Archive for May, 2006

Remove ads in Firefox

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

I have a LiveJournal.com account and recently upgraded to their “sponsored” status from their free version. Since I did that they have added ads to my friends pages and on my site as well. I wanted to find a way to train my browser to remove these elements and not have them be displayed on [...]

 
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Disable MySpace CSS

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

Have you ever had a friend show you their MySpace page and you had a hard time reading the page? Myspace has become the new Geocities when it comes to bad webdesign. Luckly theres a cure to the MySpace bad design woes.
This tutorial will show you how to use a free Firefox Extension to disable [...]

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Get with the *Beta* Program

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

Microsoft is offering the “Common Folk” a chance to try out the new Microsoft Office 2007. I’ll end up installing this on a test machine here at work so I can get to learn the new functions of the software. If you have a spare computer, or dont mind you email/word docs/excel docs exploding in [...]

Mac OS X Startup key sequences

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

I do not own a Mac (yet) but I do administrate some at work and have used this list a number of times. Macs dont have a “bios” per se but they do have keyboard shortcuts that can kick off various functions during boot. I’ve used the “T” one to boot from an ipod once [...]

Maker Faire

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

So you missed the Maker Faire? What… you didn’t know there was a Maker Faire?
Makezine.com is the website for the MAKE magazine which held a fair this last April 22-23 at the San Mateo Fairgrounds in California. From what the website claims over 20,000 “Makers” and “Crafters” attended this event which is a lot of [...]

Parsed.org

Saturday, May 6th, 2006

I’ve been monitoring Parsed.org via RSS for a while now and I wanted to share this great resource with you all. I’m more of a lurker on Parsed I think I may have submitted a few items. The tips and tricks I have found on there have saved me a few extra keystrokes and some [...]

How To: Quickly upload a screenshot to your website.

Saturday, May 6th, 2006

This tutorial explains how to take a screenshot using HardCopyPro and then use the “send to” command in windows to send the screen capture image to WinSCP for transfer to your website. Both myself and Steven Klassen (of Xinu.org and GeekFit.com fame) use this method daily.
I assume you have a website, that your webserver supports [...]

 
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Handy programs to put on a USB stick.

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

USB Drives (also known as: USBStick, Thumb Drive, USBCard, etc) have become more and more popular due to most computers now being sold without disk drives. With their new popularity comes cool stuff you can do with them; one of which is run applications from any computer that has an open usb port. Below is [...]

Tutorial: Flickr Uploadr

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

Flickr.com if you haven’t heard of it is a website that provides its users with a place to upload and organize their digital images. Flickr created this app called Uploadr which allows its users to upload their images in batch without having to go to the flickr website. My tutoral explains how to upload using [...]

 
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