Modern Street

No, not quite what you think it is. To me, the Web is still like a wild, wild west, where every cowboy and his horse have their own philosophy of web design! In a few hours web surfing, you’ll visit dozens of sites, some of which come up with ways of not “behaving” in a sensible manner.

Thankfully, things have changed somewhat compared to say, 5 years ago, due to Web 2.0 influence. But should you still bump into these common annoyances, Firefox gives you some tools to put these pages in their place – if you know how to do it. So, here are a few easy (but often overlooked solutions): Read the rest of this entry »

Recently, I spent a lot of time looking for a new camera to carry around – a compact travel zoom if you may. I’m not a professional photographer, and have no ambition of being one, but I wanted a good camera that wasn’t bulky or heavy, and could take decent, if not great images.

After days of looking around and trying out many cameras, I whittled down my choice to a few models. While I see the evolution of compact cameras as that of compacting DSLR technology, the standard of most compact cameras still has some way to go.

So my philosophy is whatever we get in the meantime should just be considered as interim cameras, until camera manufacturers can lessen this very conspicuous gap. Right now, the Ricoh CX1, Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ7, Canon PowerShot SX200 IS and Fujifilm F200 EXR stood out as being the main cameras to watch in this group of mid range compacts, which was my principle search. Read the rest of this entry »

After my last post about correcting a low disk space warning by moving and storing your user files on a secondary partition, I noticed that I did not mention the fact that is possible to relocate your XP created system files. This can be particularly useful when you are already familiar with saving everything to My Music, My Videos, or My Documents in general. Read the rest of this entry »

When disk space is running low on your computer you might be thinking ‘I need a bigger hard drive’.  That is definitely the case for some people who are still running on 10 or 40 Gig hard drives but for the average person with a computer that was built in the past 2 years you likely have a hard drive that is closer to 100 GB or more in size.

So why are you getting low disk space warnings? Most new computers are formatted in such a way that the large hard drive is partitioned into smaller pieces; this means that your one hard drive is behaving as if it’s 2 or more, smaller hard drives. Read the rest of this entry »

The fault tolerance of all Windows operating systems is pretty well zero. If the registry becomes corrupt your computer cannot run, let alone start! Because of this extreme dependence on the registry, Windows implements an all or nothing guarantee in its registry. What this means is that if you are in the process of editing a registry key and your system suddenly turns off, or you close the window, or for any other reason the changes you are making were not finished, Windows will revert to the old registry settings. Read the rest of this entry »

In these economic times, more people are turning to the Web to create extra income streams, but a common mistake they are making is expecting to make money in the long term without wanting to spend a dime, or else committing to very little expenditure on getting a credible domain name and hosting!

Think about it. A real “offline” business in the brick and mortar world would typically need a start up capital of at least a few thousands dollars. Yet, why are most people reluctant to apply the same mindset – for an “online” business, even though in most cases you don’t have to spend thousands to get started? Read the rest of this entry »