The tips section in my reader is mostly filled with ’starred’ items. I found out that there are lots of ‘very’ useful information I can get from those sites. So in order to prevent my ’starred’ items from piling up, I decided to create a series of blog posts that will accumulate and store all the ones I like.

Here are the most recent favorite topics I starred. Most of the links points directly to the origin/source of the topic.

• If you find yourself loosing concentration in work or in school, you can improve it by doing some mind exercises.
• Avoid the “shopping momentum” and save some money.
• You can be like a professional writer by scheduling your writing.
• The right way to tie a tie.
• Free up more memory resources by mastering Windows task manager.
• Windows XP: Remove user accounts from login screen.
• Windows Vista: Close windows explorer easily.
• Microsoft Outlook: Change your startup page to iGoogle or other website.
• Run a Wiki in your portable USB drive.
• Windows XP/Vista: Remove the system tray.
• Windows Vista: Remove unnecessary components.
• Microsoft Outlook: Manage the email address auto-complete list.
• Email addresses that will convert your documents.
• Secure your computer system with ease.
• Windows Vista: Disable the useless built-in CD/DVD burning feature.
• Improve your photos by macro photography.

Sources: Lifehacker, Lifehack, How-To Geek

Most of you probably know that I’m not a Vista advocate, and you might wonder why there are lots of Windows Vista tips and tricks in my list. Those are for the ones who uses Vista, and if by any chance, I’m ‘forced’ to work in a Windows Vista environment, I will know may way around.

This is a first of a series of posts.

Tags: computer, life, tech, tips

In my Google Reader, I have a folder (actually its a tag) that I named Tech-tips, this is where I place websites that I’m subscribed to that gives useful tidbits of information regarding my computer and the internet, and other stuff. Currently there are two subscriptions there, lifehacker.com and howtogeek.com, both are a wonderful source and resource of information.

Here are some of the posts that I’ve recently “starred” from my reader. These are the ones I found interesting.

Lifehacker.com

• If you use the mouse wheel (middle button) to click links inside Mozilla Firefox browser, it will load the window in an inactive tab. But you can also make it a paste (ctrl+v) function.
• You can migrate your old Gmail to your new Gmail address with a few simple steps. It will preserve all your emails.
• Without using caffeine, you can boost your early morning alertness.
• Make a batch file to quickly kill (close) multiple running apps, so that you won’t have to click the X on each one.
• For those who always use BitTorrent, here are top 10 BitTorrent Tools and Tricks

How-To-Geek

• Speed Up Disk Access by Disabling Last Access Updating in Windows XP
• Remove “Map Network Drive” Menu Item from Windows Vista or XP
• Add “Open with Notepad” to the Context Menu for All Files
• Change Default Wallpaper Folder to My Pictures on Windows XP
• What is svchost.exe And Why Is It Running?
• Tweak Firefox’s “Responsiveness” Config Setting
• Copy To the Clipboard From the Windows Command Prompt

That’s it. You can visit their site for more tech-tips and life-tips, or better yet subscribe to their feeds.

Tags: computer, tech, tips