T (open an new tab) -> Click on the search field -> Enter search terms -> Hit enter. That’s before we found out that hitting Alt + Enter or [...]

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Here are some great tips and news elsewhere: Lifehacker – Know what documents to shred and when you should shred them Money Crashers – Give Teenagers An Incentive To Save Money TechPwn – Optimized Firefox for G4, G5, and Intel Macs Computerworld – You’ve Been Hacked: Don’t Compound the Problem Lifehack.org – Delivering Under Pressure

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everybody go to recently just release its Top 5 Blogs at the End of 2007 polls and look who are under Entertainment and Lifestyle: Yup, LifeSpy’s included! Hurrah! It’s nice to know people are starting to read this blog. As you can see, our readership base (that means you, our dear readers) has gone up [...]

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Perhaps, again, one of the things skipped when cleaning the house – light bulbs. Since they can be way up in the ceiling, light bulbs can be a chore to clean but you should. Grime from steam and vapors in the kitchen and dust can greatly reduce luminance. This is why you might suspect a [...]

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A short time ago I posted about how you Boot from a CD in Windows.  When I was looking it up, I found it to be a surprisingly complicated task. Here’s how you Boot from a CD on a Mac. Restart the Computer. Hold down the “c” key when the computer boots up. That’s it.  [...]

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Booting from a CD in Windows, from what I’ve read, can be a bit tricky.  What you’ll need to do is get into your system BIOS and change the settings to start by booting from the disk drive of the computer. To enter the BIOS you’ll need to press a key that access the BIOS [...]

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Learning is a life-long process. You can learn from experience or you can learn from books. You can also learn from other people. But one thing that adults seldom reconsider is going back to school. Further learning helps one cope in certain deficiencies like . Considering further learning generally helps you improve yourself by giving [...]

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I’ve featured a couple of web resources for color scheme picking for design purposes. And I do have a bias for ColorJack:Sphere ever since I started using it. But for those of you who are looking for other resources on color schemes (whether you’re an advanced designer or a fledgling), here’s a massive resource of [...]

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If you’ve been using Firefox since the old days, you may have noticed that in version 2 (Bon Echo), the downloads history list automatically clears itself. This is in contrast to the former behavior (say, in 1.5) where it retains the list. Now this became a performance issue since keeping a long list of downloaded [...]

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We highly recommend this screen cleaner! So you have a laptop…and you touched the screen. Or someone else touched the screen. The point is, touching was involved, and now your screen is dirty and smudgy, and you need a way to clean it up. Have no fear! We have two methods for you to do [...]

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Many things can frustrate you. Career. Finances. Your spouse. Your neighbor’s noisy dog who keeps barking at night. But why do you have to always be. There are solutions to problems and what you need to move on is a positive look on life. Here are some tips on how you can overcome bouts of [...]

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A few weeks ago, I posted these handy tips on saving on grocery bills. Commenters, mamaloo and Isabel have both brought up one of the most important things when grocery shopping – the list.

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Nope, not spam. The old traditional junk mail you get in the mailbox. Getting a heap of unsolicited mail in your postal mailbox can be really irritating, especially when you’re just happy that your mailbox flag’s up. In the years of lore, it means that someone thought of you and sent you a friendly mail [...]

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You just got to love Web 2.0 and the slew of web apps that’s sprouting all over. Ever wondered what song is playing in your head but all you can recall is the melody. That sucks especially if you can’t even string a few words in the lyrics to Google. And if you’re obsessive-compulsive, you [...]

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