Wednesday, January 28, 2009

How to Delete Words from your Custom Mozilla Firefox Dictionary

How to Delete Words from your Custom Mozilla Firefox Dictionary

I recently added a misspelled word to my Mozilla Dictionary and had a heck of a time figuring out how to delete it.

Below you'll find a picture-by-picture, step-by-step guide to removing your mistake.

Step 1:

Paste the following code into your Windows Start Menu Search function or use the Run function.

%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

firefox profile

Step 2:

Open your Profile Folder and look for the following file:

persdict.dat

persictdotdat

Step 3:

Open the file using Notepad. Open the Edit Menu and Click Find or Press ctrl+f to open the find box.

find

Step 4:

Punch the word in, press find, delete the word.

delete

Step 5:

Save your work.

save


I kinda sucked with the picture guide so here's a step-by-step, no picture walkthrough to removing your misspelled words from the Mozilla Firefox Dictionary:

1. Post the following code in the Run/Search menu:
%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

2. Find your profile folder and locate the following file:
persdict.dat

3. Open file with notepad (or other text editor)

4. Find misspelled word. Delete misspelled word.

5. Save.

6. WIN!

Monday, January 26, 2009

How to Resize Images on Blogger

How to Resize Images on Blogger

I didn't really think about doing it this way until I had two pics I wanted to appear bigger on my blog. I used the Compose Drag Resize Method but couldn't line them up. After 15 minutes of trying I had a light bulb moment. Using the Edit HTML option, you can punch in the size manually and skip the headaches of the drag tool.

Step by Step:


Step 1:

Upload your images to blogger. Notice the little resize tab thing. Even though it's very tempting, avoid using it. Get out of Compose Mode and head to Edit HTML.

manually resize images on blogger

Step 2:

Now that you're in HTML, look for the width and height of each image (underlined below). Change the numbers to whatever size you want, be sure to leave the px. Just highlight the numbers and replace. Press PUBLISH POST.

manually resize images on blogger

Step 3:

View your post as great success.

manually resize images on blogger

Saturday, January 10, 2009

How to Add your Blog to your Google Webmaster Tools Account

How to Add your Blog to your Google Webmaster Tools Account

This tutorial will show you how to Add your Blog to your Google Webmaster Tool Account and verify it so you get full access to all the features.

It's really easy once you go through it once.

Let's get started.

Step One:

Sign into your Google Webmaster Account (https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dashboard), put your Blog URL (with .blogspot.com in it) in the box, then press Add Site.

Google Webmaster Sign Up Tutorial 1

Step Two:

When you arrive at the next page, press the "Verify Site" button/link. You need to Verify your site to get the full benefits of Google Webmaster Tools.

Google Webmaster Sign Up Tutorial 2

Step Three:

Press the drop down box and select "Add Meta Tag" as your verification option.

Google Webmaster Sign Up Tutorial 3

Step Four:

Highlight the code that pops up and copy it.

Google Webmaster Sign Up Tutorial 4

Step Five:

Go to your Blogger Dashboard, click on the "Layout" tab, then click on the "Edit HTML" tab.

Google Webmaster Sign Up Tutorial 5

Step Six:

Place your cursor right after the > in the "head" code.

Google Webmaster Sign Up Tutorial 6

Step Seven:

Press Enter and open up a black space after the code.

Google Webmaster Sign Up Tutorial 7

Step Eight:

Paste your copied Blogger Webmaster Tools Meta Code into the blank space.

Google Webmaster Sign Up Tutorial 8

Step Nine:

After you've placed the Meta code, Press "Save Template"

Google Webmaster Sign Up Tutorial 9

Step Ten:

Double check that the below page is the one that loads after your press "Save Template" Sometimes Google fails to save properly and you'll have to press back and re-paste the code.

Google Webmaster Sign Up Tutorial 10

Step Eleven:

After you've saved the template, head back to your Google Webmaster Tools account and click "Verify Site"

Google Webmaster Sign Up Tutorial 11

Step Twelve:

SUCCESS!

Google Webmaster Sign Up Tutorial 12

Saturday, January 3, 2009

How to Add New Folders to Your Windows Vista Start Menu

How to Add New Folders to Your Windows Vista Start Menu

I'm not going to lie. I didn't know how to do this. I tried everything. But couldn't figure it out. It literally took me months to finally (accidentally) figure out how to add folders to the Vista Start Menu. Anyways, rather than forget in a week or so, I created this little tutorial.

Step One:

Right-Click on the Start Menu.



Step Two:

Left-Click on "Open All Users"

Vista Menu Creation Tutorial

Step Three:

A folder will open. Double-Click on the "Programs" folder.

Create Start Menu Vista

Step Four:

Once inside the "Programs" folder, right-click anywhere in the folder, left-click the "new" menu, left-click the "folder" option.

Vista Start Menu

Step Five:

Name your folder.

Not Britney Spears

Step Six:

Great success.

Canada is AWESOME

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

How to Safely Remove a USB from your Computer (Vista Edition)

How to Safely Remove a USB from your Computer (Vista Edition)

1. Double Click the Safely Remove Hardware Button


2. Highlight the USB Mass Storage Device
3. Press Stop



4. Select USB Mass Storage Device Again
5. Press OK



6. Press OK on the Pop Up Message
7. Safely Remove USB Device and be on your merry way.

Friday, November 28, 2008

How to Block Users on Forums/Boards

How to Block Users on Forums/Boards

If you're like me, you like to post on forums. Posting on forums can be great fun, but sometimes there's that certain poster you just don't want to deal with, ever. If you're like me, you are that poster, and this guide will be helping people block you, if you're not like me however (and possibly want to block me) this guide will teach you the ways of the block.

Step 1:

Go to your user control panel and select "Edit Ignore List"

Block Step 1

Step 2:

Type the name of the user you want to block in the text box and click submit.

Block Step 2

Step 3:

Laugh at the blocked poster.

Block Step 3

Very simple. Now you don't have deal with that idiot "hotnewton" anymore.

:)

GIF images do not animate in Firefox

GIF images do not animate in Firefox

If you are using Firefox and can't get your GIF animations to animate on-screen, follow this simple guide to help set things right.

1. In the Location bar, type about:config and then press enter. (The about:config "This might void your warranty!" warning page should appear, just click "I'll be careful, I promise!" and move forward. As long as you follow this guide you have nothing to worry about.

2. In the about:config page, type image.animation_mode in the Filter text are. This determines how to animate GIF images. Possible animation options are:
  • none: animated images will never play.
  • once: animated images will play once and then stop animating.
  • normal: (default) animated images will play as normal.
3. Double check that the value of image.animation_mode is set to normal, the default setting.

4. If it's not set to normal, change the value by right-clicking on the preference name, going to modify in the menu, and typing normal into the text box.

5. You can also use this guide to make animations only animate once or not animate at all. It's pretty simple.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

How much is in a roll of Quarters, Dimes, Nickels, and Pennies?

How much is in a roll of Quarters, Dimes, Nickels, and Pennies?

A question that has been asked far too many times, memorize the answer, because I'm only going to post this once.

Quarters = $10.00 or 40 quarters
Dimes = $5.00 or 50 dimes
Nickels = $2.00 or 40 nickels
Pennies = $ .50 or 50 pennies

If you're Canadian, you might also be interested in this:

Loonies = $25.00 or 25 loonies.
Toonies = $50.00 or 25 toonies.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

How to Resize Custom Emoticons on MSN - Part 2

How to Resize Custom Emoticons on MSN - Part 2
or How to Create a Two Frame GIF Image Using GIF Animator


This is a step-by-step guide to help you make your two frame GIF images for use with MSN Messenger Custom Emoticon Creation. You are going to have to click on the images to see them full size, sorry about that.

I picked this photo to work with:

Imagine That

I turned it into this photo (you will see no difference, but if you save both, you'll notice the different file format):

Imagine That GIF

Step One:

Open GIF Animator Software and click Add Image in the File Menu.



Step Two:

Select the file you wish to work with and press "open"



Step Three:

Take a look at the picture. Not really a step itself, but you can resize the image, rotate, color, trim, etc.



Step Four:

Right Click on the Image in the Frame bar and select Duplicate Image.



Step Five:

You'll now notice that there are two images in the frame box. Success.



Step Six:

Go back to the File Menu and select Save File As - GIF File.



Step Seven:

Name Your File.



Step Eight:

Create your Custom Emoticon (tutorial coming soon) and take a look. In this pic I made one of each, stationery and animated. You'll notice the size difference. In hindsight, I should've used a different image as the writing is still too small, but you get the idea.



I tried to make this pretty straight forward.

I hope I've helped.

Let me know if you need anything else.

Thanks for reading.

How to Resize Custom Emoticons on MSN - Part 1

How to Resize Custom Emoticons on MSN - Part 1
Resize MSN Emoticons
Resizing custom emoticons - Mess with MSN Messenger
How to stop MSN Messenger from Resizing your Custom Emoticons
MSN Custom Emoticon Resize Issues
How to Make Your own MSN Emoticons That Aren't Tiny
Anybody who uses MSN Messenger to chat with friends will most likely know of the problem I am writing about. When making custom Emoticon images, you can only have them as 19x19 pics. 19x19 isn't big enough for anything other than the simplest characters, but we are stuck with it.

The strangest thing in my eyes is the fact that animated Emoticons are given the 50x50 size limit while the stationary Emoticons are stuck at 19x19. The logic behind it doesn't make sense, I understand that animated Emoticons need to be larger to allow you to see the animation clearly; I just don't see any reason for the limit on the stationery Emoticon images. Maybe it's just me, but I doubt it, I've seen countless people ask how to make the custom Emoticon images bigger, and I've seen those same people told that there is absolutely no way to do it.

I did some searching, I messed around, and I finally figured out how to make your Custom Made Stationery Emoticon images bigger. It's incredibly simple, so simple that I am sure just about anybody can do it.

The sizing issue lies within MSN itself and how it detects pictures used for Emoticons. One frame images get the 19x19 size, multiple frame images get 50x50 size. I tried to change the files to .GIF files in hopes of tricking MSN, but it actually looks for multiple frames, and not just image type.

To get past the sizing problem, you simply need to use a GIF Animator to create a multiple frame image file. It might sound confusing, but it's simple, you load the picture into whatever GIF Animator you choose, duplicate the frame, save the file as a .GIF image, then use the saved file to create your Emoticon.

Once you've done that, test out your Emoticon and enjoy the 50x50 size you now have.