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According to a lot of stats I’ve found online, Internet Explorer still holds the largest percentage of users. With Windows having the largest market share, this makes complete sense even though there are plenty of easy and free alternatives. Here are a few alternatives to IE for those looking for something new or those just wanting to play around with new web browser (try one or two, you might actually like them):

Firefox: I know, I know, everyone knows about Firefox (but you’d be surprised how many people don’t know about it). I hear a lot nowadays that Firefox is the IE killer and that it’s safer and so on… I…

OpenOffice is a great free alternative to Microsoft Office. For more information on OpenOffice check out my recent post Open Office- The [Free] Microsoft Office Alternative. However, if you already use OpenOffice on a daily basis, then you have probably noticed how slow it loads. Here is how to speed up the load time:

1.) Launch OpenOffice - It does not matter which of the subprograms you open.

2.) Click ‘Tools’ and then select ‘Options’.

3.) Select the ‘Memory’ from the list on the left side.

4.) Under the ‘Graphics cache’ subheading, change the settings to the following:

• Use of OpenOffice.org - 128MB
• Memory per object - 20.0MB

5.) Under the ‘Cache for inserted objects’ subheading, change the settings to the following:

• Number of objects - 20

Here is what it should look like…

I thought I’d change Mac Monday a bit this week and talk about one of Apple’s great products: the iPhone. What could possibly come next? How could they make the iPhone any better? I for one, do not own an iPhone and it’s not because I don’t want one. Unfortunately the price and the small disk size has postponed my purchase for a little while. I have, however, come across some interesting news and rumors that I’d thought I’d share:

• We might be seeing a 3g iPhone pretty soon. While the WiFi on the iPhone works extremely well, when you aren’t near a WiFi connection things are just too slow. The 3g network will bring ‘broadband’ speed to

Are you a web designer who runs Linux but needs to test websites using Internet Explorer? Maybe you are an “average” computer user who wants to switch to Linux but still has a few sites that only work in IE. Whatever the case is, if you need to run Internet Explorer in Linux try using IEs 4 Linux.

IEs 4 Linux is the simplest way to install and run IE in Linux. With IEs 4 Linux you don’t have to worry about configuring Wine, running a VM or any of that geeky nonsense. In fact, you don’t even have to compile it from source. All you do…

Having a single program scan your computer for software updates is built into both Mac OS X and Linux. In fact, most Mac and Linux users probably don’t think much of this luxury until they try to update a Windows machine. I have dozens of software titles installed that constantly need updated and this is how I do it.

As I’m sure some of you know, Filehippo is a website that allows you to download free software. They have an excellent selection of software and everything is easy to find. If you aren’t sure what a certain program is, not only does Filehippo have a description…

For the past couple months I’ve been having my desktop background change randomly. With my mass amount of pictures (Ferraris, Space Shuttles, and satellites) changing every 5 minutes, I decided to go on the hunt for a program that would allow me to do something even cooler. I came across a neat little program called ‘Wallsaver‘ and decided to give it a try. With Wallsaver you can easily select any Mac screen saver and set it as your desktop background. While this has no practical use, I usually use it to wow my fellow Mac users.

One of the main things I like about Wallsaver is that it is so easy to turn

In Gnome, you can set the top and bottom tool bars to be transparent, which is great if you wallpaper is a light color. The ‘Applications’ ‘Places’ ‘System’ buttons along with the date and time are all in the standard black font. I, however, like using a dark background as my desktop wallpaper. I didn’t like having white tool bars just so that I could read the text. Here’s how to change the text into whatever color you would like:

First, open the terminal and type:
gedit .gtkrc-2.0
Insert the following into the file that was opened:
style “panel”
{
fg[NORMAL] = “#ffffff”
# fg[PRELIGHT] = “#000000″
# fg[ACTIVE] = “#ffffff”
# fg[SELECTED] = “#000000″
# fg[INSENSITIVE] = “#8A857C”
# bg[NORMAL] = “#000000″
# bg[PRELIGHT] = “#dfdfdf”
#…