Comparable to the previous post about GreenPrint, HP offers a similar product to help reduce paper and toner waste. HP Smart Web Printing allows you to highlight what you want to print and basically crop from webpages what you want to print. You can then rearrange the clips to print how you want or to fit onto one page instead of multiple. It's less intrusive than GreenPrint … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2008
Make Thunderbird check all folders for new messages
I have my e-mail filter into a few different folders based on who the sender is. This lets me keep my inbox a little more organized and keeps listserv conversations separated into their own folders. The only problem with this setup was that I wasn't being informed that there were new messages arriving in these folders, only the inbox. I would have to manually click on each … [Read more...]
USB/Mapped drive conflict resolved with Windows XP SP3
The conflict between USB drives and mapped drives seems to have been resolved with XP's Service Pack 3. Previously, Windows would only assign USB drives to letters D-H. If these letters were already assigned to Mapped Network Drives the USB drive would not show up until a different drive letter was automatically assigned to it. Using a third-party software was the previous … [Read more...]
Decoding Codecs – GSpot
Comparable to a previous post using DirectShow Filter Manager, GSpot helps shine some light on mysterious codecs at work. While DSFM will show you what codecs are installed on your machine and what priority they are taking precedence for different file types, GSpot can show you advanced information about the codecs installed on your machine and those used to encode a … [Read more...]
There was an error starting Zotero
After installing the Public Fox extension to Firefox, the previously installed Zotero add-on began having problems. It would load the following error: "There was an error starting Zotero" with a yellow hazard triangle and exclamation mark on the Zotero logo in the status bar. If you disabled the Public Fox extension and restarted Firefox, Zotero started up without error. You … [Read more...]