Working With Hotmail Taglines
Did you know the stupid advertisement at the bottom of every email sent from a free Hotmail account can be deleted by you before sending? Watch the video and find out how.…
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Demystifying AMD VISION
Back in 2009 AMD introduced VISION. This is an attempt by AMD to make it easier to purchase a PC. There are several types of VISION, which I’ll cover in a moment. The Help Me Choose is the best place to start to see what you get for specific VISION, but here’s a quick cheat-sheet: ...…
Living With A Netbook – 7 Months Later
In August 2009 I bought a refurbished Dell mini 10v netbook. The specs are exactly the same as when I bought it, that being a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, wi-fi a/b/g/n and not much else. Make no mistake, this is a low-spec computer. It has the equivalent computing power of a ...…
Long Haul Printer Paper Options
When I say “long haul”, I’m referring to printer paper that can take abuse. Printer paper by nature is fairly chintzy. Even a piece of paper that’s less than 3 months old can start to yellow with age. Sometimes you need better paper. Here are your options. Paper that “soaks” better You’ve most likely used ...…
Importing and Exporting Yahoo! Mail with IMAP
This is a complicated process, but it does work. Here are the steps as outlined above in the video. It is strongly recommended that you do not perform this process on your primary operating system due to the fact the Thunderbird used here is an unstable build. Use a sandbox environment such as XP inside ...…
Shorten URLs From Address Bar, Firefox or Opera
Shortening URLs is a common thing many of us do when we want to share long links as short URLs via email, instant messenger and so on. In Firefox and Opera you can use the address bar to get the dirty work done easy. For this example I’ll use http://is.gd, a popular URL shortening service. ...…
Manually Adjusting Scroll Lines In Firefox
If you’re like me, you use the scroll wheel on your mouse. A lot. With web browsers there is much scrolling and that’s just the nature of how web pages work. Firefox does have the ability to manually control how many lines are scrolled up or down, and this can be done completely outside Windows ...…
How To Create Dazzling High Quality Wallpapers Easily
Is there a way to create super-cool looking ultra-high-quality unique computer wallpaper – even with absolutely no artistic skills – simply by the click of a button? As a matter of fact, there is. A free software title, Apophysis, will allow you to do it. Here’s how: First, download Apophysis using the above link. Second, ...…
