Archive for February, 2007
A Keyboard Shortcut A Day…Keeps RSI Away !
Stephen Mack is director of TiVoCast operations for, you guessed it TiVo. He’s also a keyboard shortcut guru. As he points out, the less often you have to reach for the mouse, the less strain you put on the wrist, and the quicker you can get your work done at your computer.
After getting a few [...]
Use Windows Uxtheme Patcher to add more themes to Windows XP
If you feel the urge to spruce up your Windows XP look or maybe you want your Windows machine to look like a Mac. STUDIO7DESIGNS Uxtheme Patcher and Windows Themes explains how to do it with the supplied Uxtheme Patcher and links to some great looking themes to try out. Of course, once the [...]
Complete Guide to Optimixing Windows XP
The Complete Guide To Optimising Windows XP – for those of us who didn’t make the jump to Vista, it’s never too late to whip our old WinXP into shape! Optimising Windows XP is a pretty comprehensive guide on how to do that, featuring tweaks from basic to advanced.
Firefox's Memory Leak Bug or a Feature ?
Back when Firefox was a 1.0 “baby” application, many tech. enthusiasts started adopting it and proclaimed it as the future of web browsing. However, ever since it reached a certain version (namely, version 1.5) there has been a continuous rumor of it having memory leak problems.
Thousands of users and bloggers reported that after a certain [...]
Shift+Delete mistyped autocomplete auto-suggestions in FireFox.
You accidentally typed gekeopadie.com into Firefox’s address bar, and now it suggests that whenever you enter “ge.” Remove mistyped URLs from the fox’s suggestions by selecting the entry in the list and hitting Shift-Delete. This trick works for bad suggestions for username textfields also. Just start to type in into the form field until [...]
52 ways to reduce stress
Are you a little stressed? The Counseling Center at Texas Woman’s University came up with fifty two different ways to reduce stress, simply and practically.
Amazing Wallpapers
Posted by theGeek in wallpapers on February 23rd, 2007
We love Smashing Magazine, don’t we ? Again, they have posted a list of creative, inspiring, gorgeous and hilarious wallpapers.
Desktop it.
Wallpapers in sizes up to 1600 x 1200
Desktop Wallpapers.co.uk
Nature, 3d, scenery & landscape wallpaper images and galleries
10 GMail Tips and Tricks.
Download Squad lists some great tips for enhancing your GMail experience.
My personal fav tips are :
Greasemonkey repository at Google Code by Mihai Parparita. Also The Gmail Power Users Google Group attracts many users just like us, looking for ways to extend and bend Gmail to their will. Love these tricks. Take a look.
SysInternal Suite
The Sysinternals Suite contains a large collection of individually executable PC troubleshooting utilities by Mark Russinovich from Sysinternals (which was recently grabbed by Microsoft). Mark Russinovich the guy who revealed to the world that Sony CDs had that nasty rootkit installed has made available a single suite of tools for download. These tools are a [...]
How to burn YouTube videos to a DVD
Amit Agarwal of tech blog Digital Inspiration has written up a great tutorial on how to download and convert YouTube videos to DVDs.