If you are like me who likes to print long web pages and blog entries for offline reading, then you certainly have wondered how could you prevent the printing of the webpage’s URL on every page. It’s so irritating to see the URL at the top/bottom of every page… it’s a waste of precious ink […]
Category Archives: Tips and Tricks
A plain English explanation of what are blogs
If you’ve been surfing the web for a few hours, you’ve most likely heard of “blogs” or weblogs. But, what are blogs? A blog is a diary or journal on the Internet where the writer or more known as the “blogger” will write his/her views on a wide variety of subjects such as politics, news, […]
How to download and convert videos from FLV to MP4
Today, I’m going to show you how to download videos from non-Youtube sources. But first, you’re going to need the following software: Orbit Downloader– Orbit Downloader is similar to Free Studio below except that it only saves the videos in FLV (flash video) format. Free Studio – One of my favorite Freeware around. It can […]
Frostwire vs Limewire
Months ago, the original creators of Limewire, a popular bit torrent downloader, left and formed Frostwire. So, I decided to run a test to see which one is far more superior to the other. The tests in this little experiment consists of loadtime, looks, search results, download speed and other extra features.. But, enough talking. […]
Firefox 101: A practical guide
Mozilla’s latest version of their ever so popular browser, Firefox 3, has just be launched a couple of days ago. The D-day, which was the 17th of June, was the official release date of Firefox 3. You must’ve heard about the Firefox Pledge? If not, you can check out more about this and for those […]
Best Online Office Suites quick reviews
The concept has been around for decades now, in fact ever since the very birth of the Internet itself. One day online web services would take over from OS-bound conventional desktop software and we would have access to all our data from anywhere and at anytime. As of yet no application has successfully bridged the […]
How to integrate WordPress into an existing site
WordPress is a very powerful content management system, which is specifically designed as a blogging platform. You can use WordPress as what it’s designed for, a blog, or customize it into a full fledge CMS website with the help of nothing but freely available plugins. However what’s more common is perhaps you are installing WordPress […]
Show live video on your website
How do you broadcast live streaming video on your own website, such as live video from your webcam? The answer is very simple, make use of Ustream.tv. Ustream.tv lets anyone with a webcam or a similar video capturing gear and some guts to put together a live video on the web. The video can be […]
Quickly eject USB devices
USB devices are really common these days, especially pendrives because they are much easier to use than the bulky DVDs, CDs or even the now obsolete Floppy Disks. Furthermore, pendrives are very cheap nowadays and the price is still dropping! One 8GB pendrive now should cost less than MYR10. But, the problem is that while […]
How to set a Password for the Guest account in Windows XP
I have a small Workgroup network in my office, and the benefit of having a network like this is that you can transfer and share files between the computers easily without the need to use medias such as a pendrive. These computers are hooked up through a simple modem router which costs less than RM250 […]