Tag Archive | "functionality"
How To Get Back The Classic WinXP Alt-Tab in Windows 7
If you have migrated to Windows 7 from Windows XP, you’ll realise that a lot has changed, including the alt-tab functionality. In the default Windows 7 behaviour, alt-tab shows thumbnails, but looks messy and cluttered, not to mention slow. Thankfully, you can still get back the Windows XP alt-tab functionality. Just follow these steps: Go [...]
Continue reading...How To Find Out What’s Locking Files or Folders in Mac
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
One of the first problems that I came across the Mac was the “File in use” error that occurred whenever I tried to unmount a hard drive, or unmount a USB thumb drive. It was annoying because I didn’t know how to find the source. In Windows, I would face the same problem too, but [...]
Continue reading...How To Automatically Delete Forwarded Mails in CPanel
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
CPanel’s a great software that’s been powering the web hosting industry for years. It has powerful functionality and a straightforward Graphical User Interface (GUI) that can allow a beginner to easily manage a web hosting account. However, some functionality can be tricky, such as the default forwarding function. If you create an email forwarder in [...]
Continue reading...How To Rotate Images or Pictures On Mac OSX
Friday, June 18, 2010
I was trying to rotate images on the Mac, and was getting annoyed at the apparent lack of functionality to do so. In Windows, you could rotate images in Explorer and in Windows Preview after you’ve opened up the file. On Mac OSX, the Preview app doesn’t come with the “rotate” buttons visible by default. [...]
Continue reading...How To Select Columns of Text in Your Browser (FireFox)
Sunday, April 11, 2010
This is a neat trick for copying columns of text from a table into some other application. This is particularly useful when you don’t need the whole table of information, and just want one column or several columns (e.g. just the usernames from a list of members). I haven’t tried it on other browsers, but [...]
Continue reading...How To Use Spaces Effectively With Multiple Monitors On The Mac
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Many people swear by Spaces, a feature on the Mac that allows you to have multiple desktops, and have applications “assigned” to each desktop. I think it’s a fantastic idea too, but using it together with multiple monitors just creates a bad experience. The current problem with it now, in my opinion, is that Spaces [...]
Continue reading...Tweeting with TweetDeck and HootSuite?
Saturday, January 23, 2010
I’ve recently gotten more active with tweeting, and I’m trying out twitter clients such as TweetDeck and HootSuite. I think they’re great ideas, and what they’re doing currently is great. What I found was that the two applications were pretty similar. TweetDeck is a Rich Internet Application built on Adobe AIR, which allows it to [...]
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Friday, November 5, 2010
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