Entries from April 2006

Changing the file type icons

Date April 30, 2006

If you ever wanted to change the document default icon but don’t want to use tools like Candy Bar, here is a simple way how to do it manually. All you have to do is to go to the resources for particular application, find the icon set and replace it with the one you like. [...]

World cheapest MP3 player

Date April 23, 2006

Japanes company Evergreen has just released the worlds cheapest MP3 player - DN-2000, costing only 999 Yen (about A$12).
The player is very small, 60×60×13 mm and it comes with neck strap and headphones but no memory. What, no memory? That’s right, it uses the SD card to store your MP3 files and supprts SD [...]

Guy fills his Gmail account in only 24 hours

Date April 20, 2006

With ever (slowly) increasing Gmail storage this guy decided to test if he can really fill it up and if so - what happens next. So he kept sending himself a 7.8 MB file over and over again to finally reach the 2.7 GB milestone.
Next, I decided to get started filling my inbox. I went [...]

Safari market share grows to 3.19%

Date April 19, 2006

Although it maintains its standing as the No. 3 browser on the Internet, a recent market share report by Net Applications shows Apple’s WebKit-based Safari to have garnered a 3.19 percent share in March, an increase of 1.81 percent from last year.
During the same time period, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer saw its market share slip over [...]

Should you switch to Mac ?

Date April 16, 2006

I spend a lot of my time in different internet forums and one topic that pops every so often is switching to Mac. Before I switched to Mac I was a regular poster asking all sorts of questions, trying to figure out if tossing out my hard earned dollar on Apple computer would be a [...]

Google Calendar Keyboard Shortcuts

Date April 15, 2006

Yesterday Google released another servcie - Google calendar. As much as I dislike Gmail service I have admit I am very impressed with the Calendar. I was looking to have my calendar on line but non of the available online services has offered complete, intuitive, easy to use and yet very functional calendar on line. [...]