Consider updating your privacy settings for Facebook Places. Here’s an excellent blog post at Lifehacker to step you through it. It’s slightly more complicated than I expected. While the post shows how to turn the feature off, you can select other more restrictive or open options, as well. The instructions miss pointing out where the [...]
This probably isn’t happening to you, but it happened to me. Most people wouldn’t notice, but hey, I’m anal. My right click menus (aka, context menus) and pull-down menus were all aligning to the left of the mouse cursor instead of the default right side. To cure this, open REGEDIT and navigate to the following [...]
I recently got a Kodak Theatre HD Player from Woot! Fifty clams for a (sort of) media player extender seemed like a great idea. It arrived, and I tried to set it up on my main computer. Frustration ensued. After a lot of search engine research, I got nowhere. A few days later it dawned [...]
This is a solution for smartphone screen protectors that are incorporated into a protective case. For me, this is the OtterBox Defender Case for iPhone 3G S. I use this top-notch case because it really protects the device from drops and from exposure to water (but it’s not waterproof!). The case includes a screen protector. [...]
You can get the full thumbnails in Firefox in Windows 7 just like Internet Explorer 8. Navigate to about:config. If prompted, confirm that you know what you’re doing. In the filter text field type browser.taskbar.previews.enable. Double click the entry that appears in the list. The value should change from false to true. Hover your mouse [...]
Are you experiencing some unusual behavior in the Firefox Tools drop-down menu? I have experienced the entries in that drop-down menu (and only that one) are empty and weirdly scrollable for some reason, and not all the entries are available. If I close and re-open the Tools drop-down menu, the entries might be there when [...]
I have been running Windows 7 RTM, and I really like it. Everything works great, except I’m experiencing flakiness with my Zune 30 music player. About half the time it syncs just fine, the other half it halts and fouls all my USB ports save the keyboard and mouse (someone explain that to me, please). [...]
I started getting weird behavior from my Zune recently. I boot up the PC, connect the Zune, and things worked … but very slowly. If I disconnected and reconnected, the Zune would charge, but it wouldn’t be recognized by the Zune software. Also, other USB devices would get flakey. After a lot of research (using [...]
Just a quick blurb to say that the Live Upload add-in for Windows Live Photo Gallery makes uploading pictures to Facebook an absolute cinch. Look for it in the Gallery view. In the Picture view, it’s not available. 0 | Like This Post
With the introduction of Vista, Windows has had a robust system-wide search capability built right into the operating system. Ever wondered if you could narrow down the list of found items? You can. Windows supports Advanced Query Syntax (AQS) that offers numrous ways to pare down a found items list by date, author, size, attachments, [...]
