It’s a new year. Isn’t it time to update your Twitter profile with a cool new background? Here’s an awesome trick for geeking up your Twitter background with any kind of theme you can imagine. The best part: it automatically updates every day! Read more »
So you’ve a geek to buy presents for this Christmas? Abide by these twelve simple steps and you’re much more likely to get it right. 1. Features matter Given the choice between two similarly priced gadgets, one with more features and the other simply covered in crystals or other “precious” bling, you should definitely pick the feature-laden item. Features trump bling any day. Even if you think you’re dealing with a girly geek, chances are high they are much more interested in what their new gadget can do than how much shiny stuff there is on the outside. And definitely no Hello Kitty. Please. Example: You might think those Swarovski Read more »
Not too sure if you know about this already, but something worth your attention is waving at Gmail.com. Gmail now offers themes… yes, themes! Well I know know it was there for a long time through third-party aps, but now Gmail has ported the theme function from their very own. Getting your theme is as easy as clicking the theme’s tab when you log into your Gmail account. Now to some of you this is a GREAT step towards making Gmail work a little livelier. I could imagine those who work using their Gmail accounts every day. I know how bland and bleh Gmail can be at times. But hey, Read more »
Sometimes Firefox freaks out and for no reason at all, the downloads (Ctrl + J) stop working and it doesn’t allow you to download anything while using the browser. Be it a simple image, or an email attachment – nothing can be done. This problem has happened to me before, and the solution to get the downloads working again (in my case) was very easy – just had to delete one file, the “downloads.rdf” to be more specific, that is suppose to be located in the Profile folder of Firefox. There might be other solutions to solve the “downloads in Firefox problem” – check this page on the Mozilla Knowledge Read more »
Here’s a nifty feature I recently discovered on FireFox 2: Recently Closed Tabs. It’s good that it has been standard for FireFox to warn you if you’re closing multiple tabs. After all, Control-Q (or CMD-Q for the Mac) is dangerously close to Control-W (or CMD-W). I’ve fallen victim to this mistake many a time with Safari, as it gives no warning when closing windows with multiple tabs. But neither browser warns you when you close a single tab. I’ve fallen victim to mistaken middle-clicking on FireFox myself many times, which closes a tab. You can access the recently closed tabs list under the History menu. It gives you the option Read more »
Here is a blog post with some tips on doing more with your PSP than just playing games, like watching videos, listening to iTunes music and playing Flash-based games. They even work for updated PSP firmware (v2.7) First of all, this article won’t include anything “homebrewed” so if you dumb enough to update your PSP to v2.7+ (me included) you’re very lucky to find this, there is one downside, for most of the tricks listed here, you’re going to want a big memory stick, there’s a few counterfeits on eBay (2GB for $89 – actually works, I bought one, fills up to 2GB), or you can take out the cash Read more »
Really more for those that may be new to Firefox, CNet has posted an article with 10 tips for helping to keep Firefox running lean and mean. Everybody who’s experienced the fun of customizing Firefox to his or her liking has a favorite extension. Whether it’s the improved navigation and session-saving friendliness of TabMixPlus or the convenience of All-in-One Sidebar, I can’t imagine living without some of them. It’s empowering to tweak your browser as you see fit, but the price often comes in the form of slower performance and memory hogging. Though Firefox has long been accused of leaking memory, there are simple ways to reduce RAM usage and Read more »
If you use several computers, then you’re likely familiar with the frustration of having to re-input your settings, passwords, bookmarks, history, extensions, and form auto-fill information into your new Firefox installation everytime you re-install your operating system, or get a new computer altogether (lucky you!). I recently got my hands on yet another extra laptop, and I thought of transferring my profile from one of my existing systems. Yes, you can download software that automatically does the backup and restoring for you, but where’s the geekiness in that? Real geeks do it manually–which is perhaps the most straightforward way, anyway. So how do we go about with duplicating a Firefox Read more »
There are plenty of tools with which you can check your disk space. However, Linux already has a built in function to show you just what you need to know. Open a terminal window or push (ctrl+alt+F1 to go to console) and type: # df You will see something like this(your output may be different, depending on how many partitions/harddrives/cdroms you have mounted): Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 78012484 17606992 56442660 24% / /dev/hda1 101086 16400 79467 18% /boot none 516808 0 516808 0% /dev/shm /tmp 247919 7339 227780 4% /tmp This one looks a bit unreadable, because size is represented in 1K-blocks, lets try to make Read more »
As I posted earlier today, Google is exptected to release a chat client within the next few says (although most sources point to Wednesday). However, there are already scores of people making use of the Google Jabber server at talk.google.com in their chat clients (GAIM, Trillian, Adium and iChat). Here is how to do it. Server: talk.google.com Username: youremail@gmail.com Password: yourpassword The server seems to be going up and down randomly. Read more »
