Miscellaneous

A hodge-podge farrago of tips, how-to instructions and tricks for the myriad of technological arenas.

Pimpin’ XP With Zune Theme

As someone who makes their living sitting in front of this silicon and liquid crystal box, I guess it’s little surprise that every few months I get itchy and feel the need to redecorate my system a bit.

It was just this desire for change that led me to skin my Windows XP machine to look just like a Mac OSX system. Largely that depended on WindowBlinds, a program that allows you to do all sorts of creative …

Light a flame under Firefox’s memory usage

Much the anti-thesis of my “I hate IE” post, I love Firefox. From principle to practice, it just is what a browser should be.

That said, one of the things that’s been bugging me lately about Firefox is that it is just crap on resources. I admit, I’m terrible with having 19 trillion tabs open at the same time, and that’s bound to slow stuff down. But, what I don’t like is that even after those tabs are closed and …

Spring Cleaning Computer Clutter

When I was a kid, I loved spring cleaning! In my hometown, spring cleaning meant one thing, and one thing only – free stuff! People would clean out their attics and basements and lay it out on the curb for all to pick through.

I would come home with an endless assortment of random goodies – an old kickstand, goalie pads, a broken armchair – that would sit around the house until the following spring when my mom would put …