When I changed my website’s theme a few weeks ago, I read an intriguing set of instructions in the template’s source files which suggested that I should download Abobe Fireworks to edit the site’s logo (top-left corner), which was stored in a PNG file.
I’ve worked with PNG graphic files for some time and was thinking [...]

If you haven’t heard yet, the new version of Windows is right around the corner. After having a ton of issues plague the Windows Vista operating system to the point that most people did not want to use it even if they had never seen it in their life, Windows 7 is trying to be [...]

I love using the Firefox Bookmarks toolbar. However, one thing that I found is that it tends to get crowded once you start having a lot of regular sites that you visit on there. A colleague of mine recently showed me a plugin that solves that issue called Smart Bookmarks Bar. What it does is [...]

If you own a Smartphone, especially one running Windows Mobile, you have probably been frustrated by the fact that Windows Mobile can only sync contact information with a full licensed copy of Microsoft Outlook. Besides the fact that Outlook is a pretty expensive application, it is overkill if all you are looking to do is [...]

Anyone who has ever had to edit the Windows Environment variables on their computer, specially the path, has probably cursed at the small window that Microsoft has built in their operating system to handle that task. While visiting a customer recently, I was shown a great little tool called the Rapid Environment Editor.
This free utility [...]

After Firefox managed to create itself a nice niche amongst web browser, there is now a new kid on the block: Google Chrome. I think that it was inevitable to see Google release their own browser after seeing all of the great online applications that they have developed over the years.
I installed Chrome myself this [...]

I’ve been thinking about making my home computer completely use open source or free software for a long time now. After finding open source alternatives for the majority of the desktop applications that I am using on Windows, I have made the final leap and converted my machine to use Ubuntu Linux.

Before starting down on [...]

A few weeks ago, a colleague mentioned how annoyed he was at always making typos when typing e-mail addresses of employees within our company (@engenuitytech.com). After doing a quick web search on my favorite site (sourceforge.net), I found a wonderful utility that solved his problem and also hads many interesting feature. HotKeyBind can be used [...]

I often talk about RSS since I find that it is the most helpful creation on the web in the past few years. I recently stumbled on a site that is starting a movement to standardize the RSS feed icon to put on web sites. Currently, there are a ton of different icons that are [...]

If you’re like me, you like to keep up-to-date with many different topics on many different web site and you find that it takes a long time to go from site to site to read all the news as they get posted. As well, you might always be on different computers so you don’t always [...]