Firefox 15 has just been released, and it’s noted on this Mozilla blog that Fx 15 “prevents most memory leaks” caused by add-ons. I wasn’t so much interested in that, but rather if Fx actually releases memory properly when a tab is closed. From my cursory examination of the browser, yes it does. FINALLY. The [...]
Many people are under the delusion that a factory reset of a smartphone device will clear all the user data in it. Not usually. In most devices there are remnants of user data left behind which could easily be used for identity theft purposes. So before you sell off that smartphone device, here are the [...]
System resets of GPS devices I know for a fact do not clear the data in the unit as I’ve owned enough Garmin GPS devices to figure that out. What I’m going to tell you below specifically applies to Garmin devices, although it can be applied to any GPS device as the data I’ll mention [...]
Sony has definitely seen better days. The company posted a fiscal loss of 5.8 billion (yes, billion with a big fat B) in 2011, and the shucking of the optical drive subsidiary is part of their restructuring plan. For those shopping around for optical drives, you may in the near future see Sony-branded optical drives [...]
You’re going to find this both cute and probably slightly disturbing at the same time: So what we have here is yet another demo of a walking robot, this one ant-like with its six legs (if it were spider-like it would have eight). When you start to see this thing walking, then running, that’s when [...]
What I’m talking about here isn’t the physical desk your computer sits on but rather the files and shortcuts on your computer operating environment’s desktop. It is easy (almost too easy) to plop things on the desktop and simply not care about it. However over time it can turn into an organizational nightmare. Now I [...]
RSS is something that’s been around for years (well over 10), works exactly like it should and easily keeps you up to date on your favorite site’s content (including this one). The web in general tried and pretty much ultimately failed to get all of us to “share” our news via social site to keep [...]
I had done up a written article about this, but it’s better to show it in video to get a better idea of how to go about use basic messaging from SMS to email and vice versa. Any cell phone can send a text message to an email address, however the *reply* has to be [...]
KernelEx is freely available on SourceForge and allows you to run apps that require Windows XP to work in Windows 98. Note that this only works for some apps, as you’ll see in the video below. For those of you running older Win98 computer boxes (most likely for retro MS-DOS gaming), you can now eke [...]
A situation that’s happened to all of us at one point or another: You’re typing up something inside a web browser. Could be Facebook. Could be email. Could be a blog editor. Whatever. Then it happens. *Poof*, everything you typed is gone. It happens instantly and there’s absolutely no way to get your text back. [...]
In a not-so shocking report, 47% of US consumers feel they don’t need 4G LTE. When it comes to network speed improvements/upgrades, eventually you get to a point where faster isn’t better and turns into hurry-up-and-wait mode. For most people on mobile, that’s exactly what 4G LTE is perceived as. 4G (and even 3G) connectivity [...]
This is a quick tip for anyone that encounters annoying pausing or freezing when attempting to empty the Windows Recycle Bin. The #1 reason why the Recycle Bin pauses when going to empty it is probably because you have an external hard drive connected to your computer. When the external drive isn’t in use (even [...]
I’m sure more than a few of you have seen “Sent from my iPad” or “Sent from my iPhone” or “Sent from my [insert other smartphone here]” taglines in emalis and possibly forum posts. Personally, I think the best answer to that ridiculousness is to use a tagline stating you sent the message from an [...]
(continued from part 1) A quick about how POP mail works Post Office Protocol mail works in such a way where in the inbox and only the inbox is downloaded by a mail client such as Thunderbird. In other words, anything not in the inbox is not downloaded. Move everything in webmail from “Incoming OLD” [...]
In the way I personally do email, I perform an annual cleanup. When January rolls around, I download all my email, store it locally using a mail client, then back it up to media. After that I delete everything that’s stored in the web account. I pretty much have to do this because if I [...]
