Windows XP used to have a feature where it would remember the size and location of your Explorer windows. But that was removed in Windows 7. All Explorer windows are bunched up in a single location at a single size. Fortunately, you can add that feature back with ShellFolderFix. Download it here. Via
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Taskbar Tweaker is a little app to modify the Windows 7 taskbar to your liking. Download it here.
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If you work with a computer (then again, who doesn’t anymore?), you might be interested in new research that says it’s not badly adjusted chairs or bad sitting posture that’s a problem. The problem for office workers is sitting itself: New research in the diverse fields of epidemiology, molecular biology, biomechanics, and physiology is converging [...]
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It’s a big annoyance trying to save YouTube videos. Why would you want to save one? Well for one thing, it can be a lot more convenient to play it from a desktop multimedia player. For some users it takes up less CPU than the browser-based Flash player, important for phone users. Finally, if a [...]
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If you’re putting images on the Web, they’re available for people to download en masse and repost them as their own. So you might want to watermark them. That won’t prevent people from downloading and reposting, but at least you can identify the images as being original to you. There are plenty of ways to [...]
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Ever heard of Mary Blair? Neither had I until today’s Google home page doodle honoring her on her 100th birthday. Mary Blair was a pioneering artist in the early days of Disney. She did work on Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and Cinderella. She explored the use of new techniques like putting multiple shades of [...]
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It amazes me how much stuff Apple has been able to stuff into the iPhone: accelerometer, compass, GPS all seem old today. The latest addition is a teslameter, a device for measuring magnetic fields using the iPhone 3GS or 4′s magetometer. I don’t know exactly what use there’ll be for that, but I’m sure people [...]
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If you think the default panel in Ubuntu or Gnome takes up too many resources, or you just need a lightweight panel for the new iterations of the GUIs in Ubuntu or Gnome which lack a bottom panel, you might be interested in Tint2, a free and open source panel for various Linuxes. It’s in [...]
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Free fonts from Google to download or to allow your website’s visitors to download.
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Is YouTube slow for you? YouTube’s testing out a new beta mode called Feather. It’s supposed to be a lite version of YouTube with the fluff removed for a faster response. Think of it as YouTube the way it used to be. Anyway, you go to the Feather URL, here: http://www.youtube.com/feather_beta Click on Enable. Now [...]
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