Blocking Ads with Adblock Plus FireFox Plugin

One of the main reason that I love Firefox is because of all the plugins that are available out there for free. Here's another Firefox plugin that I find really useful -- the Adblock Plus.

"Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them. Right-click on a banner and choose “Adblock” from the context menu — the banner won’t be downloaded again."

Unless you like reading ads, or I would recommend you to install this plugin right away and get rid of all the annoying ads!

Googlemail and Gmail

Most Gmail user probably don't know about this: when you register an account on Gmail, you actually get 2 email addresses: one with gmail.com domain, and another with googlemail.com. So if your Gmail address is Jonny@gmail.com, anyone sending an email to Johnny@googlemail.com will go to your inbox as well.

To take advantage on this, you can give one of the email address (Johnny@googlemail.com for example) to only family members or close friends of yours, and publish another address (Johnny@gmail.com) to the public. Then you can set filter to direct all emails that sent to googlemail.com into a separate folder so that you will never miss them!

Vista Command

If you are using Windows Vista, here's a handy sidebar gadget that you probably want to try: Vista commands.

It allows you to call or run services like msconfig, Snap shoot, Disk Manager, Device Manager, Services, Admin Tool, Printers, Network, and other third party applications with one click from the desktop.

Compatible Windows 7 as well. Available for download here.

Auditorium - Cool Musical Puzzle

Here's another time waster that's highly addictive -- the Auditorium.

To complete a level, you will need to move the round objects around to direct the flowing "audiovisual particles" to the musical audio containers. Okay.. you might not know what I am talking about here.. just follow the link above to enter the game and you will know how to play it. But be warned that this is another addictive game that can waste lots of your time on!

Google Search Tips

We use Google all the time because it's an awesome search engine. It brings up the answer that we are looking most of the time. But until you watch the following video, I am pretty sure that there are some Google tricks that you don't know about... well that's the case for me at least.. so here you go a video interview with Matt Cutt (Google senior engineer):

Play Online Flash Game in Full Screen with Flash Game Maximizer Plugin

If you are like me who like to waste time on online flash game, I would like to recommend this Firefox plugin to you -- the Flash Game Maximizer.


Here's what the plugin does:

"Click a button or hotkey to reload Flash content in the entire browser window. You can then resize the window (and the Flash content along with it) as you like, including playing your favourite games in true full-screen mode."

I have tried the plugin myself.. works great!

Gmail Security Flaw?

MakeUseOf.com, one of my favorite blog, was recently hacked. Their domain name was stolen by a hacker whom they believe to have found a security flaw in Gmail, and gain access to their domain from there. This is what Aibek, the guy behind MakeUseOf.com, wrote:

"The hacker did access my Gmail account and set up some filters there that eventually helped him to get access to our GoDaddy account. What I didn’t know is how he managed to do that. Was it a security hole in Gmail? Or was it a keylogger on my PC? I wasn’t sure about it. After the incident I scanned my system with a number of malware removals and didn’t find anything. I also went through every running process as well. All semed to be clean.

So, I am inclined to believe the problem was with Gmail."

Check out the full post from Aibek here: BREAKING: New Gmail Security Flaw. More Domains Get Stolen!

Gmail is my favorite email service. Although I don't own a popular domain like Aibek do, I certainly hope all my private emails are secure with Gmail. Hopefully the Gmail team from Google will look into this and fix the security flaw as soon as possible!