Loyal reader Richard sent us an email yesterday asking about what WordPress plugins we were using on [GAS], so I decided to write a post compiling my 10 favorite ones to answer his question. Like most WordPress plugins, the ones we’re using are all free and easy to install. -Adsense-Deluxe Allows you to quickly place Google AdSense [...]
The folks at PCworld have published an interesting article last week taking a look at Firefox 3′s newest alpha release. If you are like me and are looking forward to the next version of Firefox, head over to PCworld and check this article out. I think you will be pleased by what the next version [...]
I recently installed Vista on a couple of systems at work, and for the most part, everything went flawlessly. The only problem I experienced so far is not with the OS itself, but more with the users who have trouble using Vista’s new functionalities. So when I stumbled on this great list of “how to” [...]
-Top 10 Firefox Extensions to Improve your Productivity 10 great Firfox extensions that can truly improve your productivity. -101 Shareware and Freeware Programs Every Nerd Needs How can a person limit juicy downloads to 101 freeware and shareware choices? Tough calls, but these tools are ones that every nerd needs, or at least should ponder. [...]
The Mozilla Foundation has announced yesterday that starting April 24th, they would stop supporting all versions of Firefox prior to version 2.0. Still running on version 1.5? Hurry up and upgrade before it’s too late! Here’s a link to the latest version of Firefox bundled with the Google toolbar.
Talk about a bad day at the office: a computer technician working for the Alaskan government accidentally wipes out nine months’ worth of critical data, only to find later that his backup plan isn’t working. Ouch! If you’ve used a computer for long, you’ve experienced the chilling moment when you realize you’ve mistakenly deleted something [...]
Before you start reading this article, I want you to take a trip back into your past when you were being taught the decimal system. Personally, when I was in elementary school (in the 70′s/80′s), teachers used to use a column system to teach us about numbers: [Thousands] | [Hundreds] | [Tens] | [One] The [...]
Right after the months of Apple, PHP and browsers bugs, 2 “security researchers” have decided to follow the “Month of Bugs” trend and make April a month of daily MySpace vulnerability disclosures. According to the duo, the main goal of this new effort is not really about making MySpace more secure but more about showing [...]
-How-to: Installing Ubuntu Linux on a usb pendrive This tutorial will show how-to install Ubuntu on a usb stick. Even though this tutorial uses Ubuntu as its base distribution, you could virtually use any type of Linux liveCD distribution. -How to Idiot-Proof Your Parents’ Computer The title of this article is pretty self-explanatory isn’t it? [...]
-10 Fun Facts About Storage Just make it bigger, faster, cheaper -Building a Wireless Network for Dummies “I have recently been asked to setup a wireless network in home of one of my close friends. It was then when I first realised how litte people know about wireless technology and implementation.” -Reading your Hotmail email [...]
Microsoft have been working on what they say is a revolutionary digital photo format for years now, and now, Redmond plans to submit the new format to an organization that has the main task of analyzing new international standards. ‘HD Photo’, which was formerly called “Windows Media Photo”, is Microsoft’s answer to the aging JPG [...]
At GDC today, AMD announced a suite of tools for developing handheld gaming content for the company’s next-generation mobile graphics chips. These chips support the same Unified Shader Architecture as the Xbox 360′s ATI-designed GPU. Are phones the last stop here, or could the “Xboy” be on its way? For years now there have been [...]
