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Friday, August 29th, 2008Firefox usually has one row of tabs for its tabbed browsing feature. Tabs get reduced in size if the user opens additional websites but that stops eventually and additional tabs are not displayed anymore. The tab bar has to be scrolled to access those websites. Alternatively the icon at the end can be clicked on [...]
How to use the Windows inbuilt Application Launcher
Thursday, August 28th, 2008When was the last time you actually used Internet Explorer as the default browser on one of your Windows computers ? Why bother? Well, instead of installing a program launcher like Launchy you may just want to use the features Windows has already given you to work with.
One of the most usefull feature of Internet [...]
Useability: Linux / Unix v Closed Software
Thursday, August 7th, 2008A tweet from Linda Eastin pointed me at this old blog entry from Daring Fireball on Linux and Spray-on Useability, that takes aim at the Eric Raymond rant on Linux usability (the one where he can’t get CUPS working).
There’s an old engineering adage: “Fast, good, cheap: pick two.” (Where
“fast” regards development time, not performance.) Desktop [...]
Make Gmail the default Firefox 3 Mail Client
Friday, August 1st, 2008If you rely on online mail clients such as Gmail then you might like the following tip coming directly from the official Gmail blog that describes how to to make Gmail the default Firefox 3 Mail client (i.e. the mail client that is loaded whenever a mailto link is clicked in Firefox 3.
You’ll need to [...]
Free online media file conversion
Thursday, July 31st, 2008All-in-one style web-based file and unit converter. Quickly convert between:
- measurement units: size, area, distance, time, velocity, mass, etc.
- file formats: documents (.DOC, .PDF, …), images (..JPG, .GIF, …), audio (.MP3, .WAV, .AAC, … ), and video (.WMV, .3GP, .AVI, …) formats.
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10 Reasons Enterprises Aren’t Ready to Trust the Cloud
Thursday, July 31st, 2008from gigaom…. To summarise,
It’s not secure. Certain companies and industries have to maintain strict watch on their data at all times, either because they’re legally obligated to or because they’re super paranoid.
It can’t be logged, required for compliance purposes.
It’s not platform agnostic. If you need to support multiple platforms, as most enterprises do, then you’re [...]
Portable On-Screen Keyboard
Thursday, July 31st, 2008On-Screen Keyboard Portable is a handy way to bring your settings for the Windows’ built-in On-Screen Keyboard with you from PC to PC. It will remember your hover preferences and other options and provides an easy way to launch it right from the PortableApps.com Menu. For earlier operating systems that lack a built-in on-screen keyboard [...]
Find all your drivers with Double Driver. ~ Ask The Admin
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008If you reformat / reinstall your windows operating system, one of the chores is looking for and downloading drivers….
So what if you had a copy of all your drivers on a USB stick ?
Run Double Driver and copy your drivers off your machine to a USB stick and then restore them right back into your [...]
Work with Office safe modes - Outlook - Microsoft Office Online
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008If you are having problems with a Microsoft Office program, you may be able to use User-Initiated Safe mode to make it possible to run the program. Some situations in which this can be helpful include:
You need to view a file and the Microsoft Office program that you are using is crashing before you can [...]
what is the firefox about: protocol ?
Thursday, July 17th, 2008Many firefox users know that typing about:config in the location bar provides access to user preferences, that can’t be changed any other way.Some fun and useful (occassionally, anyway) Firefox about: links.
about:
about:blank
about:bloat
about:buildconfig
about:cache
about:config
about:crashes (only Firefox 3)
about:credits
about:logo
about:kitchensink
about:license
about:mozilla
about:plugins
about:robots
Either type the links in your firefox location bar or selct the links if you are curious about their purpose.
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