No Gmail Signature Formatting?

Come on, what's the deal? I can't even create a simple table to lay out some info? Anyone know of a solution? I know lifehacker had better gmail html signature, but that was before the new gmail. Anything now?

Missing Windows Vista Snipping Tool?

I know that Windows Vista comes with a handy dandy snipping tool, but, when I click the "orb" and start typing snipping, I get nothing.

Turns out, that the snipping tool is part of the tablet PC options, that I, uh, uninstalled because I do not have a tablet PC. I am crazy, I know.

Anyway, just thought that I would save some people the same headache I had.

To reinstall:

• Click the "orb"
• Control Panel
• Programs
• Turn Windows features on or off
• Look for the tablet PC options check mark box, check it
• Wait

Now, click the orb, type snipping, press enter, and up it comes!

Note: I read that the snipping tool is unavailable on Windows Vista Home Basic, but cannot confirm as I use premium.

Google Image Labeler

Just found this neat time killer. Google Image Labeler.

What it is:

You get partnered with a random person, then are shown images. You label them based upon what they are. If you and your partner correlate, you score points. It shows you images for two minutes. If you don't know, you can pass. It also has some "off limit" labels, which I suppose are what other people have agreed what the image is and they want fresh labels.

I find it a great time waster and it's fun gathering points!

No Remote Desktop in Vista Home

This is more of a rant than anything else. For anyone out there searching on how to enable remote desktop for any version of vista home, stop. It is not supported. However, you can still use VNC http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net. VNC works, just not as peppy as remote desktop.

My Firefox Addons (Extensions)

A listing of the firefox addons I use and consider a must have to complete my browsing experience. Yeah, it adds some bloat, but add functionality that outweighs the bloat. Questions? Comments? Know of a killer addon I left out? Am I totally jacked up? Let me know by posting comments!

UPDATED FOR FIREFOX 3



Better Gmail
- Make Gmail Better with user suggested features
ColorfulTabs
- Make Multiple tabs easier on the eyes
Colorzilla
- Grab the exact color of an object on a webpage (web developing tool)
Extended Copy Menu
- To grab info (text) without all the fancy formatting
Customize Google
- Add some nifty features to Google Search
Del.icio.us Bookmarks
- Social Bookmarking site Tool, Basically, keep all your bookmarks in sync no matter where you are at
Extended Statusbar
- Add some detail to status bar like CPU usuage and Memory Usuage
Greasemonkey
- Allow use of user created customizations for popular websites (post of favorites coming later)
Hide Menubar
- Gain screen real estate by hiding the menubar (You can show it quickly by pressing ALT key)
Locationbar2(Squared)
- Makes address bar more readable by breaking it up into sections
MeasureIt
- Measure on screen actual pixel width of elements (Web Developing Tool)
PDF Download
- Add extra options when viewing a PDF file such as save, view in browser, etc
StatusbarEx
- Some extra detail such as page load time, image total, transfer rate, etc
StumbleUpon
- To truly surf the web. Give it your interests, press stumble, find awesome sites related to your interests, user contributed.
Web Developer
- Tool to see DIV borders, table layouts, extract CSS, validate page, etc (Web Developer Tool)
Stop Autoplay
- To stop the annoying autoplay songs like on MySpace or from stumbles (sometimes this extension causes issues with certain sites, I leave it disabled until I go on facebook or myspace)

Other:

Turn off IP6 DNS Lookup
- Speed up DNS Lookups
1. In the Firefox Location bar, enter about:config.
2. In the displayed list, enter network.dns.disableIPv6 in the Filter textbox.
3. Find the network.dns.disableIPv6 preference. The value should be true.
4. If the value is false, right-click it and select Toggle.
5. Close Firefox, then start it again, and try to connect.

Small Icons
- Gain Screen Real Estate
1. Right Click Toolbar, select "Customize", checkmark the small icons box.

Title bar, 1 toolbar, Statusbar
- Configuration to gain screen real estate
1. Right Click toolbar, select "Customize", drag buttons to and fro, make pretty


Foldershare to keep in Sync (No Google Gears!) - (Windows Only)
- Keep your Firefox extension in sync from PC to PC, but do not install Google Gears as this will break it (at the time of this writing - too long file names) Ironic using a Microsoft product to help a direct Microsoft competitor.

-Z