For some of you, this will probably make your whole week knowing this feature exists in Firefox and has more or less ever since the browser came into existence. Here’s an animated GIF of an ant:Press ESC and the animation plus any other animated GIFs will stop animating. Flash will continue to animate, but all GIFs will stop. The only other browser that...

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 test I used was to load some...

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 is probably left behind in other brands as well. This is what...

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 will admit before...

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 us abreast of the latest/greatest info....

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 out a few more good usable years from the aging Win98...

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. It’s gone forever....

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 if powered and connected), Windows will spin...

(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” to the main inbox Yes, I know, this may take a...

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 don’t, my email becomes unmanageable. During the course of a year...