Pandora.com is quite a nice web application. If you’re not familiar with Internet Radio, it’s a way to stream music to your computer according to may want to listen to, without having to create mixes of music on your own. Most of the time, there’s no audio advertising, which was one upside to mixing your [...]
View PDFs Online
March 9, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Some have found Adobe Reader to be annoying, bloated, and just a plain pain in the rear. There are alternatives like FoxIt, but if you want to abolish PDF readers all together and still be able to look at the occasional PDF, here’s a nifty service called PDFMENOT. This service allows you to either view [...]
More Free Games
March 8, 2008 by 1 Comment
Tired of the same ol’ games you’ve been playing for months? Can’t find anything new to play? You’re in luck–Wikipedia has two lists of free games that you can download and play. And no, most of them don’t fall under the category of cheesy flash-based games on the web. Many of them are similar to [...]
Find Installed Hardware And Software Without Opening Your PC
March 7, 2008 by 1 Comment
Sometimes, unplugging everything from your PC and opening it up just to find out what the model of the motherboard or PCI card is turns out to be a real pain. There are a few utilities out there that you can simply run and they will tell you what hardware and software live in your [...]
Can Your Computer Run It?
March 6, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Here’s an interesting site that’s useful in a pinch for determining whether or not a certain game will be able to run on your hardware: Can You Run It. Basically, you select the game from the dropdown and hit the “can you run it” button. This will work in either IE or Firefox (sorry Opera [...]
Navigating Windows Explorer By Keyboard
March 5, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Many people like navigating by keyboard. It can sometimes be faster and more efficient then using a mouse once you get the hang of it. Here’s two useful shortcuts that may help in that regard. To open up Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer), simply hold the Windows key and press E. No matter where you [...]
TV Converter Box Coupon Program
March 3, 2008 by Leave a Comment
On February 17, 2009, all TV stations will cease broadcasts of analog signals and go completely digital. What this means is that analog TVs will be obsolete, so anyone with antennas or rabbit ears would no longer receive TV signals. People with satellite and (most) with cable boxes should be unaffected. Instead of forcing everyone [...]
Interpret CSS With Ease
January 15, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Anyone from a beginner web developer to an expert has had to sit down at one time or another and figure out the CSS code for a web page. Sometimes it takes time because either you may be unfamiliar with the way some of the code is implemented, or because the sheer complexity and length [...]
Use a Domain Name Instead Of Your IP
January 14, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Having to remember your home IP address, especially when it changes from time to time, is rather cumbersome, especially if you tend to use VNC, SSH, Remote Access, or any other method to access your home computer/network. Here’s how to do it: Register for an account at DynDNS. This is a dynamic DNS service where [...]
Open PDFs Outside Of Your Browser
January 13, 2008 by 1 Comment
One function you might find annoying with PDFs and PDF Readers is that when you click on a link to a PDF, it opens in a browser window, rather than its own PDF Reader window. Here is how to change this behavior for each of the major browsers: In Opera, go to Tools > Preferences [...]
Put IE7′s Menu Bar On Top
January 12, 2008 by 3 Comments
One of the most common annoyances early on with IE7 was that the File Menu wasn’t on top as with most Windows applications. Here’s a quick registry tweak to move it to the top of the window where you would expect to find it: Go to Start > Run and type regedit. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet [...]
Disable Outlook 2003 Connectivity Balloon Error Messages
January 11, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Outlook 2003 automatically displays error messages from the system tray when connectivity issues are detected. Unfortunately, when using mail servers off-site, these balloon tip error messages tend to appear excessively, even when there are actually no problems. You can stop these messages with a couple quick registry fixes: Go to Start > Run and type [...]
Find Open Source Software Alternatives
January 10, 2008 by 2 Comments
Have you ever tried locating an open source software alternative for a common commercial package? An easy quick reference, Open Source Alternative, has listings of commercial products and viable open source alternatives for those products. For instance, if you’re looking for an alternative to Photoshop, you can see a list of open source alternatives that [...]
Rearrange Apps On The Taskbar
January 9, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Some people prefer to keep certain applications open in a certain order on a taskbar. An easy way to keep them positioned; or rather, shuffle their position on the taskbar is the the free program, Taskbar Shuffle. From the description on their website: No hotkeys, no extra steps, just rearrange the buttons on your Windows [...]
5 OS X Tips For Former Windows Users
January 8, 2008 by 7 Comments
Over the past several months, I’ve worked in an environment composed of both Macs and PCs. The Macs in question have mainly been employed for video work, so a degree of cross-platform usage goes on; video primarily on the Macs, and pretty much everything else on the PCs. There’s no avoiding the Macs since I [...]
