I’ve watched Suze Orman’s show on CNBC for the past year hoping what she preaches will rub off on me and help me to manage my finances better. A goal that I am far from. Anyway she constantly asks her callers if they know their FICO score. She never asks about any other type of […]
Many people still don’t know that you can get a totally free credit report. However, there is only one place that you should trust to get this done online. There are companies out there that pose as the official place to get a free credit report. Many of them though do not offer the same […]
Lately I’ve been skeptical about Firefox. It seems lately they are bombarding us with updates, and with each one comes new problems. I appreciate them being on top of things, but the updates have caused many problems with my add-ons. It also seems that Firefox crashes about as many times as Netscape 6 used to, […]
Is your Windows system beeping at you? You can disable the beeping sound that usually comes from an internal speaker with these steps.
1. Hold down the Windows key while pressing R and type regedit.
2. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
then Control Panel
then click on Sound
3. On the right side, double-click on the Beep value […]
So this weekend, I discovered that because I missed a single payment, all of my credit cards shot my interest rate on my existing balance to 33%. I immediately called the credit card companies. I got the usual runaround. “We’ll let you know in a few days.” When I finally get my snail mail telling […]
Create an icon that will lock your screen in Windows XP and Vista.
1. Right-click an blank area on your desktop.
2. Select New >Shortcut
3. Type ‘rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation’ for the Location.
Give the shortcut a name. Now you can just double-click the icon whenever you want to lock your screen. I like to place mine in the Quick […]
Were you aware that many of the modern cell phones today are capable of tracking your every move? The technology used is called triangulation where cell phone companies can compile data about your whereabouts even when you are not on a call by using 3 cellular phone towers to measure the distance your cell phone […]
This is probably the simplest method for creating an image with rounded corners. It can be done using the free image editor Paint.NET. There is also a step-by-step article here if you prefer not to watch the video.
I’m glad that Apple decided to add a feature Internet Explorer for Windows users have had for a long time to Safari 3 for Leopard. You can now right-click/control-click any image and select Use Image as Desktop Picture.
Safari stores the image in a folder at username/Library/Safari.
I see a few webmasters have chosen to block Google from having the pages of their web sites added to the Google cache. Some people just don’t like their stuff being stored on another server. They use the following tag in the HEAD section of their pages to remove their pages:
<META NAME=”GOOGLEBOT” CONTENT=”NOARCHIVE”>
I used to […]
