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A Firefox extension called RSS Ticker turns your Firefox live bookmarks into a scrolling RSS ticker. Thats right! You wind up with an amazing bar of scrolling RSS goodness. The RSS Ticker sits below the status bar and shows your live bookmarks as they are updated. Almost every thing about RSS Ticker is customizable, like [...]
How many times have you been asked online to provide your personal information, such as your name, number and e-mail address? If you are like me, thousands of times, almost everyday. Each time you do it too, you have this aching feeling in your stomach, because you know you are about to get about a [...]
They say necessity is the mother of all inventions, except for the bastard children of people looking to be lazy and productive.
Tinyurl has been around for a long whiles now and many of you probably use it on a daily basis and don’t even know it. Websites use it to hide links, people use [...]
Have you been a busy little bit-torrenter lately?
Do you have tons of ISO’s laying around? Trying to mount them in Vista like you were used to in XP and not having any luck?
Our reader Tom in Wisconsin is and this sounds like a job for dum dum dum (key theme music)… AskTheAdmin!
Well it turns out [...]
The title of this question here is a little misleading because you can use this little web app to serve lots of stuff besides quotes, like random ads or words of wisdom. Get your geek on and swap out scripts and images galore!Originally we used the free RandomQuote ASP generator to feed our geeky quotes [...]
I was a hard core Netscape user before the days of FireFox and before that I was all about IE4 . (Sorry for the re-run but Kayla didn’t let us sleep this weekend!) So I have realized change is good and you live and you learn. So when I heard about Flock, I decided to [...]
Today’s question is a very common problem that most of you have had one time or another. It is especially annoying if you are about to sit down to watch a video and you can’t… Then you have to venture out onto the world wide web to try and hunt down a solution.
Look no [...]
So you don’t want to dole out the big bucks for some fancy smancy cd/dvd authoring suite just to burn cd’s and disk images? Or how about you don’t want the bloat from said suite?
No it’s probably that you are just like me and a big cheapskate when it comes to buying software!
Either which [...]
This question made me go “huh?”
Then I thought about it a little and found a FireFox extension that does just that!
Yeah we know that you don’t have time to read ALL the Blogs that you want to! At last check my RSS reader had over 300 feeds. We found a little FireFox extension that made [...]
The guys over at Ghacks are awesome and obviously not just for Google hacks check out this gem…Today boys and girls we are going to learn how to get Vista’s Clear Type fonts for FREE! Just like AtA likes it!
As I said before the guys over at Ghacks helped me out today when I [...]
After figuring out I could edit Blogger blog posts from my mobile I decided to see what I could do with my TiVo while I am away. I went online and did some research. I found this tid-bit from Dave Zatz (Sling Media) and gave it a shot.Allow me to bring you kids up to [...]
We have all been stuck between a rock and a hard place at one time or another… Stuck staring blankly at a Windows machine that just won’t boot. I have been recommending this re-branded toolkit left and right recently so here is a little more information on it for you guys:
This nifty tool allows you [...]
Mary Ann writes to us that she misses the graphical WinIpCfg.exe that came with Windows 98 and ME. She wants to throw it on a memory stick for quick access to IP information and a GUI for editing those numbers – you know like back in the day.
No worries Mary Ann we have got an [...]
Hey Boys and Girls,
Commodore here bringing you another installment of geeky goodness.
Every once in a while an application comes along that simply becomes a staple in your data diet. A requiem for your software library that just seems to always be useful, especially if you follow the advice and antics of The Admin here [...]
Adam Pash covered this tiny app on LifeHacker a while back. This Resizeable goodness is ever so cleverly called resizeenable and it lets you resize system windows that you normally could not. You guys always seem to find what I am looking for before I’m looking for it! Thanks LifeHacker…
Some of you may wonder why [...]
My beta invitation came through a little while ago (WE HAVE MORE! 4/10/08) and I couldn’t wait to fire up the fox and give her a shot. I gave my first Aviary online application a spin and all I can say is WOW!
The application AtA got to beta test today (we have 5 beta invites [...]
Hey boys and girls!
Have you ever been in a situation where you wished you could sync calendars with somebody who is seemingly unconnected? On top of that, you wished that somehow, by some magical force, those calendars can sync automatically, wirelessly and invisibly; involving no further effort beyond the initial configuration, and that this calendar [...]
Hey Kiddies,
It’s time for some more time-saving, hassle killing, good, clean, free, fun. I work in a corporate environment, and lots of times, there are people who suffer from serious RTFM errors. Those people are prime candidates for the “Spell it out for me” award. This nifty little proggy, called MWSnap (named after it’s creator [...]
The title of this question here is a little misleading because you can use this little web app to serve lots of stuff besides quotes like random ads or words of wisdom. Get your geek on and swap out scripts and images galore!Originally we used the free RandomQuote ASP generator to feed our geeky quotes [...]
We did this piece on Mosio a while back and since then they have grown and we have grown to love them. Did we mention that all of the AtA guys are addicted to the Mosio? Read through our humorous rants and then check out a quick interview with Mosio creator Jay Sachdev. He tells [...]
One of my pet peeves is people with an antivirus that is not up to date. Seriously now, why even have antivirus if you are not keeping it up to date?
For those of you out there that don’t have your antivirus up to date because you are too cheap to renew your license, don’t fret! [...]
Hello Boys and Girls,
Can you imagine a world where your voicemails are automagically transcribed by a robot and sent to your email inbox?
How would you like being able to read your voicemails instead of calling in for them?
Commodore 64 back again after a short hiatus for the holidays and a whole lot of winter fun [...]
Don’t have a fancy smancy web enabled blackberry or uber cool iphone and you want to find the closest pizza place?
Feeling left out from being able to get in on our Wikipedia SMS Action ? Then this is for you – our less technologically advanced readers…
Yahoo’s SMS One Search will be your life [...]
Hello everyone!
I am a new guest writer here at AskTheAdmin.com and thought that it would be a good time to introduce myself. But since nobody cares about that, I’ll get straight to the post. (edit: First post and already with the aTa sense of humor)
The widget that I’m going to talk about allowed me to [...]
After a week out of the office at my Mac OsX server training I am totally swamped. Throw in holiday shopping, a new baby and AtA… Whoa boy!
So Sunday’s post will be a quick roundup and excerpts from my two newest posts on MakeUseOf and a couple of AtA faves.
I demoed and reviewed Mint.com. [...]
I Did something pretty cool the other day that I think AtA readers will appreciate.
I Had a hard drive die on a guy in the accounting department. Lets just say he does payroll for the company and I still want to get paid!
Cyclical redundancy check failed was the message. BSD on boot, all that jazz.
Yikes….Used [...]
We just heard from our friends at Walyou that Divx is feeling the holiday cheer a little early and giving away free copies of Divx Pro. Now you too can compress your home movies, recorded TV shows and anything else just like the professional bootleggers!
I love Divx Pro and bought mine eons ago. Divx makes [...]
Have you been a busy little bit-torrenter lately?
Do you have tons of ISO’s laying around? Trying to mount them in Vista like you were used to in XP and not having any luck?
Our reader Tom in Wisconsin is and this sounds like a job for dum dum dum (key theme music)… AskTheAdmin!
Well it turns out [...]
The age old question has been answered!
Paul over at Bauer-Power.net posted this and it answers one of todays questions. Remember this goes against ANY agreement you agreed to when you click I Agree. With me? Check it out:
I found a free utility that can extend your trial software…indefinitely! You know the software I am talking [...]
So you have a website or a blog and it takes forever to load but you have no idea if it is your 800 images or your mp3’s playing in the background or wait…
Maybe its the 192 scripts you have running. Sound familiar?
Well we got a free website for you!
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
From Their Site:
Try our free web [...]
How can i get more traffic to my blog-site? What attracts readers to a blog? Will you look at my site Mr. Admin?
This one I’ll field myself right off the bat because I have tried everything, and I mean everything. I have stayed up late nights and worked on traffic, and only traffic, for days [...]
So there you are at Starbucks sipping on your latte, and surfing on their incredibly high priced wi-fi with your brand new Alienware laptop thinking to yourself, “Self! This is a mighty good latte!”.A few minutes later, you slip into a latte induced coma (Work with me here.)
After about an hour or two you [...]
Mozilla released Beta 1 of Firefox 3.0 a few days ago, so I thought it was about time I tried out the latest and greatest from the guys at Mozilla. Grab it here if you haven’t yet, but be warned, it’s only meant for testing, and shouldn’t be used if you require a stable browser.
I’ve [...]
Adam Pash covered this tiny app on this wonderful Thanksgiving morning. It is called resizeenable and it lets you resize system windows that you normally could not. You guys always seem to find what I am looking for before I’m looking for it! Thanks LifeHacker…
Some of you may wonder why we are so anal-retentive that [...]
Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen,
This is your friendly Commodore 64 here to report on yet another useful, tech-improving, free service that is bound to improve any nerd’s life fo sho.
This new service, which has solved a long standing problem, in my view, with send/receive, hates attachments, crappy, slow, sluggish, snap-crackle, pop3 email technology. The software [...]
They say necessity is the mother of all inventions, except for the bastard children of people looking to be lazy and productive.
Tinyurl has been around for a long whiles now and many of you probably use it on a daily basis and don’t even know it. Websites use it to hide links, people use [...]
Hey Boys and Girls,
Shhh, this one is a little secret for all you hardcore aTa fans…
We here at www.asktheadmin.com have an inside scoop that is sure to be the talk of the (virtual) town about Google and their new Gphone.
We all know it’s reality that Google is, in fact, working on their own phone. It’s [...]
A Firefox extension called RSS Ticker turns your Firefox live bookmarks into a scrolling RSS ticker. Thats right! You wind up with an amazing bar of scrolling RSS goodness. The RSS Ticker sits below the status bar and shows your live bookmarks as they are updated. Almost every thing about RSS Ticker is customizable, like [...]
I was a hard core Netscape user before the days of FireFox and before that I was all about IE4 . So I have realized change is good and you live and you learn. So when I heard about Flock, I decided to give it a go. For you Face-bookers. Flickr’ers and Bloggers you can [...]
Help me Admin.
I downloaded some videos my family would love to watch. My buddy showed me how to use Azerus a Bit Torrent client. I downloaded the files just like we did on his computer. They finished but the audio doesn’t work on one file and neither the video or the audio work on another.
Desperate [...]
Hey Boys and Girls,
Every once in a while a proggy comes along that is simply a staple of your data diet. A requiem for your software library that just seems to always be useful, especially if you follow the advice and antics of The Admin here at AskTheAdmin.com.
One of the most talked about subjects [...]
Mary Ann writes to us that she misses the graphical WinIpCfg.exe that came with Windows 98 and ME. No worries Mary Ann we have got an exact replica from Microsoft’s Windows 2000 Resource Kit that will have you time traveling back to use IpConfig with the best of them!
We Do find it strange the big [...]
Every time a machine gets put in front of me that needs to be formatted I first have to backup all the user’s personal data. I can’t see their passwords for their IM or Email accounts – So how can I retrieve it? We have covered programs that reveal the password behind the Asterisks before [...]
Normally I would push you to a website or firefox plugin with group passwords like from bugmenot for access to NYT premium content. Not anymore, because The New York Times will stop charging for premium content. I figured this was going to happen a long time ago but, better late than never! Right? They will [...]
Great program for those times when you can not remember your saved password. It’s on your screen taunting you all asterisky star like… Staring up at you laughing to itself. Well fret no longer Admin, check out this windows only app to free your password from them stars! It worked for the three web pages [...]
of Course you do… Who wouldn’t right??
Well This is utterly amazing… I didn’t really grasp how cool it was until I used it… I dialed up 23907 and hit send text message and typed out my text query…ABOUT [topic]
about wikipedia
And I got back a link dumb quick which put me into wikipedia mobile with the [...]
One word – Portableapps.com . If you say it fast it is one word. Trust Me.
Don’t get me wrong for some serious fixing – data recovery action I get down with Knoppix. It always seems to get me out of a jam. I keep it on a CD in my bag for emergencies but [...]
For those of you that have heard of MythTv you know it is a free open source DVR software package. We love Free over @ AtA so we bring you this release for your perusal. You can not only achieve TiVo like DVR functionality it gives you so much more like an on screen [...]
Check it out – SYSinternals was aquired by Microsoft and they have been slowly integrating their tools into MS OS’s.
You can find all of their tools here.
We use a lot of these on a daily basis like WHOIS and PSTools, PSMon, PageDefrag, SDelete, PSKill, Handle, and PSInfo among others. These programs make the admin’s job [...]
For all you Linux gurus that detest the big bad Micro$oft and would never let any type of windows software on your machine, there is a way to easily preview your latest web creation as PC users will on Internet Explorer 7, IE6, and IE5. Just enter your URL and NetRenderer will spit back at [...]
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