Tips

I stumbled across a new feature on Twitter today. It’s a feature that has been long overdue. A spam button! Now you can go to anybody’s profile page and click ‘Report username for spam’. Hopefully this will finally weed out the growing spam problem on Twitter.
You know, while we’re on the subject of Twitter, I [...]

I usually have trouble explaining my technical expertise during job interviews. It’s not that I don’t have the experience. It’s that I am usually too general. When asked what I do, I would answer with a “I installed and configured x” and leave it at that. After getting rejected many times, I started to learn [...]

After our experience with Gmail going down and leaving us email-less for hours, it might be a good idea to enable Gmail offline on your account. The feature will make local copies of the messages in your Gmail account so that you can access them when you don’t have Internet or when there is an [...]

BlackBerrys have a lot of settings hidden in the OS. Here are some of the most popular BlackBerry Tips for any user.

Switch the signal bars to decibels - If you want a more precise measurement of your wireless signal, just hold down the ALT button while typing N M L L. The meter on the [...]

Just like Flickr, you can use Google Images to find images that you can reuse for your projects. This is perfect for bloggers that would like to use an image to get their point across.
1. Go to Google Images.
2. Click on the Advanced Image Search link.
3. The second option from the bottom is Usage Rights. [...]

If you don’t like the Location Aware Browsing feature in Firefox, you can disable it using these steps:
1. Open Firefox.
2. Type about:config in the Address Bar and press Enter.
3. Double-click the geo.enabled entry. It will switch it to Disabled.

I was playing on a friend’s BlackBerry Curve, and spotted an SMS icon. “How’d you get that?” I asked. There was a setting that I sure didn’t know about. Messages > Options >General Options > SMS and Email Inboxes > Separate.

I work with a team of guys that have been into computers for years. Some know advanced programming, and others have spent time memorizing almost every Windows setting. However, there is one bit of knowledge that many of them seem be unaware of, the keystroke to minimize all Windows.
I recently had 3 people around me [...]

Spring has arrived, and that means a return of flies to your yard. I had a huge amount of flies all around my back yard. Whenever I sat down, they would land on me every 5 seconds. Over the winter, when the snow melts it leaves behind a lot of things that flies are attracted [...]

I found a cool hack for iTunes where you can enable half star ratings in iTunes. Now I can rate songs 1 and a half stars, 2 and a half stars, etc.
Mac:
Open terminal and type:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes allow-half-stars -bool TRUE
Windows:
Open the iTunesPrefs.xml file at %appdata%\Apple Computer\iTunes (type that path in the Run command box) and [...]