August 30, 2008
Fun Memorial Weekend Commenting!
Okay, here’s something fun for the memorial weekend. Goto your browser and type a character such as “A” or “B” or any other ASCII characters. (Did you know that most characters default to Google search while “e” defaults to EOnline.com?) If you find any other cool websites that come on on the new Firefox ... More
July 1, 2008
Firefox Hack - RAMBack helps free Firefox Cache/Memory!
Here’s RAMBack, a Firefox add-on that lets you free Firefox cache/memory. This might help you if you run Firefox under really crappy hardware or a netbook. RAMBack will cause Firefox to issue an internal notification to free up memory that is otherwise held for performance purposes. Additional items will be hooked into this notification in ... More
June 24, 2008
Firefox 3 Hack - How to Consolidate your Menu Buttons!
Here’s a cool hack on how to consolidate your menu buttons in Firefox 3. It’s pretty easy to do but in case you don’t know how… Just by moving a few small things around you can have all Firefox’s menu and location bar features, but without them taking up all the real estate. via lifehacker bar features, browser, C ... More
DIY - How to Make a Book using Google Docs!
I’ve been thinking of writing several books lately and I came by this great guide on making a book using Google Docs over at Hackszine. Currently, my editor Brian Jepson and I are collaboratively writing the book (tentatively titled) Google Office Hacks by O’Reilly using Google Docs. I wanted to outline the process we came up with, and ... More
June 19, 2008
Firefox 3 Hack - How to Disable Blinking Text in Firefox!
Here’s a cool hack for disabling the blink settings on your Firefox 3. o extension or user script required: just type about:config in Firefox’s address bar, press the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button, and then in the Filter field, enter browser.blink_allowed. Change the value for that key from true to false, and y ... More
June 11, 2008
DIY iPhone HACK - How to get Free Online Magazines!
Well, here’s another cool hack that lets you get free online magazines using the same hack to get free wifi at Starbucks. You have an iPhone, or the handy User Agent Switcher for Firefox, there are a couple of sites that offer free digital versions of several popular magazines. I guess the idea is to try and capture email addresses, but you ... More
June 5, 2008
18.41% of World Internet Users use Firefox!
Wow, Firefox has been steadily growing real fast… I remember about 2-3 years ago when Firefox use was at only about 5%. Go Firefox! Kill IE for good. The only thing with Internet Explorer is that a lot of foreign countries such as Korea, have adopted to use IE exclusively for internet banking, which you can not use Firefox for. Still, more ... More
May 29, 2008
DIY Wifi HACK - How to Get Free Wifi from Starbucks and AT&T Hotspots!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s a cool little hack that let’s you get free wifi from Starbucks or AT&T Hotspots! Basically, you change the “User-Agent” to iPhone User Agent, which is the header part of HTTP transmission. Then you put in the phone number of an ... More
May 28, 2008
Firefox Hack - SiteHoppin Toolbar saves you 5 minutes of your Daily Web browsing time!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s a video demo of the new feature just added to the SiteHoppin Toolbar for Firefox that can save you 5 minutes or more of your daily web browsing time. Great for bloggers… via SiteHoppin browser, Consumer, Cool, firefox, Firefox, new feature, ... More
May 12, 2008
Safari Browser Plugin
Do you use Safari to surf the web? There’s a Safari Browser Plugin that can help you search faster called, inquisitor, recently acquired by Yahoo. Yahoo acquires Inquisitor, a Safari Browser Plug-in. Safari is the default browser on MACs but you can download it for PC too. I find that Safari is actually a pretty good browser, a lot better ... More
May 6, 2008
Use Cooliris’s PicLens Firefox Plugin to browse images, videos like an iPhone!
Cooliris’s PicLens brings you the web in a completely 3D format. You can go to your favorite sites like Flickr, Google image search, among the many major services you can use. You can even browse YouTube videos in 3D using their search function, which is nice. It’s like having an iPhone version of viewing the web on your computer. ... More
Firefox HACK - How to increase Firefox Cache!
My friend Deimos over at AhKong.Net posted an interesting post today about how to utilize the file cache of Firefox. By use of more cache, you will be able to browse the web faster, especially if you check out many of the same sites daily. You can read about his full DIY on Firefox Cache HOWTO here. browser, cache, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYour ... More
May 2, 2008
DIY Hack - How to make your plugins work in Firefox 3 Beta!
Well, if you are like me, an early adaptor, you probably are already using Firefox 3 Beta. As many of you know, a lot of your Firefox plugins do not work or is not compatible with the new FF3. Here’s a simple way to make it work: (Thanks to Lifehacker) 1. Type About:config in your FF3 Browser address bar. 2. Right click->New->Boolean ... More
April 22, 2008
Office Printing DIY - How to save time and money on printing and get your mail delivered faster!
Today, we will cover several ways that can help you to reduce cost of your printing, whether you are running a home business or a company with 1000 employees. Make sure to Preview your documents before printing: A lot of people might think this is something they do all the time but the truth is that most people waste a lot of paper printing out th ... More
April 14, 2008
DIY Proxy HACK - How to Proxy Firefox through SSH!
I know there are many ways to build a proxy on your web server. In college, they make you make a proxy server from scratch. Well, anyways, I site hopped onto one of these cool little howtos on how to proxy firefox through your SSH: PuTTY on local machine Remote host running OpenSSH sh -D 7070 username@host.com 1. Create a new PuTTY session Run ... More
March 16, 2008
YouTube Hack - How to watch YouTube videos faster with Firefox addons and more!
Here’s are some great ways to watch your YouTube videos even faster: (I’ve found the YouTube FireFox add-on most useful as I do like to listen to a lot of music on YouTube) Download SpeedBit Video Accelerator which makes videos from YouTube and many other video sites faster by reducing buffering problems. The URL Hacking: Add a ... More
January 18, 2008
HOWTO use Internet Explorer in Firefox and protect yourself from spyware!
Here’s a quick 2AM post on how to use Internet Explorer in Firefox as a tab. First, go to your Firewall application and deny Internet Explorer for incoming and outgoing network traffic. This will protect you against malicious IE hackers. Second, download and install this cool IE tab Firefox extension for your Firefox. Now, simply right cli ... More
November 22, 2007
CCleaner - Your Crap Cleaner
Check out the new Crap Cleaner, CCleaner. It may help you clean crap on your computer easily. CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history ... More
December 20, 2006
Quick Browser HACK - Google and Yahoo Bookmarklets for Firefox, IE, and Safari
Today, I was trying to bookmark some stuff on Google and Yahoo and noticed that there weren’t any bookmarklets for them that were available. They have toolbars but I rather have a simple button to click then do click, scroll, click… So I hacked one real quick. Now you can just click a button on your browser to save your favorite sites ... More
November 26, 2006
Forbes Video Interview With Digg CEO
View This Video on You Tube Cool video on interview with Digg CEO Jay Adelson, interesting that 70% of digg users use Firefox. Yes, switch to firefox and stop Windows monopoly. Getting back to the news, Digg supposedly gets about 20 million unique users in a month. Anyway, interesting how the internet is really changing the world these days. Bl ... More
October 2, 2006
Project Legals - One development system for all browser platforms
The thing I like Java over other languages it’s cross-platform abilities, it seems like Project “Legals” is something of similar nature except geared toward browsers… OpenLaszlo is an open source platform for creating zero-install web applications with the user interface capabilities of desktop client software. OpenLaszlo ... More
August 30, 2006
what is RSS?
Yes, if you were wondering what RSS was on blog websites… It’s basically a way you can read the blog or any other web info via a desktop client. For example, if you use Firefox, you can add RSS feeds on your browser, so you can skim your blog sites’ titles instead of looking at the whole article… Zedomax RSS: via wikipe ... More
