Our resident Windows hacker, Preston Gralla, has another great article up at Computerworld, this time about maintaining your online privacy in the face of increased snooping from the government, web sites, and private businesses (an expanded update to a hack of the same name that originally appeared in Windows XP Hacks, 2E Call for Hacks: […]
In the latest installment of Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools, Alexander Rose shows how to use Google Earth to provide cost-effective GPS mapping in real time: I have been doing a lot of exploring and surveying in the desert recently, and have been trying to find the right GPS mapping solution. The solution I found incorporated […]
If you press F1 in an older program on Vista, you’re in for a disappointment; the old help format is not supported in Vista. However, Microsoft has made the old Windows Help program available as a free download. – [via] Link
In Vista, if you’re logged in as a normal user but need to execute something with administrator privileges, there’s a quick shortcut that will let you do just this from the start menu’s run box. Just type the command, say “cmd”, into the run box, and then hit Ctrl+Shift+Enter instead of just the Enter key. […]
Sometimes an otherwise useful application is missing a feature or two. Take the Stickies app, for example. For whatever reason, the authors decided not to include a scrollbar. Perhaps this was because it’s not a necessary feature for most users. Perhaps it was just overlooked. Thankfully, you can customize most OS X apps with the […]
If your iPod decided to take the dirt nap, there may be a few tricks, short of buying a new one, that will put you back in tunes. Hackszine pal Sam writes: I recently discovered by 1. Simply opening your ipod 2. Disconnecting your drive 3. Turning the ipod back on and letting it boot […]
Back in the day, Linux users ran a utility called hdparm to make sure that their disk drives were operating at the ideal speeds. These days, Linux distributions usually can figure out the best settings for a modern drive, so it’s not needed as much. Still, it’s a nice tool for probing your hard drive’s […]
