Stephan Miller on the originally named StephanMiller.com recently confessed to having posted an article or two directly into his blog archive with a historical date rather than letting it slip into the usual chronological flow of posts. His rationale was that…

Want to find out who is not your Facebook friend yet. It’s easy to list your friends but harder to remember which members you have pinged, poked, and messaged if you do a lot of that.

Amit Agarwal has a great tip that…

While searching for other reviews of OpenDNS, I discovered one site puzzling over whether it is possible to override the system’s “adult” filters on an ad hoc basis. Now, the site in question is a church site (and I won’t…

This week’s Saturday Quick Tip will save a lot of heartache when you comment on blogs or leave feedback on any website.

Once you have finished writing your opinion but before you click “submit”, select all the text, and make a…

Have you ever seen the following message when you open the Mozilla or Firefox browser?

I DNT HATE MOZILLA BUT USE IE OR ELSE

Several Sig Fig readers have contacted me recently because they have seen this message and other similar popup…

In 1999, a nineteen-year old student decided he wanted a fast and efficient way to share his favorite songs with his friends. But, he didn’t just want to make them compilations tapes on cassette. He wanted to do the sharing…

Is your list of usernames and passwords for all those web 2.0 sites you use getting longer and longer? Mine is! Not a day goes by without my having to create a new login. Wouldn’t it be great if we…

If you’ve got a relatively common name, like me, then don’t use it as the basis for your email address or logins. Instead, add a number before or after the name (you may forced to do this anyway, if someone…

Have you ever clicked a hit in Google only to be confronted with a message warning you that the site may harm your computer in some way?

Usually, this means Google’s bots have spotted some nasty ActiveX component or some errant…

Are we heading towards a wireless utopia? Will there come a point soon when you could use the same portable device to access your SOHO wireless? Could that same device connect to a WiFi hotspot in a cybercafé or airport?…

If your browser is feeling a little bloated and running slow, there are various things you can do to speed up Firefox, but you might also like to remove Firefox add-ons to release memory and make things move a little…

Some of my best ideas come to me when I’m out walking the dog. But, that’s usually when I don’t have a voice recorder or notebook to hand. Occasionally, I will have my phone with me, but I’ll usually be…

I finally upgraded my Sciencebase site to the latest version of Wordpress, it had been languishing at version 2.1.3 for far too long and there have been many security upgrades between that legacy version and the current version 2.3.3. It…

If you’re a blogger like me, do you find yourself waiting patiently each morning to see your Feedburner count chicklet update? If it’s a good day, you’ll see a little jump that offers a cheap thrill, if it’s not such…

I’ve written about how important it is to do a proper permanent (301) redirect from an old domain to your current site if you’re switching systems. E.g. If you’re moving from an old Blogspot Blogger blog to you self-hosted Wordpress blog,…

Welcome to the Saturday Quick Tip (SQT, for short). Here’s a very simple way to at least get a few extra RSS subscribers for your blog:

Ask your visitors to subscribe!

There, simple, very quick, obvious, but not always implemented. Just tell…

It’s the first of the month, this site now has about 150 feed subscribers. That’s a great sized group to work with in the Gladwellian tipping point sense. So, tell us about your problems and let’s see if, between us,…