Here’s a quick tip if you upload videos to YouTube regularly or every now and then. It can be frustrating when you are uploading your video and it gets hopelessly stuck for whatever reason, particularly if it is a large video given that you can upload up to 20GB (provided your account is enabled for …
Category: Firefox
Apr 30 2012
End of the Line for Firefox 3.6
If you’re still all the way back on Firefox 3.6 (while the latest version is now Firefox 12) you might want to read about how will be affected next month. In a nutshell, Firefox 3.6 is pretty long in the tooth (over two years old which is a while in the web browser industry considering …
Mar 29 2012
Download Password Protected Online Videos
A while ago I recommended KeepVid as a great tool to download videos from popular video streaming sites including YouTube, DailyMotion, Google Video, Megavideo, Metacafe and Vimeo. However, KeepVid doesn’t work if the content is password protected or restricted in its ability for the general public to access it. If you do need to download a …
Feb 06 2012
Automatic Updates Coming in Internet Explorer
Here’s something to keep in mind when using Internet Explorer on Windows XP, Vista and 7. For a while now, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome have possessed auto-update capabilities (Firefox being more explicit about it while Chrome silently updates itself in the background and applies the changes when it is restarted with nary a peep). …
Jan 15 2012
Use TweekDeck Without Local Installation
For a lot of people using Windows the Twitter client of choice is TweetDeck however it can be a problem to get running if you are unable to install Adobe Air on the computer (which is often the case in corporate or enterprise environments). Otherwise, if you are staunchly against installing Adobe Air on your computer …
Jan 14 2012
How to Fix Looping Firefox Errors on Startup
Here’s something that I encountered this week when attempting to update my installation of Firefox (again, the updates seem incredibly frequent now). I repeatedly encountered the following error when trying to load Firefox after the upgrade: Your computer must be rebooted to complete a previous upgrade of Firefox. Do you want to reboot now? Even …
Dec 30 2011
Try and Locate a Stolen Camera
Here’s a quick tip tonight. With services like “Find my iPhone” on the iOS platform and similar services available on Windows Phone and some Android phones it’s interesting to see this proliferate to other “non-cellular” devices such as the humble digital camera. These days, more cameras are now building in GPS functionality such as the …
Sep 15 2011
Firefox Aurora Channel May Require Several Updates
Another quick tip for tonight. If you are close to the bleeding edge when it comes to the Firefox browser without being on the nightly releases you’ll be on the Aurora channel. This update channel only releases the most recent build that works (somewhat) compared to some nightly builds that might not work at all. …
Aug 21 2011
Recover Lost Firefox Performance with SpeedyFox
Leading on from yesterday’s article covering the release of Firefox 8 on the Aurora channel I mentioned a potential way for you to restore performance in existing installation of Firefox which has become sluggish. In the case where performance has been lost as a result of bloated and fragmented SQLITE database files (which is where …
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