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How To Make Old Firefox Extensions Compatible
Firefox 2.0 is a great browser, but unfortunately some of the older extensions aren’t compatible. However, it is possible to manually make the majority of old extensions compatible.
To make an extension compatible, do the following:
How To Make All Your MP3s Play At The Same Volume
Isn’t it annoying sometimes when you are playing back mp3s and the you have to keep dashing for the volume control because the playback volume can differ dramatically from track to track. This can occur particularly for older CDs that weren’t recorded in a modern studio. Although some mp3 players like iTunes try [...]
28Oct2006 | Tony Williams | 1 comment | Continued
16 Top Tips For Your iPod
Love them or hate them, they’re here to stay. Apple’s iPod is the top mp3 player on the market by far and 80% of us have one. To get more out of your iPod and mp3 collection, then check out these cool tips. Ranging from how to prolong battery life to how to copy songs [...]
27Oct2006 | Tony Williams | 4 comments | Continued
Watch More Than 200 Channels On Your PC For Free
There are several services that let you watch free TV on the internet. ChooseAndWatch is the best I’ve seen with over 200 TV channels available, all nicely categorized including news, business, music, movies, cartoons and many more. Best of all, no download is needed so all you need is a browser.
To try the [...]
Avoid Spam Create Disposable Email Addresses With Gmail
No matter how hard your email service tries, spam always gets through. Sometimes we have to register with services that then end up becoming spammers. If you are a Gmail user then you can avoid this by using ‘disposable email addresses’. Here’s how:
(i) Gmail uses plus-addressing, which lets you put a plus sign after your [...]
Bypass Work And School Firewalls - Use PimpmyIP.com
It can be annoying sometimes trying to use the internet at work or at school as they can have quite draconian access controls. The easiest way to bypass any controls is to use a proxy site to browse the internet.
Most proxy sites don’t have easy to remember names. If you find remembering [...]
Clean Your PC Frequently
I know that not everyone will be as obsessive as me about cleaning their PC, but it is a good idea to clean your machine every now and then to get rid of programs and settings that you no longer use.
My favourite program for doing this is CCleaner. This great little app will removes [...]
Make Winamp Sound Better
Winamp is a great free music player and now you can make it sound better. The easiest way to do this is to download Enhancer 017 which is free and activate the “General improvements” preset.
Other presets which are worth checking out are “Treble boost”, “Party with ambience”, “Inside the music”.
Optimize Your Internet Connection
Remember the days when 512K seemed fast? Even though most of us have connections much faster than this now it is still worthwhile to make sure that your connectedion is optimized.
One of the quickest ways to do this but by far the easiest is to run TCP/IP Optimizer. To run the tool do [...]
How To Use iTunes With Other MP3 Players
Are you one of those ’special people’ who don’t have an iPod and use a different mp3 player?
Well if you are, but you still want to use iTunes which is the best music player around, then this great little application could be the solution. BadApple is a free plugin that allows you to sync [...]
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