ExtremeTech is going to release a book soon called Hacking Gmail, which "takes Gmail beyond ordinary e-mail and fashions it to perform several tasks." For a lot of people, Gmail is just another web-based e-mail service, myself included. The boys over at ET, however, have created and compiled some pretty nifty tricks to use Gmail for other things, a ( Read more... )

I am very obsessive-compulsive about posting here at Tekhnolohiya. I'm strict about the layout, the HTML tags I use, the positioning of the elements, et cetera, et cetera. One of the things I'm fussy over is the way I optimize my images. See, it's important to me that readers get to the content immediately, meaning everything loading up on the page ( Read more... )

Lately, with the sudden proliferation of a certain animated movie, a number of people have come up to me asking me how to make the included subtitle file (indicated by a .idx, .sub, or .srt extension) work with the video. Well I decided to put up a mini-tutorial so that people can just refer and link to it should the need arise. I guess it's become ( Read more... )

From time to time, people ask me about my old posts about Firefox tweaking. Since this is the third (and hopefully final) incarnation of my little tech weblog indulgence, I thought it was time to once again post the hacks.

For the following, start up Firefox, and in the address bar enter about:config. This will bring up a whole list of the ( Read more... )