This isn’t so much a tip, as just a bit of fun. Open up your GMail account. Click “All Mail” to show all your messages. Now, click “Oldest” to take a trip back in time to your first Google Mail…

How many useless apps do you have running on your PC? If you’re like me there’s probably at least half a dozen. Winzip, for instance, costs money, spews out links all over the place and was superseded by Windows’ built…

Is that site you’re trying to visit really offline, or can other people get to it and it’s just your network setup that’s at fault? Without calling friends and asking them to check it out you can find out quickly…

Over on Adesblog.com a couple of very useful tips - one about getting the most out of StumbleUpon traffic, the other about saving face when you sell a site - got me thinking about how I could make the most of visitors…

My bank emailed me this week to remind me of how to keep my savings secure online. The headers looked genuine and it was properly addressed with decent grammar and spelling. So, at first glance it didn’t seem to be…

Tony Williams at ChemSpider let me know how he was getting on with my making room for more hard disk space tip. Very well, apparently. Once he’d cleared up some space he was then wondering about a quick and simple tool…

If you don’t have Adobe Reader installed on your machine and lack the user rights to install it, you could be stuck if someone emails you a PDF you really, really need to read.

This site (http://view.samurajdata.se/) offers a simple interface…

I’ve talked about the benefits of the OpenDNS system as an alternative way of connecting to websites rather than using your ISP’s DNS servers. It offers built-in phishing protection, filtering (adult content, for example), it can automatically correct URL typos you…

Ask not what social sites can do for you, rather what you can do for social sites.

The rest will follow.

Want to boost your Technorati rank without cheating or gaming the system? Check out the sites and blogs that have linked back to one of your posts and ping the Technorati blog directory with their URL to make sure the…

Here’s a list of the most popular posts from recent months on the Sciencetext blogging & browsing tips & tricks site. I’ve pretty much relied on my own initiative and the dedication of a lot of other folks on the…

I suspect lots of readers already do this, but if you want to make sure you can find your digital photos based on what each is a photo of, then when you import your images from your camera, instead of…

A neat Wordpress plugin called “Most Commented Posts”, could be very useful for bloggers planning a trip away who need to fill a post slot with something weighty and useful for their readers in advance of their trip. Actually, it’s…

If you’re in the US and run a website for business, then this free magazine could be just what you’ve been looking for to help you get the most from your site and so boost profits. It’s available free to…

Do you do a lot of cutting and pasting? Of course, you do! Who doesn’t? You will, of course, know the frustration of using the standard Windows clipboard if you’re working with lots of text and graphics and cutting and…

“How to steal a wordpress theme” - that was one of the first search phrases of the New Year that brought several readers to the Sig Figs website. I suspect what those readers were after was a way to extract…

Did you ever see garbage in your Wordpress blog?

If you did, then double check that there isn’t a linespace at the top of the page before the first PHP command. Once you’ve removed that, clear your cache and refresh the…

What do you do when you’re not blogging or emailing? Tell your friends about the little things in your life and get more connected.

You can follow my twitterings at @sciencebase, and if you want to know how to pipe in…

Want to use Facebook without all that logging in nonsense. Then switch to Firefox and install the Greasemonkey script system. Now, head on over to the Greasemonkey userscripts page and install the Facebook Auto-Login script.

Finally, login to Facebook normally and allow Firefox…