It all depends on your job function. I have a job where one day there aren't enough hours in the day (thus no surfing the Internet) and the next there is not a whole lot to do. I think that if you get the work done and take minor breaks then it's O.K. Nobody complains about the smokers that stand outside our building…

My go to workhorse is Firefox and I'm loving the new FF4. Reason? Mostly because it has a media control plugin that lets me pause a player and a few other great plugins that I haven't found an equivalent yet for Chrome. But, I also use Chrome when I want speed and the few actual web apps (as opposed to just a link to…

So I loaded the new Firefox. First words out of my mouth "Whoa! THAT's different". Second words "Cool....it's customizable"! Funny thing is I can vaguely remember bitching about FF3 back in the day. The nicest thing is now IE, Chrome, and Firefox are similar starting the battles all over again. At least they are all…

When I first upgraded one computer, it dorked up the tool bar and the new tab button disappeared. I right clicked on the toolbar and selected "customize" and then "restore default set" and that fixed the bars back. Then I proceeded to customize the toolbars. The thing I'm not sure of, is if the new tab button is part…

I've switched all my bills to "paperless" and just use the free Bill Pay service at my bank. That way I have one place to pay the bills and one place for a record of what has been paid. The nice thing is the bank will offer to connect to some accounts and retrieve the bill for you.

When version 3.0 came out I had a bunch of problems with add-ons not loading. You can disable the version check and most add-ons will work fine: [www.nirmaltv.com]

I'd agree with others, that increasing your memory is the best bet and then going back to a Linux variant. I had the same setup and once I got the memory to 1.5 Megs, it cooks along nicely with Ubuntu Desktop running on it.

If you use Winbubble to tweak your Windows settings, there is a function built in for this as well.

GV does use cell minutes on a cell phone. The "free" part is there are no long distance charges. Kind of moot nowadays with nationwide calling plans. It is nice though if you want to call overseas. You get charged low rates through GV instead of ultra high rates from your cell carrier. SMS is free outside of the cost…

Never any Blackberry love here:

Hacking a Lastpass account is no different than hacking a local account. Lastpass encrypts your info so even they cannot get into it. That said, I trust their setup far more than the browser's built in password manager. You should be using good passwords that are strong anyways. It's a lot easier to remember one…

LastPass stores them online, so all you do is go to the LastPass website and login. They even provide a virtual on screen keyboard to twart key stroke loggers if you are on a public PC.

Well this is a "Duh" article. I've always used wired Ethernet for the PC that does video chat. Reasoning is not as much as the speed of the WiFi, but because WiFi frequently drops out. That kills video and VoIP. This is especially prevalent in areas where lots of WiFi connections are available and competing for the…

Google Talk does do VoIP between GTalk users without a Google Voice# on the PC client. Google's two products are a bit confusing. You can use Google Voice without a computer, or through GMail's chat. Google Talk, the stand alone client (or web based) can call each other, but not offnet through Google Voice. The two…

If you use the Google Voice add-on for Firefox (and I think there is one for Chrome) you can do that. I love it as I sit at my desk and click a number and my desk phone rings. The nice thing is you can set it at work to ring your work phone and at home to ring your home phone independently.

VOTE: Google Talk

Thanks for the Night Schooling! Where's my diploma? For those complaining about Linux being for geeks, you don't have to get this deep. If the live distro CD works on your PC, then chances are you can just load the OS and go without ever doing anything. The nice thing about distros like Ubuntu is it already installs…

Wow, great Lifehacker timing: [lifehacker.com]

Wow, great Lifehacker timing: [lifehacker.com]

Death by Dropbox