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Author: Thomas

How I moved my email to Gmail

  • 6 May, 2008

A few weeks ago I took control over my email.  Not only did I clean out my inboxes, but I also converted everything over to Gmail.  Why would I do this? Always online and availabe to me. Doesn’t take up space on my webserver. The labeling system is fantastic.  I didn’t really know this until […]

WALL•E Comes to a Firefox Theme

  • 1 May, 2008

While browsing through the Mozilla Addons site yesterday I came across the official WALL•E Firefox theme! Unfortunately the theme is Windows only. However, with a bit of investigating, I was able to extract the jar file and install it on my Mac. The theme is pretty good. WALL•E is a bit hard to see behind […]

Spice up Adium with iPhone Backgrounds

  • 25 Apr, 2008

Did you know that iPhone backgrounds make great backgrounds for chat windows in Adium?  See for yourself. It’s really simple to do too.  Here’s how. 1 – Grab a cool iPhone background.  Here is the blue iPhone background I’m using. 2 – Open Adium and go to the preferences and click on the messages area. 3 – See […]

How I Got My Inbox Into Shape

  • 20 Apr, 2008

I keep hearing people say that they got their inbox down to zero or their email is so organized and I never knew how they did it.  Then, last weekend, I sat down and started organizing a few messages.  Before I knew it, I was cleaning out my inbox and got it down to only a few messages. So […]

8 Things That Baffle Me About My iPod Touch

  • 16 Apr, 2008

I’ve been an iPod Touch owner since Christmas and I’ve been very happy.  However, there are still a few things that I just don’t quite get.  Maybe someone can help explain. Coverflow – It’s a really sweet feature, but the album art seems to only match the song that was playing when Coverflow as activated. […]

Give a Little Love

  • 13 Apr, 2008

Have you heard about Idol Gives Back?  More than likely you have.  Have you donated?  The money goes to help kids in our country and others have a better life.  Helping them out with things like books, safe places to live & play and medication. It’s easy to give back.  You can donate online, by mail […]

Fastest Mac Browser Test: Firefox 2, 3 and Safari

  • 12 Apr, 2008

Have you checked out Dromaeo.com?  It’s a Mozilla owned site that runs a set of JavaScripts and test out how fast your browser is.  I tried it on my iMac, 1.83 Intel Core Duo with 1.5 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, and found Firefox 3 beta 5 to be the fastest browser.  Oddly enough, Firefox […]

Are You Using That Magnet on the iMac?

  • 11 Apr, 2008

So what do you use that magnet on the side of your iMac for? I know my remote isn’t hanging on it. Who knows where that is. However, Scott sent me a video of his iLEVL Copy Holder. It’s a simple metal paper holder that sticks to that magnet in your iMac. That got me […]

Firefox 3 & iPox – An Update

  • 7 Apr, 2008

Well, I spent a few hours yesterday trying to figure out how I was going to go about upgrading all my themes to Firefox 3.  So far, I haven’t had any good ideas. The new theme structure with Firefox 3 is different than Firefox 2.  I knew it would be.  And, at this time, there […]

Contact Form Back Online – I didn’t get your email.

  • 1 Apr, 2008

It seems that my contact form has been down for an unknown amount of time.  Come to think of it, I don’t know that I’ve got any in a really long time. If you’ve tried to contact me in the past weeks, or even months, and never heard from me, that’d be why.  Try re-sending […]