Student Tool: Zotero Firefox Extension

A recent addition to the “FirefoxOS” that pushes even further to make the idea of an actual FirefoxOS feasible. This incredibly useful tool is like having a pad of souped up sticky notes in the back pocket of your browser. According to the website, “Zotero is an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other...

Screencast: How to Add Items to the Windows Sendt...

I rarely used to use the Windows Sendto menu, but after figuring out how to add items, I use it regularly. Here’s a quick screencast on how to add items to the Sendto menu. Although the examples shown in this screencast are very basic and simple, use your imagination and the menu could become an excellent productivity tool. ...

Quick Tip: Disable that Annoying Windows Update Re...

You know that annoying popup that appears every 15 minutes nagging you to restart windows after updates have been installed? Not only is this annoying if you don’t want to or can’t restart, but if you are doing something in full screen mode, it will minimize it to display you the popup box. Here is a quick tutuorial on how to disable this annoying windows popup, and spare you a lot of frustration and possibly some...

How to Sync Google Calendar with a Desktop App

Don't get me wrong, Google Calendar is a great app with a great UI, But there are some situations where you might want to access GCal from your desktop.  There are a couple ways of accessing GCal from your desktop using programs such as Rainlendar or Thundirbird.   GCal in Thunderbird: (works in Mozilla Sunbird as well) Thunderbird is an outstanding app for handling e-mail but it could be better.  The one...

Quick Tip: Search Most Websites Using Firefox̵...

One of the great features of Firefox is the ability to use keyword bookmarking. What keyword bookmarking allows, is the ability to type a keyword into the URL bar and be directed to the site which has that bookmark. e.g. bookmark addons.mozilla.org with keyword amo, and then type amo into the URL bar and be directed to addons.mozilla.org) Today I will explain how to take advantage of keyword bookmarking and let you search...