Archive for the 'Tips and Tricks' Category

Make Applications Running in WINE Look Better

The Tombuntu blog has posted an interesting method for improving the really ugly “early Win95″ look of Windows programs running under WINE. Unfortunately, it slows some Windows apps running under some versions of WINE to a crawl on some systems — mine included. The ability to “theme” WINE applications is a new feature in recent [...]

Ultimate Fantasy Football Site Guide

According to this article from PC Magazine, Fantasy Football is the most popular game on the Internet with 15 million or so players. Most of them do not pay a dime to play either as they use the basic (aka free) version of Fantasy Football sites. This PC Magazine article goes on to review the [...]

Is Your PC a Zombie? (Tip)

PC Advisor has just published an article suggesting ways to check if your PC is infected with “Zombie software” that allows others to control your computer and use it to send out Spam or to attack other computers. Unfortunately, there are no surefire ways to check according to the article, but there are things you [...]

“XPLinux” — Running Linux on Windows with VMWare and Xming

As most people reading this blog probably know, I’ve decided not to upgrade to Vista. I would need a new computer and really have no need for one, other than to run Vista. I have, however, upgraded to 1 gig of RAM over the weekend and this has finally allowed me to run Windows and [...]

Allow Empty Subject Thunderbird Extension

My wife likes to email me urls, but doesn’t like to have to type a subject. The new Thunderbird 2.0 pops up a warning dialog when you leave the subject blank and does not provide a way to turn this warning off. This extension simply disables the empty subject line warning.
Operating System: Thunderbird 2 Extension
Price: [...]