Windows
The Extensions Mirror
So many applications these days are just plain bland and unable to be expanded. Most software companies like to keep a tight leash on what they release to the world, and this death grip can prevent intelligent programmers from using their talents to liven up an application. Firefox isn’t one of the offenders. If you’ve [...]
Customize Icons For Your Internet Explorer Favorites
One of the toolbars included in Internet Explorer is called Links. When this toolbar is visible, you can quickly access various web pages. You can click the Links button and it lists all the links to your favorite web sites. However, you will probably also notice that each link has an icon beside and most [...]
Prevent Internet Explorer From Opening In A Small Window
A problem that many users encounter is that Internet Explorer continuously opens in a small window, one that looks as though it has been resized. This is due to the fact that Internet Explorer will remember the last window size when it is closed. You can easily return to a full screen again using the [...]
From PowerPoint To Video
Converting PowerPoint presentations to video file formats such as: .AVI, .MOV, and .WMV could be very helpful whenever you need to show your presentations without PowerPoint, or via a TV screen. Most PowerPoint presentations have transitions and animations. To maintain such animations on the video, you will have to use a product to grab the [...]
A Longer Than 259 Character Address Is Truncated
When you drag a long address from the Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 address bar to a new location, the address is truncated to 259 characters in the new location. This issue occurs when the address contains 260 or more characters.
Too Much, Too Soon!
It’s been widely reported today that Hotmail is in the midst of being enhanced and upgraded. Sorry to say, the report is, like the reported death of Mark Twain, ‘a little premature.’ As Deep Byte, my source at Microsoft put it, “the detail these guys are all missing is that we rolled users onto a [...]
ApartmentRatings.com
Jeremy Bencken of ApartmentRatings.com writes: We recently launched a mashup between ApartmentRatings.com and Google Maps, and we feel it achieves a new level in terms of quantity of integrated information and sophistication. ApartmentRatings.com brings one of the largest datasets to-date to Google Maps. Maps are available for 4,165 cities nationwide and display over 49,000 apartments, [...]
"STOP 0x000000D1" Error Message When Starting Or Shutting Down
When you start or shut down a Microsoft Windows XP-based computer or a Microsoft Windows Server 2003-based computer, you may occasionally receive a Stop error message that is similar to the following: A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer…
Xbox The Spot
After a few rounds of getting my ass handed to me in Halo 2 with friends the other day, I’m starting to look forward to getting the Xbox 360. Not because I enjoy losing, mind you. The next-gen Xbox aims to be a great gaming machine with visuals that are out of this world. I [...]
Design Your Own Desktop Menu With RightClick
RightClick is a program that enables users to design their own right-click desktop menu. Add program short-cuts, folders, disk space monitors, RSS readers, widgets and virtually anything you can imagine to it. Get it on its own or as part of Object Desktop.
