Yahoo! Messenger for Vista Finally Released (Beta)

It’s been nearly a year since the new Yahoo! The new client is definitely beautiful, although not necessarily useful or especially functional. You’ll notice that some of the items have keyboard shortcuts…

December 6, 2007 · 1 min · 32 words · Katie Martinez MD

Bookmarklet Fun: Check Google Analytics for Today [update]

Sorry for the trouble! With a small modification, you’re able to use the same bookmarklet for your own use. Find the long number after “?id=” and save it somewhere.

December 5, 2007 · 1 min · 29 words · Patricia Bond

Protecting Your WordPress Admin Panel From Hackers With .htaccess

This is by no means a complete list, but you should look into them anyway. you could find the full path by using the pwd command from the shell prompt. Next you’ll need to use the htpasswd command line utility to create the password file. This will create a file with contents similar to the following: myusername:aJztXHCknKJ3. At this point you should be prompted for a password when you navigate to your WordPress administration panel....

December 5, 2007 · 1 min · 92 words · Kim Vargas MD

Enable Partial Match AutoComplete in the Firefox Address Bar

Usually you’d end up searching through your surfing app history or just end up Googling for it again. So how do we power up the address bar search functionality to make this simpler? Even once you do that you still have to restart Firefox before the address bar will stop returning results.

December 3, 2007 · 1 min · 52 words · Carlos Hayes

Setting up Gmail IMAP Support for Windows Vista Mail

Open Windows Mail and choose Tools \ Accounts from the menu and then hit the Add button. You’ll obviously want to select E-mail account and move to the next screen… slide in your name. slide in your email address, using your Gmail email address here. You’ll note that mine is not @gmail.com because I’m using Gmail hosted for your domain. On the next screen enter in your Gmail email address and your password....

November 30, 2007 · 1 min · 163 words · Jenny Liu

Setting up Gmail IMAP Support in Thunderbird (1.5 or 2.x)

Open up Thunderbird and go to Tools \ Accounts parameters and choose the Add Account button. In the resulting wizard choose Email account. Enter in your Name and your Gmail email address. Enter in the port number of 587, and choose the TLS radio button. You should be able to end the Account prefs dialog at this point.

November 29, 2007 · 1 min · 58 words · Jodi Brown

Resize Windows to Specific Dimensions Easily With Sizer

Note that the setting is unique for each preset. The utility doesn’t take up much memory either, only 1204 KB on my system. Quite a useful little utility… well worth checking out.

November 28, 2007 · 1 min · 32 words · Mrs. Katherine Valdez DDS

View the List of Installed Drivers the Easy Way

Once you launch the utility, it’s fairly self explanatory… Text format would be useful if you wanted to paste it into a forum thread while asking for assistance. Note that system restore helps out with that as well…Download DriverView from nirsoft.net

November 28, 2007 · 1 min · 41 words · Joanna Smith

Tabbed Remote Desktop / VNC Client for Windows

Thankfully there’s a slick software called Terminals that gives you tabbed remote desktop capabilities. There’s dozens of other features in this software, including the ability to upload screenshots directly to flickr. It’s definitely worth a look, although I did have a few problems with it crashing on me. Since it’s in active development, I assume these issues will be worked out over time.Download Terminals from codeplex.com

November 27, 2007 · 1 min · 66 words · Jennifer Steele

Fix For Outlook 2007 Constantly Asking for Password on Vista

Before you do anything else, close Outlook. You should now see that the original folder was re-created again.

November 25, 2007 · 1 min · 18 words · Matthew Howard

Make Explorer Show Window Titles in Windows Vista

Download AeroBar.exe from psscript.net[direct download]

November 25, 2007 · 1 min · 5 words · Mark Cunningham

Get the Linux Alt+Window Drag Functionality in Windows

I set about to duplicate this functionality in Windows using my favorite automation tool, AutoHotkey. A short amount of browsing time later and I’d come up with a workable solution modified fromthis script.

November 24, 2007 · 1 min · 33 words · Lee Luna

Disabling Instant Search in Outlook 2007

It’s one of the best new features in Outlook 2007! I personally found this very useful when the Instant Search just completely broke. Note: I’m not recommending that you just go and try this. Now when you restart Outlook, the search will work just like the old versions of Outlook did. That’s right, it will be painfully slow.

November 20, 2007 · 1 min · 58 words · Joseph Ramirez