Category Archives: Techie
How to bypass firewalls under Firefox
I previously used QuickProxy addon for Firefox but found that it failed to load Youtube for me. Today I changed my proxyfier into FoxyProxy and it solved all my problems. Here is a brief tutorial of how to use it under Firefox. Read more »
Running Hiren’s BootCD from hard drive
Hiren’s BootCD is easily rankings itsself among the best boot cds and system maintainance tools. I have configured it to run both from my USB stick or directly from hard disk. Here is how to boot Hiren’s BootCD from the hard disk using grub for dos (grub4dos). Read more »
Prevent Directory Listing in Lighttpd
How to prevent files under wp-content/uploads to be listed in the browser? It is actually a one-liner under Lighttpd (lighty). Read more »
Debian Squeeze minior tweaks
Yes, I upgraded from Debian Lenny to Squeeze because I need ibus to replace scim as my default Chinese input program. So far the experience with ibus is good but the same was half-true with Squeeze. I spent quite some time to make Squeeze more comfortable to use. Read more »
What I expect in Windows 8
Here is what I expect from the next version of Windows from Microsoft — Windows 8 (Windows Eight). Read more »
What the perfect MS Windows is like?
Windows 7 has just been released in the market, and it has got a lot of media attention. Still it is just an upgrade of the previous Windows and another step forward on the familiar design track of Microsoft. As time goes by, this will not work very well on this Internet age. Here I offer some advice to MS on how to make a better OS in this Internet age. Read more »
Two handy screen capture tools
Both Snag-It and Hypersnap are ovekill for getting fast screenshots for a blog post. My search led me to two light-weight screen caputure tools. Read more »
How to avoid WordPress cropping images into thumnails
I am always frustrated with the way WordPress handles pictures in a post: when you upload an image, WordPress automatically crops it into a thumbnail, a medium and a large sized picture. The result is a crowded upload folder and a mess of file names that makes it hard to pinpoint the picture you really want to show to the readers. It’s time for change. Read more »
Quickly delete an unwanted song in Foobar2000
When I play music with foobar2000, there are certain music files I don’t like and I want to immediately delete them for good when they start playing. The plugin foo_deletecurrent does exactly this job and it works great with the latest foobar2000 (as of version 0.9.6.8). Read more »
A few nice WordPress themes
Browsing WordPress forum, I came across a few nice themes that I may consider using in the future. Tarski and Dkret3 will always be the themes of my choice. Both are well designed, with the former more suitable for serious topics and the later for more casual writing. Read more »