Adam Myers
Disabling Windows 7 taskbar preview windows for your web browser
Taskbar previews, the thumbnails of a running application that pop-up as your mouse over the application window in the task bar, aren’t new to Windows 7 – they were introduced in Vista actually – but their behavior have changed slightly. In Windows 7, task bar applications are grouped together if more than one iteration of [...]
Opening Explorer to the current working directory in the Command Prompt
Having grown up with DOS and Unix-based environments, I’m rather comfortable with the command line – to the point I often find it much faster to accomplish many tasks in than a traditional graphical interface. No matter my allegiance to the command line, I’m not stubborn enough to remain committed to the method when something [...]
How to access members-only website content for free
Information wants to be free and one of the most horrendous atrocities on the Internet are sites that restrict their content members-only. Heavy surfers have quite likely come across a search result, clicked the link to visit the website, only to be hit face-first with some variance of denial. At best, you are able to [...]
Loosely secure your Thunderbird profile with a password
One of the advantages of keeping your email in the cloud – outside of the obvious ability of accessibility basically anywhere you have access to a computer – is the notion of security and privacy. Accessing your Gmail requires a username and password, that’s pretty obvious. But what if you have your Gmail, or any [...]
Making remote troubleshooting easier with Support Details
Those of us who have had to support friends or family members with their computing problems from afar can sympathize with one another. It’s generally a painful and frustrating experience. To support them, we rely on them to relay accurately what is going on when they do situation x or click doo-hickey y. At the [...]
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