Today’s tip will be a quick one as the much anticipated Firefox 3.5 is now available for download. This new version boasts a faster javascript engine, HTML 5 support, private browsing and overall faster performance. If you are interested you can read about all the changes here. Before upgrading, make sure all the add-ons you use are compatible with the new...

On YouTube there are more than a few prominent video-makers there that have run into the problem of having videos pulled (or accounts outright banned) due to them not being family friendly. Personally I think the term family friendly is fairly easy to figure out, however when it comes to YouTube the lines are blurred as it appears to be dependent on whether the...

First of all, I’m stealing the tagline of Miro HD Video Player for the title of this tip.  Miro is an open source application which connects to free Internet repositories of video and downloads them to your machine for viewing. You can think of Miro as a Tivo for Internet TV as you can save shows from their guide and when new shows are available, they are...

If you really want to dig into Firefox customizations and make some interface changes which may not be available through existing themes or add-ons then utilizing the userChrome.css file is what you need to do. Don’t worry, you don’t have to learn a scripting language (unless you want to of course) as there a numerous customizations available for you...

There are certain times when you need to access your instant messenger from the web rather than from a client. For example, if you’re at a friend’s house and want to login on his or her PC for a few minutes, it’s the easiest way to get chatting without installing anything. The Big Three are AIM, Yahoo and Windows Live (formerly MSN). AIM The...

Google Wave is poised to potentially be the next big thing on the web. In a nutshell it combines email, chat, voice and documents into a single interface. Unfortunately, it is not publicly available yet so there is a lot of a speculation on exactly what Google Wave does and how it works. If you are curious about it, here is a great Q&A session on Lifehacker...

A lot of people are disliking YouTube these days. If it’s not for their ever-present "scheduled maintenance", it’s for the continually tightening grip on what is considered "acceptable" content and what isn’t. And let’s not forget that the community (and it’s a stretch to call it that) is simply awful. There are...

On the heels of my post yesterday regarding scammers using fake websites to steal information from job applicants, I thought I would post a few pointers to help determine if a website is indeed legit.Does the site look professional? If the site looks very thrown together and has little to no content with typos everywhere, stay away. Is there any contact...

For those of you who host your own blog, it is important to be aware of security issues with the software you are using. Since the seemingly most popular blog packages (WordPress and Joomla to name a few) run on PHP with a MySQL backend, keeping up with respective infrastructure updates is key to making sure your site is safe from exploits. To help with news...

When using social media, you have to be really careful what you do because you can inadvertently give away WAY too much information. In this video, I demonstrate one way that people give away WAY too much info on Twitter. Many mobile Twitter clients that are used on GPS-enabled phones have the ability to update your location on Twitter with your GPS coordinates....