Category Archives: tips

how to edit mp3 id3 tags with free software

So you’re putting those cool mp3′s online filled with great music. But when people download them, all they get to read off their fancy smartphone, iPod or mp3 player’s display is an ugly ass file name. Bummer. Wouldn’t it be sweet as pie if you’d see an album title scroll by, maybe even an artist [...]

install multiple windows applications at once

Getting a new computer is awesome. Installing all your most frequently used and essential bits of Windows software on it isn’t. So I searched the web for something that could do this boring task for me. Computers are usually good at that. I remember using something called AppSnap in the past, but that hasn’t been [...]

visual studio 2010 becomes slow after saving on Windows 7

Ran into this annoying bugger of a problem with Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 7 where every time I saved a file (any file, no matter how large or small it was) the GUI started reacting extremely slow on me. Menu’s didn’t react, keystrokes didn’t appear, scrolling didn’t work. It acted like a whole bunch [...]

fixing a slow loading android home screen

I have this Android phone and it rocks. It rocks because it’s slick and fast and it allows me to does all this neato geek stuff I love so much. But then I press my home button and it takes the damn thing 6 to 7 seconds to display my home screen icons. The background [...]

cleaning up disk space on windows round-up

I installed my PC initially with a separate C drive dedicated for Windows and system specific files. Unfortunately it turned out that I picked that drive too small as I didn’t foresee that there is plenty of software out there that simply won’t allow you to install to a different location than C:\Program Files. To [...]

moving the windows documents and settings profile folder

If you’re running out of disk space on your C-drive on a Windows XP system (which other OS has a C-drive anyway?) you might be thinking of moving your C:\Documents and Settings\youruserprofile to another disk. In my case the profile folder was eating away a good 2.5 GB of space. Moving it saved my ass [...]

making your blog go mobile

Mobile! It’s the latest and greatest of the buzzes isn’t it? But it’s damn right too, because more and more people are starting to use their mobile devices to reach out into the fabulous and marvellous inter-webs to do all sorts of productive things like using twitter, visiting reddit, tumbler and 4chan or read interesting [...]