If you were wondering what all of the downtime was about from 5 PM – 6 PM EST, we were updating our website. We have updated our layout for faster load times (your welcome dial-up) and now provide you with a “hide post” feature so as you browse you can skim through posts in an organized fashion. In addition, we are now sporting the famous “tag” system, which allows you to better find what your looking for. Each post will be labeled with these tags, and when you search you will find posts with similar results.

We encourage you to comment us on what you think of our improvements.

If your like me you would much rather use your keyboard then mouse when surfing the web. Windows users will use Ctrl, OS X users will use Cmd (The Apple key).

Searching Pages

• Push / then start typing what you’re looking for, this performs a basic search on the page
• Push ‘ then start typing a link you are looking for, this performs a search for all links on the page
• Ctrl/Cmd+F brings up the regular search box.

Opening Pages

• Shift+Enter will open a link in a new window
• Ctrl/Cmd+Enter will open a link in a new tab
• Alt+Enter when focus is on either location or search bar will open that page in a new tab

Navigational Toolbar

• Ctrl/Cmd+L will select the location bar.
• Ctrl/Cmd+K will select the search bar
• Backspace/Delete will “go back”
• Shift+Backspace/Delete will “go forward”
• Ctrl+Down/Up will change search engines

Miscellaneous

• F5 will Refresh the page
• Ctrl/Cmd+F5 will refresh the page ignoring cache
• Ctrl/Cmd+Tab will move to the next tab
• Ctrl/Cmd+[1-9] will switch to tabs 1-9
• Ctrl/Cmd+T will create a new tab
• Ctrl/Cmd+W will close the current tab
• F7 will switch to Caret Browsing

Want to look at more shortcuts? Click here!

Not all ninjas use swords. The most challenging ninjas are the ones who fight with words (reference AskANinja). With this in mind, some come armed with dry erase markers and are willing to mark up anything and everything! Here are a few alternative things you can do with a dry erase marker.

Write Notes on Cars (especially your friends)

Do you or your friends have a car? Surprise them by writing something on their windows, just be sure to give them some towels unless they may be stuck with your writing until they get home. This is a great way to ask that special someone to go to homecoming/prom/etc with you.

Remove Permanent Marker

Use this as a last ditch effort for getting that stubborn permanent marker spot off. Color over it with a dry erase marker and then wipe away. The solvents in the dry erase may be strong enough to remove that permanent marker aswell!

Leave a note on a tv/computer monitor if it has a glass screen!

Procrastinate much? Write it on your monitor or tv and don’t wipe it off until you do what you wrote. It will be sure to get on your nerves until you finish.

Label Frozen Foods

Got plastic bags or even tupperware containers? This is a great way to label them. If your like me you have so many leftovers you have to open each one to find out what it is. This is a great time saver!

Create a Dry Erase Card

Cover an index card with packing tape and you got yourself a dry erase card great for notes or writing down a phone number.

What makes Firefox better than Internet Explorer you ask? Besides for the enhanced security, Firefox has addons! From Chatzilla to Foxytunes and organizing downloads with the Download Statusbar, if you think of it, there is an addon for it.

Be sure to navigate over to the Mozilla website to see what other great addons Firefox has to offer!

Link!

UltraVNC is a tool that can be used to get help from someone, or to monitor other computers on your network. Here is one way to simply set it up to monitor another computer on your network, or who knows, maybe even mess with your brother a little bit.

First, you need to go to the computer you want to install the server on(aka monitor) and download the file. It is located here.

There are two was in which one can go about installing the file. You can either:

1. Install it by double clicking on the executable file and going through the steps.
2. Open the program through cmd with a few commands attached to it. Do this to install the file simply and silently

I believe most people know how to double click a file and install it, so I will go in depth with #2. First, open up cmd(command prompt) and navigate to the folder in which your installation file is in. Once you are there, copy and paste the filename of your file and paste it into command prompt. After that, you need to add a few extra codes. Once you are done your command should be as follows

UltraVNC-102-Setup.exe dir="C:\Program Files\VNC" /norestart /verysilent /log

Here is a screenshot of what it should look like.

Now the file is installed, so we need to set it up to run silently in the background. Open UltraVNC Server and a window should pop up. Add a password and check the boxes under the Misc Tab that says “DisableTrayIcon” and “Disable Client Options in Tray Icon Menu” Click Apply and Ok.

Now to add the file to startup, follow this.

Start > All Programs > UltraVNC > UltraVNC Server > Install WinVNC Service

Now you must get the IP address of the computer that you have the server installed on. To do this go to:

Start > Run > cmd and hit enter.

In cmd, type the command “ipconfig” and you’ll see their IP address.

Once you are done with that, the server is all set up! Now you can go back to your computer and open up the viewer, type in the IP address of the computer you installed the server on.

And Happy monitoring!

Apparently on December 4th, Microsoft is going to be introducing an update that depending on your age will allow anyone to browse your friendlist on Xbox Live! If you feel this violates your privacy follow these instructions courtesy of gamezone to keep you friendlist private!

1. Go to http://www.xbox.com/fof and login if needed
2. Now select the privacy level you want via the dropdown box.
3. Click Save