Archive for January, 2010
Restore the old ‘new tab’ behavior in Firefox 3.6
Today Mozilla released version 3.6 of their popular Firefox browser, a minor update from their last major release – 3.5. From the release notes, here are a few of the new features that are relevant to the end user’s experience: Support for a new type of theme called Personas, which allow users to change Firefox’s [...]
Still love Google while maintaining your privacy
Who knows more about the citizens in their own country, Kim Jong-Il or Google? That’s the question the site GoogleSharing asks it’s visitors. Whether we realize it, or even want to admit it, Google is prevalent all across the Internet and as such has the ability to track users whether we are logged into a [...]
Easily change your MAC address in Windows
A MAC address is a series of letters and numbers that identifies your network card on the network, either local or across the Internet. The MAC address is a means to uniquely identify your computer on the network in question, not unlike the IP address – something that is more commonly known and understood. Whereas [...]
Measure productivity by tracking the distance of your mousing
How often do you find yourself daydreaming throughout your work day wondering just how far your mouse has traveled? Rhetorical question I realize but suffice to say, probably never! It’s an admittedly silly metric but perhaps that’s what makes it so interesting. Additionally, it makes for an interesting discussion as it relates to measuring ones [...]
Preserving the state of your running apps after a reboot
You are probably aware that the second Tuesday of every month is referred to as Patch Tuesday. Patch Tuesday is the day Microsoft pushes out the monthly security fixes through their Windows Update service. Patch Tuesday is also likely the day you see the tray icon notifying you that it’s time to reboot Windows in [...]
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