Archive for the 'Tech Tips/Quick Fix' Category


Build Flash online with Sprout

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Sprout is a browser-based tool where you could build Flash online. It has pre-built templates, and enables easy asset management. It is easy to use because of it’s drag-and-drop interface. The most interesting part about Sprout is its components. With Sprout, you could add your RSS feeds by simply dragging the RSS Feed control to [...]

Rediscovering the Thunder in Thunderbird

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Eons ago when I had to wake up at exactly 6am every weekday just so I won’t be late for work, I start every day by opening Mozilla’s Thunderbird email client, which manages three separate e-mail accounts, two of them international and the other intra-company.  I remember how it worked beautifully for us.   Lag times were almost [...]

Fixing Firefox’s Voracious Appetite for Memory

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

Ok, so its not really a fix… more like a work around. But so far this seems to have worked to help throttle back the Firefox browser’s design to cache pages in memory:

Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro Battery Issues

Friday, May 4th, 2007

If you bought a MacBook or a MacBook Pro between February 2006 and April 2007 (like me), watch your battery’s performance more closely.
Apple has recently discovered that some batteries used in its MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks purchased between those dates may have battery performance issues. Apple offers a software update that is designed to [...]

Cool Iris for Firefox, Safari, IE, and Flock

Friday, May 4th, 2007

Snap has come up with different Snap Shots like PreviewShot (screenshot of a URL), WikiShot (text summary of a Wikipedia entry), MovieShot (pictures, bios, and recent projects from IMDB pages), StockShot (stock market information), VideoShot (incorporate videos from video sharing websites), PhotoShot (online album in a shot), ProductShot (Amazon listing of a product) and AudioShot [...]

How do you blog?

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Do you spend too much time on searching for your articles to be written on your blog? How much time you spend in searching the web and end up in writing less than 100 words post. Below are the tools and site I use to have information from the web.
Google Alert
First thing you have to [...]

Killer Crocs and Escalators

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Escalators can be very dangerous machines. Apparently they can eat up appendages and even crocs too! No not the reptilian kind, but the shoe.
I’ve been meaning to buy Crocs for my kids, but now I’m not so sure anymore after reading horror stories about escalators gobbling up these lightweight rubber thingies, like this account by [...]

Hacking for SmartBro

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

I’ve been complaining for a few weeks now that my Smart Bro connection has been crappy whenever it rains, so I called up tech support and asked for a reposition of my antenna.

DIY Keyboard Repair

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

Great article here that shows you how you can fix your damaged keyboard connections due to worn out pads or the occasional spilled **insert your favorite beverage here**, with nothing but superglue and your garden variety tin foil found in almost any kitchen.

Anapod: iTunes alternative

Monday, January 15th, 2007

Anapod is a cool replacement for iTunes in managing your iPod. It supports all iPod models available in the market and even iPod models that are already out of production. For Windows OS users, it runs on Windows 98 SE, ME, 2000, XP and Vista. What’s best about Anapod is that you can transfer music [...]

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