Author Archives: Jason
Sound Notification on Hitting *lock
Windows stows away a setting that enables a beep whenever one of the lock keys are hit (Caps Lock, Scoll Lock, and Num Lock). For those of you who need extra notification when you accidentally hit the Capslock button, we’ll … Continue reading
Open Firefox Searches in a New Tab
When you search using Firefox’s Search form, it’ll automatically open the queries in the same tab that was open. This behavior can be annoying, but luckily there’s an about:config setting to tell Firefox to open searches in a new tab. … Continue reading
Disable “Phrase Not Found” Sound in Firefox
Firefox, by default, makes an annoying sound everytime you type an additional letter in the “Find” field which it cannot find. A quick trip to about:config will easily resolve this problem. Type about:config into the URL bar and in the … Continue reading
Disable the Sleep Button Function
New keyboards now often come with a sleep button, which can sometimes be in an easy to hit location (e.g. near Esc key). Luckily, the Control Panel provides an easy way to change the function. Head over to the Control … Continue reading
Demo Software in a Sandbox
Sandboxie, a free application, creates a virtual layer on your computer where you can run and install various software applications without actual changes to your true hard disk. Simply, Sandboxie forces applications to write to the layer instead of the … Continue reading
Disable Windows XP’s Startup and Shutdown Sounds
We’re going to show you how to easily disable Windows XP’s startup and shut down sounds, and optionally, any other sounds that Windows makes when you perform an action. You can also use these settings to change the sounds associated … Continue reading
Deploy a Local Web Server on Windows
In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to quickly deploy a local WAMP (Windows Apache MySQL PHP) server in a few minutes using XAMPP. Using a local webserver, you can install PHP web applications on your local computer … Continue reading
Quick Screenshots with Faststone Capture
For Windows, Faststone Capture 5.3 is a free (for noncommercial use) lightweight application allowing you to take screenshots (pictures) of your desktop. It allows you to easily take a picture of the current window, the selected window/object, a rectangular region, … Continue reading
Sync Host and Guest Folders in VirtualBox
As a follow up to our seamless Ubuntu in Windows tutorials, we’re going to show you how to sync a Windows (host) folder to a folder in the Ubuntu (guest). You’ll need to have guest additions installed on the guest … Continue reading
Configuring Synergy Server on Linux
In this tutorial we’re going to explain the setup of the Synergy server on Ubuntu. If you haven’t already installed it, open Terminal and type the following: sudo apt-get install synergy