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Firefox: How to Make Google Reader the Default RSS Reader for Subscribing to Feeds

Contributed by shamanstears on November 16, 2009 under Mozilla Firefox

If you are a Firefox user and Google Reader is your RSS feed reader, you normally have to take an extra step of choosing how you want the feed displayed, either on your Google homepage or in Google Reader. By making a couple of simple changes in the about:config settings, you can click on an RSS feed and preview it directly in Google Reader, one step away from subscribing to the feed.

Firefox: Enable AutoFill in URL (Address) Bar

Contributed by shamanstears on November 3, 2009 under Mozilla Firefox

By default Firefox has AutoFill disabled for the address bar, but if you like this functionality, you can enable it by following these steps.

Firefox: Enable Case Sensitive Searches When Using Find (Ctrl+F)

Contributed by shamanstears on under Mozilla Firefox

If you use Firefox’s Find (Ctrl+F) to find a term or name on a web page, you might try using case sensitive searches to make things easier. This is disabled by default but can easily be changed by taking the following steps.

Firefox 3.6: Enable Visual Previews When Using Ctrl+Tab (Windows Only)

Contributed by shamanstears on November 2, 2009 under Mozilla Firefox

By default, Ctrl+Tab will switch between open tabs in Firefox. But if you are running Windows 7, you should enable Visual Previews for a sexier way of navigating your open tabs.

Google Talk: How To Block Someone

Contributed by shamanstears on October 29, 2009 under Google

What if you’re no longer friends with one of your Google Talk contacts, how do you block them so that you don’t have to keep your status as Invisible? By following these steps, you can take away their option to chat with you without having to keep hiding.

Facebook: How To Get Only Status Updates on Your FB Home Page

Contributed by shamanstears on October 26, 2009 under Internet

Facebook’s News Feed (and Live Feed) tend to be way to much information to sift through. Everytime that one of your friends becomes someone else’s friend, it ends up on your home page. In fact, it seems that each time any of your friends does anything on Facebook, it is thrown onto your homepage. Here’s how to tame it down to only Status Updates.

Gmail: How to block a sender from your inbox

Contributed by shamanstears on October 18, 2009 under Google

Do you receive countless “bad” emails from someone that got your address? Maybe you gave your address to them and now regret it, or maybe they got it via some other method. While Gmail has no block functionality, you can keep these troublesome emails from appearing in your inbox by following these steps.

Twitter: Quickly List Followed Twitter Accounts That Follow You

Contributed by shamanstears on October 10, 2009 under Internet

Twitter displays how many people you are following and how many people follow you. But what if you want to find out how many people that you follow also follow your tweets? Here’s a quick and easy method.