How to remove duplicate icon from Launchpad

Well, it was pretty annoying to find two Skype icons in my Launchpad after I’ve upgraded to the latest version. When I click and hold on one of those icons, the icons become wiggle, but there are no delete signs on the top left corner (because Skype is not from Mac App Store).

After a few googling, I’ve found out this simple solution. Thanks to Baryon from MacRumors Forums.

• Go to Applications folder, Right click on Skype, Choose Move to Trash.
• In my case, both Skype icons are gone from Launchpad. If you still see Skype icon in your Launchpad, click on it (Choose Yes when it ask you if you want to remove it).
• Go to Trash, right click on Skype, Choose Put Back.

That’s it, only one Skype icon show up in my Launchpad now. Your mileage may vary, feel free to post it in comments.

How long your PC has been running

Do you want to know how long your PC has been up since last reboot or shutdown? Well, in Mac or Unix variant, you can use uptime command.

How about Windows users? There is similar command too.

Go to Start Menu –> Run –> cmd

Then type : systeminfo

As in above image, you can see your system up time. Easy peasy!

Source : Technet

How to make the game faster in TinyTower

Well, I’ve been playing TinyTower, a free iOS game in which players build up a tower from just a Lobby and a basic elevator to 145 fully stocked floors. The game is very addicted, so much so that I have to start looking for cheats to stop myself from playing.

Here is my favorite method, which is very simple and works in most games. I called it, Time Machine. Basically, you just change the clock of your device, so that you don’t have to wait for a few hours as requested by the game.

I will show you step by step, however please note that I’m not responsible for any side effects you may have on your device by following the methods here.

If you are new to the game, please follow the built-in tutorial from game and play without cheats until you feel the need to do so.

• First you just build new floor, re-stock items for your shops. You will see like the screenshot below. You’ll have to wait 13H 29M to complete a floor and 6H 37 M to restock items in cyber cafe.

• Press Home button, Go to Settings and put your device into Airplane mode.

• Then go to General –> Date & Time

• If you have selected Set Automatically switch in ON position, move it to OFF. Then Choose Set Date & Time

• From current date, move it to next day.

• Then Go back to TinyTower. Bingo! (You’ll be greeted with your new shop has been completed message).

This is not the end of the story. You’ll need to know how to put back your clock to normal time. One important thing to take note here is you’ll have to make sure there is no new floor or re-stocking in progress, otherwise you game will lose track of time.

• Go back to Date & Time setting Settings –> General –> Date & Time –> Set Date & Time (if you just recall Settings icon from iOS multitask bar, it should bring you straight where you’ve left off)

Then move back the date to original date.

That’s it! Quite straightforward, isn’t it?

Source : TinyTower Wiki

Firefox about:config settings in GUI

Firefox provides access to ton of settings under about:config. However, some users will find it not too user-friendly.

If you want to access those extra settings without having to deal with text based config, there is Firefox addons called, Configuration Mania. Here are a few screenshots of that plugin.

As long as you have Firefox version 4 and above, you’ll be able to install this plugin.

How to config Firefox to open new pages in tab or windows?

Well, this is actually very very easy thing. But, as one of my friend couldn’t find this option himself, I feel that I should be telling my readers too. If any of my readers overlook this option, now you can config your Firefox to do exactly what you want to do.

Just go to Tools –>> Options.

After that click on the Tabs. You will see “New pages should be opened in:”, there are two options to choose.

Choose the options that you want and click OK. As you can see, you can configure other options such as Always show the tab bar, Warn me when closing multiple tabs or etc. Make yourself familiar with Options menu in applications, it could help you customize the applications as the way you want it.

Download whole website easily

Sometimes it is quite frustrating that you can’t browse your favorite website while you’re overseas and the hotel will charge you ridiculous amount for wifi access.

If you’re a webmaster and you may want to show off your website in a place where there is no internet? That’s where the need to download whole website comes in. HTTrack is the best tool for this job and it is open-sourced and absolutely free. So far, it works without any glitches for me for copying the contents of an entire site.

How to view feedburner subscriber counts from blogs that don’t display

Well, we are very curious with our competitions. Sometimes, we really want to know how much of the subscribers do they have too? For me, I haven’t publicly shown my feed subscriber counts yet even though I am having a quite impressive number for me.

Well, anyway, if you want to view the feedburner counts of the blogs that don’t display, you might be able to see it if you’re lucky. In fact, lucky here means those blog owners should have got change of mind and should be stupid too.

Here’s how to achieve this.

This is my feed address.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/BridgeToNova

If you want to see my subscriber, you should type in the address bar as follow.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/BridgeToNova

What do you see now?

I’m not lying to you. You can’t see my counts because I know this trick and I’ve already prevented from it by deactivating in my feedburner dashboard. But hey, there are a lot of bloggers out there who don’t know this and you can check their feed counts.

How to disable UAC in Windows Vista

If you are using Windows Vista like me, you must be familiar with the following dialog box, don’t you? This is because of Windows Vista new addition security feature called User Account Control (UAC).

Some people gave up on Vista and return to XP because of UAC. Well, it is quite surprise to know that some people couldn’t figure out how to disable UAC and they simply blame on Microsoft. These people are really pathetic.

Let me show you how easy it is to disable UAC.

1. Simply go to Start Menu –>> Control Panel –>> User Accounts

2. After that simply click on Turn User Account Control on or off as shown in the picture below.

3. You will see the last time UAC dialog to click Continue.

4. And then rebooted your computer.

Simple, huh? Enjoy your Vista!

How to configure default Ctrl+Enter setting in Firefox

I have told you guys about how to type web addresses more quickly. Ctrl+Enter will fill you up .com. But what if you access to .net site more often and you want to change the default Ctrl+Enter to automatically fill you up .net not .com. How can you do it?

It’s easy just download URL Suffix Add-ons for Firefox. After installing the Add-ons, go to Tools –>> Add-ons. And then Choose the URL Suffix and click on Options.

You will see the URL suffix configuration dialog box as follow.

See? You could even configure for Enter behaviour, not just Ctrl + Enter. But I find it quite annoyance as most of the websites I surf are end with various suffix.

How to change Outlook startup folder

Microsoft Outlook display the Outlook Today page when you first start up since very earlier versions, but for me, it’s a quite useless page since I just want to read my email.

I always change Outlook default setting by digging into Advanced Options via Tools –>> Options and then change the default folder. Hey but there’s an easier way to do this.

Just click on the Customize Outlook today button on the upper right corner of your Outlook as in the following pic.

After that you will see the following screen.

Be sure to uncheck, “When starting, go directly to Outlook Today” checkbox. The default for these would make Outlook to go directly to your inbox. If you prefer to go Outlook to any other folder than your inbox, you can choose any folder you want by click on Choose Folders button.

Hope this tip would help you make more productivity.