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AllToTray
Jan 26th
Ever been surfing the web, checking your emails, talking on MSN and trying to use Photoshop at the same time? Well, I’m sure you know how annoying it is having such a cluttered taskbar, and now theres an answer to your problems!
AllToTray allows you to minimise pretty much anything to your systemtray only, so it’s out of the way till you need it. This also helps if you have a program like Adobe Photoshop (which takes forever to load!) open, and know you’ll want to use it again, but don’t want to close it. You can just minimise it to the More >
Mozilla Firefox, without the mouse.
Jan 23rd
Learning to use Firefox keyboard shortcuts to reduce your trips to the mouse can lead to a much more fulfilling web browsing experience, especially at those times that your mouse just isn’t doing the trick.
Okay, you got me. I have, on occasion (read: often), neglected to charge my wireless mouse for long enough that, when it’s time to get posting, I find myself totally mouse-less.
Now you’re thinking, “What, just because this wire-hating jerk can’t remember to put their mouse on the charger every now and then, I’m supposed to get all excited about the idea of using Firefox without a More >
Windows Live! Mail without an invite
Dec 31st
You can get a Windows Live Mail! account for free. It’s a small exploit that was discovered by someone and it really works. Alright, let’s start!
1) Open up Internet Explorer. MSN likes Internet Explorer, and hates Firefox. 2) For this to work, you must be signed out of MSN. Go to the MSN Homepage, and double check you are signed out. 3) Copy this URL to Internet Explorer: Right Click On Here -> Copy 4) You should be redirected to another URL (Another URL to login). Sign in. 5) You should see the regular hotmail once signed in. 6) Once you More >
Google Paying for Firefox Installs
Nov 6th
Cool Google hack with Digital Cameras
Nov 5th
Here’s a fun thing to play around with, if you’re bored at 3am. Most Sony digital cameras start saving photos with the following name “DSC00001.JPG” and a lot of people take these photos and upload them to the web, where the all-knowing, all-seeing Google later catalogs all of them. So by clicking this link you can see the first photo taken by someone with their new camera or newly formatted card for some cameras, this is what it looks like when thousands of Sony cameras lose their photo-virginity.
Here’s some filenames for various other cameras:
IMG_0001.JPG is the equivalent for Canon cameras. More >