Tag: TWEAKS

Gmail interface tweaks tend to be all or nothing: you either keep the standard Gmail interface with all its bells, whistles and distractions, or you hide all the links and sidebar doodads at once. The Minimalist Gmail Chrome extension is different: it gives you control over 40+ individual elements of the Gmail interface, from the top bar all the way down to the footer. Minimalist Gmail is ...

A while back, Jason mentioned giving your Firefox performance a boost by limiting the length of time items are saved in history. At Mozilla Links, they've shared another handy tip from Mozilla developer Jeremy Orem. His advice: take a vacuum to your SQLite databases. Here's how to do it: Open the Firefox tools menu and click on error console. Paste the following command into the code ...

Wouldn't it be nice if our operating systems made New Year's resolutions? If that were the case, more than a few of them would make the resolution to "be more stable." Xtra Windows Stability is one piece of software that claims to help the stability of the Windows OS. By forcing important subsystems of Windows into separate processes (Desktop, Explorer, and Internet Explorer), you have a higher ...

Are you rocking Windows Vista RC2? Ready to start tweaking it (or tweak it a little more, as they case may be)? Take a look at these 10 expert tips and tweaks for Windows Vista from ZDNet's Ed Bott. Bott shows us how to add an extended shortcut menu, take quick screenshots with the Snipping Tool, get a quick system checkup, ditch Security Center nagging, and more. These are tips for power users, ...

Step 1: Download Firefox 2. Step 2: Bend it to your will. Lifehacker has printed a nice set of tweaks for Firefox 2 to make your browsing experience happer. There's six tweaks, including changing the tab scrolling behavior, modifying prefetching settings, and limiting its RAM usage. None of them are mind-blowing, especially to Firefox power-users, but there's few things that make me happier than ...

This is my third time downloading a Vista build, and admittedly, I had some qualms with Vista because of my slower hardware. Was it Vista's fault? No, it was mine. We had words, Vista promptly crashed again, and I retorted by wiping it out and installing XP once again. Sure I fiddled with Vista a bit when we were together, but it is vast and largely untamed, so I ended up with a molasses-slow ...

I've long been meaning to give Ubuntu a more serious look, and Adam Pash's Top 10 Ubuntu apps and tweaks over at Lifehacker is all the more motivation. Pash identifies ten ways you can improve your Ubuntu experience, including Automatix (application installation automator), Beagle (desktop search), Gnome Deskbar Applet ("a great app launcher and then some"), VLC (video player), Firefox (web ...