Ever worried about your upper and lower case? Well, I used to for reasons that will become clear, but I’m not so fussed these days. However, some bloggers find capitalization very much an ongoing concern.

According to Ryan Imel on ThemePlayGround:…

My wife was going on a trip, handed me her old 2 Gb USB stick type mp3 player and asked me to install Firefox with her Favorites, Thunderbird with all her settings and recent emails, and an office suite, with…

Sig Fig Exclusive Research News—Most of us want to be able to categorize, organize and generally filterize filter the vast quantities of email we receive as automatically as possible. There are various tools built into most email programs that allow some…

Regular commentator on Sciencetext, Hsien-Hsien Lei of DNA news blog eyeondna.com alerted me to the fact that the tabbed navigation on our sibling site Sciencebase.com spills over if users set a larger than default screen font for in their browser. In…

Ever written a research paper? Ever had to label each co-author with a mark to tie them to their specific institution in the address block? It’s a pain in the neck in Word as the program doesn’t seem to have…

Pownce, a kind of uber-Twitter with messaging, file sharing, and a few more additives besides offers the most politically correct sign-up form I’ve ever seen. Not happy with simply offering users the option to choose Male, Female, Not Saying as…

The Whois system is great for finding out details of a website’s admin and technical contacts and such like providing the owner of the domain has not made those facts private. But, one aspect of snooping on a website that…

How do you organize your digital photos? If you are like me you don’t, you simply accumulate gigabyte upon gigabyte of images you never get around to sorting or tagging, occasionally remember to back them up on to an external…

Wondering how to import Firefox bookmarks into your iGoogle or Google Desktop page? A quick search of the iGoogle widgets and stuff reveals the Google Bookmarks tool, which you can quickly add to your Google account page. But, there does…

Have you ever noticed that when you login in to your Google mail account, the server redirects you to the login page and kindly adds a little “s” to th http:// in the address bar, making it https://? Sounds good,…

Occasionally, you try to delete a file in Windows Explorer and the system tells you the file is in use or locked in some way and it won’t let you delete it. The usual message you see will be something…

How many times have you wished you could paste more than a single line into a search box or form in your browser? Well, now you can thanks to this very quick Firefox hack. Actually it is not a hack…

Tech writer Wayne Smallman, whose name graces these pages every so often, has hit on something that should be immediately obvious to anyone who has used more than a couple social networking and bookmarking sites (which is most of us)…

On occasion, I have used the html <pre> tab to preformat an error message or other standout text in a post. At least one Sciencetext reader was intrigued as to how I managed to wrap the text rather than it…

Have you received an email that begins something like this?

Good day.

Your family member has sent you an ecard from "some-odd-address.com.hk".

Send free ecards from some-odd-address.com.hk with your choice of colors, words and music.

Your ecard will be available with…

Previously, I’ve discussed the numerous cons and a few of the pros of getting a blog post on Digg and having that sudden traffic spike that such social bookmarking sites can bring. But, on the whole, being Dugg is quite a…