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Fat-free home made frozen yogurt how-to
Happen to live quite a few miles (or quite a few thousand miles) away from the nearest froyo place and don’t have an easy way to get your hands on some frozen yogurt? Or perhaps you realized the frozen yogurt you get at the various PinkBerry, Yogurtland (my favorite btw), RedMango, YogoFactory, and the other […]
Get Toodledo in Thunderbird – no add-on needed
Fastest way to get some sort of integration between Toodledo and Thunderbird to handle your tasks and emails within the same app: 1- Bring up the Thunderbird error console 2- Copy the code below and paste it in the “Code” textbox of the error console: Components.classes[‘@mozilla.org/appshell/window-mediator;1’].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIWindowMediator).getMostRecentWindow(“mail:3pane”).document.getElementById(“tabmail”).openTab(“contentTab”, {contentPage: “http://www.toodledo.com/views/folder.php”}); Press “Evaluate” Done — a new tab […]
How to send email in the background with Thunderbird
An “hidden” feature in Thunderbird, makes the email client queue the message and send it in the background, one of the neat Outlook functionalities I’ve been missing since I switched to Thunderbird years ago. The “send in background” capability is not exposed in the preferences (at least as of TB 3.1.1) — to enable the […]
Firefox about:config tweaks to help reduce page load time
Here’s a quick rundown of a few Firefox settings which I found rather effective in sensibly reducing page load time. In order to access the parameters below you’ll have to type about:config in your browser’s address bar. Once you get to the list the fastest way to find them is to narrow down the results […]
Need a spinning “loading” graphic? DYI at preloaders.net
Impressive number of selections and customization options. Pick shape, colors, transparency, animation speed and size, press Generate and you’re good to go. Visit preloaders.net
My favorite android apps as of today
I was asked which were my favorite android apps, and since a picture is worth 1,000 words, here’s the rundown of what I have installed on my android phone (an android 1.6 powered Google ION — aka HTC Magic). Some of these are tryouts left around, and some I can’t really say are among my […]
Win XP / 2003 File Explorer: how to have the folder tree show by default
Tired of clicking on the “Folders†button to see the folder tree every time you open Windows Explorer? Here are a few simple steps to have the folder tree always show up in windows explore (Win XP / Windows Server 2003): Click Start > Control Panel > Folder Options Click the File Types tab Scroll […]
A few quick tests with the new toy [Canon SD990]
Earlier today got around taking a short walk to shoot a couple of pictures with the latest tech toy — a Canon SD990 IS digital camera. Since I love Canon cameras I couldn’t resist “upgrading” my almost one year “old” SD950 to the latest and greatest super compact from Canon. Probably the first (and only) […]
Skype 4.1: how to disable quotes during copy-paste ops
Don’t like getting the text wrapped up in quotes when copy-pasting portion of a conversation in the Skype im box? Here’s how to disable this behaviour, and have Skype copy-paste work as it used to prior to version 4. In the main skype window, visit Menu Tools -> Options -> IM & SMS Press the […]
Couple of handy scripts to take away the pain of downloading App Store sales stats
If you are an iPhone developer you probably know all about the fun of having to download pretty much every day the previous’ day sales report from iTunesConnect, since after a week it’s gone. Started to look around for an automated tool and found some great pointer over at just2me.com — since I wanted to […]
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