Best Video Player for Windows
What is the best video player for Windows? I have tried several video player applications in the quest to find the best one, and although I haven’t tried them all, there is 1 in particular that I feel stand above…
How Not To Send Shipment Tracking Numbers
When selling physical goods online, it is always a good idea to send customers shipment tracking numbers as soon as possible. In an order I recently placed at a retailer I won’t name, a funny thing happened where I received…
Gmail Makes Tracking Shipments Easier with Button in Inbox
When you receive an email in Gmail with a package tracking link, as is often the case when getting a shipment notification for an online order, the tracking number is detected (assuming a well-known service such as UPS or FedEx…
Microsoft’s Windows 8 Training Camp Ads Are Hilarious
Microsoft has been getting more and more creative with advertising lately, and these Windows 8 Training Camp ads released a few weeks ago are perhaps some of the funniest ever. Be sure to watch to the end of each one…
4 Years Later: Can Chrome Replace Firefox Now?
Almost 4 years ago, I wrote a post titled 5 Reasons Why Chrome Can’t Replace Firefox (Yet). Nowadays, Chrome has matured significantly and, depending on whose data you trust, was competitive with Firefox in market share last year, but has…
Plot Functions Easily With Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 App Function Plotter
If you’ve got some math functions that need plotting, you can do it pretty easily with Function Plotter, available as both a Windows 8 app and Windows Phone 8 app. Besides looking great, the app also gives you useful at-a-glance…
Google Chrome Finally Gets Bookmark Synchronization
I was playing around with Google Chrome 4 (the dev channel release) to see if anything had changed since I last tried it. A quick peek at their release blog revealed a post on Aug 17 that bookmark synchronization is…
Fix Outlook 2007’s Broken HTML E-mail Rendering in Outlook 2010
Before you wonder how you can fix a problem of a product in another product that isn’t even out yet, let’s see what the hubbub is about. In Microsoft’s loved and hated Outlook program, the Internet Explorer engine was used…
How to Enable GPU Scaling Options in AMD Catalyst
If you have an AMD/ATi graphics card, you might have noticed that the GPU Scaling options portion of the control panel seems to be grayed out (aka. disabled), if you can even find it hidden deep in the monitor attributes…
Digsby IM Turns Bad with Malware
Oh, how quickly public perception can shift. Digsby, who won 4 out of 5 nominations (out of 6 total categories) in About.com’s 2008 user-voted IM client awards including Developers of the Year, has been one of the much-loved IM clients.…
How to Get Free Digital TV (DTV & HDTV)
I haven’t subscribed to cable television in… well, ever. I don’t watch much TV. When I do, it’s usually for a specific show or online on sites like Hulu. If you don’t need all the hundreds of various channels that…
Windows 7 RTM (Final) Now Available on MSDN, Technet
Yesterday, Microsoft made Windows 7 RTM (Final) available to Technet and MSDN subscribers. Download speed reports have varied and there was a period of time when the Ultimate and Enterprise versions could not be downloaded even though all the other…
How to Backup Your Data with jFileSync
Backing up data is something everyone knows should be done, but often don’t due to laziness. That is, until disaster strikes and important data is lost. Those who have experienced such a scenario quickly learn to make regular backups to…
Scare Your Co-Workers with iPhone Air Raid Siren Ringtone
The other day, I was minding my own business when I heard what seemed to be a miniature fire alarm. I thought something was odd and went to check it out since the noise was softer than I thought it…
Where to Buy LCD Monitors with 0 Dead Pixels
Buying an LCD monitor these days is both easier and harder than ever before with much lower prices and wider selection. One thing that remains a mystery is how dead pixels are widely accepted as the norm by most manufacturer…
Firefox Downloaded Over 1 Billion Times
Mozilla’s Firefox, the world’s favorite alternative browser, has surpassed the 1 billion download mark. That’s over 1,000,000,000 times! To commemorate this achievements, Mozilla is launching a new web site called One Billion Plus You. The download count is a cumulative…
Using WP Super Cache with WordPress.com Stats
WP Super Cache and WordPress.com Stats are two very useful WordPress plugins. WP Super Cache provides static and dynamic cache functionality to reduce the load on your blog’s server, allowing larger amounts of traffic to visit without slowing the site…
Prevent Firefox from Quitting When Closing Last Tab
Firefox 3.5 introduced a change in the way closing the last tab of a browser window is handled. Instead of turning into a blank tab, the window closes as well, much like it does in Google Chrome. To return to…
Building a Silent Yet Powerful PC: mATX Core i7 Edition
When building a computer, one often has to compromise on one of the three conflicting factors of power, noise, and price. Powerful machines are usually noisy due to the high heat output, and therefore required cooling. Advanced cooling solutions with…
Disable Zip Folders in Windows 7, Vista, XP
Zip Folders (or Compressed Folders) is a feature in Windows Explorer that makes ZIP archives act like folders for easy retrieval of contents. However, this behavior is rather annoying for many, including me, so one of the first things I…