How to use FTP from within Firefox
Monday, October 15th, 2007This tutorial will guide you in setting up and using FireFTP - a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox.
Archive for October, 2007
This tutorial will guide you in setting up and using FireFTP - a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox.
How to open multiple sites in separate tabs each time you start Firefox
Monday, October 15th, 2007The following brief tutorial will show you how to open multiple web sites, each in their own tab, every time you launch Firefox.
Blog Action Day
Monday, October 15th, 2007Though it's not one of the officially supported Blog Action Day Charities, today I will donate all profits from this and my other web sites to NORML for their efforts in legalizing the growing of Hemp. More info can be found here, here and here.
How to launch programs in OS X using mouse gestures
Saturday, October 13th, 2007Using a neat little program called Sapiens, you can quickly launch any program on your Mac without using your keyboard. This brief overview will guide you through setting up and using Sapiens.
How to add multiple Toolbars to Windows
Friday, October 12th, 2007This brief tutorial will guide you in adding additional Toolbars to Windows. They can run horizontally (like the main Taskbar across the bottom) or vertically on either side of your desktop.
Handago Free App Friday
Thursday, October 11th, 2007Handango is giving away one (1) high quality, fully-functioning mobile software application for FREE on Fridays. The free app is available from 12 a.m. to 12 p.m. CST on Friday only. Just visit www.handango.com/FreeAppFriday for details. You do have to complete a short survey, but it's not too painful. Handango ...
How to play MAME ROMs (games) in OS X
Thursday, October 11th, 2007Today I stumbled across an old CD I have full of MAME ROMs. I thought I'd see if you could play them in OS X, and sure enough it's actually quite straight forward. This brief tutorial will guide you in playing MAME games in OS X.
Windows Mobile 6 upgrade available for Rogers HTC S621 owners
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Thanks very much to Simplehelp reader Albert Karp for letting me know that Rogers has recently (last week?) provided a free upgrade from Windows Mobile 5 to Windows Mobile 6 via www.rogers.com/s621upgrade. The upgrade is only for the HTC S621. It would have been nice to hear about this from ...
Goodbye Text Link Ads
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007With all the recent talk over buying and selling of text link ads causing a negative effect on your Google PageRank, I've decided to disable the text-link-ads.com WordPress Plugin (ie. stop selling text-link-ads). That's about $100/mo that I'm kissing goodbye just to avoid the possibility that Google might punish me. ...
Fantastic new Canadian service: Live Vote
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007John Boxall and Igor Faletski of Handi Mobility (a local British Columbia company) are about to release Live Vote - a free SMS voting system similar to the one used in "American Idol". Live Vote was recently demonstrated at DemoCampVancouver, and was well received. I requested a beta invite a ...
How to securely store files in Windows
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007This tutorial will guide you through setting up TrueCrypt, an easy to use and open-source/free encryption utility that allows you to store files in a secure 'volume' on your hard drive.
How to add your Alarm information to your Windows Mobile home screen
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007This brief tutorial will guide you through adding your Alarm info directly on to your Windows Mobile home screen.
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving
Monday, October 8th, 2007To all my Canadian friends - Happy Thanksgiving! I'll return to my regular schedule of semi-regular posts tomorrow, 'cause today is a holiday :)
How to automatically sign in to Ubuntu
Thursday, October 4th, 2007If you're the only person who uses your Ubuntu-based PC and don't want to sign in each time you turn on your computer, you can enable automatic login via the steps found in this brief tutorial.
How to save and reuse your clipboard history in OS X
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007PTHPasteboard, a free version of "PTHPasteboard PRO", watches you while you work and keeps a copy of any items that you have copied to your 'pasteboard'. Then you can quickly retrieve items from your pasteboard to reuse.
