Find Color Schemes Easily in Firefox or Your Favorite Browser

Have you ever seen a picture with great colors and wanted a color scheme based on that image? Now you’re able to get those color schemes easily with the ColorSuckr extension for Firefox. ColorSuckr in Action when you’ve got the extension installed you are ready to go. There are no options or options to worry with…just click and go goodness. We decided to use ColorSuckr on a recent blog image and see what the results were....

November 30, 2009 · 1 min · 152 words · Richard Lopez

How To Run Chrome OS in VirtualBox

Recently a build of Googles Chrome OS was released for testing. Though its not ready for prime time, you might want to test it out in a virtual machine. Today we take a look at how to setup and run it in VirtualBox. Note: In this example we are using VirtualBox 3.0.12 running on a 32-bit version of Windows 7 Ultimate. Setup VirtualBox The first thing to do is tap on New to create a new machine in VirtualBox....

November 30, 2009 · 2 min · 227 words · Kathryn Moore

Print Only What You Want with Printliminator

Tired of watching your printer ink and paper getting wasted because of unnecessary or unwanted areas on a webpage? You will see the following “Printliminator Toolbar” once you go for the bookmarklet. We started with the “Print Stylize” option first. As you might see, the different elements of the webpage are outlined in red. To remove a particular section/area simply “Left Click” within the red border and it is instantly removed....

November 30, 2009 · 1 min · 134 words · Julie Jackson

A Quick Look at URL Shortening Services & Extensions

What is URL Shortening? URL Shortening is a process that translates long (and sometimes awkward) website addresses into short easy-to-manage URLs. Any newly created URLs are copied to the “Clipboard” and can be pasted from there. bit.ly & Snipurl The bitlyFF URL extension works a little differently than the two above. you could access it through the “Toolbar Button, Status Bar Icon, or Context Menu”. Using the “Toolbar Button or Status Bar Icon” will only produce “bit....

November 27, 2009 · 1 min · 79 words · Carolyn White

Make Your Tabs Stand Out Better in Firefox

Are you looking for something to make your tabs stand out better in Firefox? How about getting those tabs to better represent the individual websites using color from the websites themselves? OptionsTweak the color configs to modify how your tabs are colored in the Color Section. The Screenshot Section is an important part of the options to pay attention to. Make certain to set the Screenshot Width & Height to match your monitors screen resolution....

November 27, 2009 · 1 min · 110 words · Kristin Morton

How To Force Extension Compatibility with Firefox 3.6+

Thanks to my good buddy Daniel for pointing out the change in Firefox 3.6. Pay special attention to the Firefox version string, as we’ll need that later. Now we’ll be prompted to enter the preference name. So if you were testing out Firefox 3.8 Alpha, you’d use extensions.checkCompatibility.3.8a as the preference name. Yeah, that wasn’t the simplest thing. On the next dialog, just choose “false” and kill the dialog. You should now see the value in the list if you filter for it....

November 25, 2009 · 1 min · 119 words · Jessica Ramirez

Our Look at Microsoft Office 2010 Beta

It is designed to deliver unified access across your box, phone, and anywhere you have web access. The other interesting thing is that it comes in 32 and 64-bit version. As in this example where Im not installing some foreign language features. Word 2010Word offers a lot of new enhancements with new tools and document creation features. Access 2010For those who are database geeks, Access 2010 has several enhancements as well....

November 25, 2009 · 1 min · 144 words · Stephen Townsend

What Are the $INPLACE.~TR and $WINDOWS.~Q Folders and Can I Delete Them?

They are system protected, so should you really delete them? So What Are They? The good news is that you’ve got the option to definitely get rid of them. Why is this the easiest way instead of the delete key? Once you’re done, it’ll clean up the files. And now, those folders will be gone.

November 25, 2009 · 1 min · 55 words · Richard Byrd

Combine the Address Bar and Progress Bar Together in Firefox

You may also activate any of the three Address Bar Features if desired. For our example we chose a blue color… AfterYou can see a very noticeable difference after we reloaded the webpage. No Status Bar or Throbber required to know how shut the webpage is to finishing loading up.

November 24, 2009 · 1 min · 50 words · Kevin Norman

Device Doctor is a Completely Free Driver Update Scanner

Thankfully, rig Doctor is absolutely, completely free to use. Related:Do you oughta Use a Driver Cleaner When Updating Drivers? We will have to remove our recommendation. Let’s dive right in… On the download page, you’re prompted to download the driver installer and install it manually. Did we mention free? Before You Install Drivers! We simply cannot state this more strongly! In other cases, however, the driver was a zip file that needs to be installed manually....

November 24, 2009 · 1 min · 116 words · Jake Smith

Get a Capable Streamlined Text Editor with Jarte

Are you looking for a capable text editor without the bloat of the commercial apps? Jarte is a streamlined text editor with a customizable UI structure and well worth taking a good look at. Note: Jarte comes in Exe and Portable versions. Once the installation has finished and Jarte starts for the first time you will be presented with the EULA. After accepting the EULA this is what Jarte looks like....

November 23, 2009 · 1 min · 166 words · Brett Alexander

How To Delete a VHD in Windows 7

Remember when creating a VHD it’s using the space on the volume where you create it. Agree to the warning message that appears. You probably want to verify and head its advice and verify there is no data you need on it. However, the drive is not completely gone, you’ll need to go in and manually delete it. Now it’s gone and you have regained some hard drive space for whatever you need....

November 23, 2009 · 1 min · 73 words · David Robinson

Stupid Geek Tricks: Create a Shortcut to Quickly Edit Your Hosts File

And there we are. Loss of geek points for me.

November 23, 2009 · 1 min · 10 words · Raven Thomas