Category Tech

How You Can Disable The Mac OS X Lion Startup Sound

Blog Post Written On: 28.08.2011

Aug28

I recently upgraded my iMac from Snow Leopard to Lion, and one thing I noticed after running the upgrade was that when I started the machine, the old Mac start-up chime was back.

When I had Snow Leopard installed, I used a small app which was added to your system preferences pane, called StartupSound.prefPane this was just what I wanted. The problem is though that StartupSound.prefPane is not compatible with Mac OSX Lion.

I needed another way of turning the Mac OSX Lion start-up sound off. continue reading »

FFMpeg Hosting

Blog Post Written On: 05.06.2011

Jun5

Setting up your own video site requires certain server components to be in place and can be a bit of a pain to setup manually.

Alternatively you could use a ready made FFMPeg host such as HostUpon. continue reading »

Firefox How To Clear Cache

Blog Post Written On: 15.05.2011

May15

This is a very quick guide to show you how to delete your browsing history or cache in the Firefox Internet browser.

Firefox 3.5 and Above – Windows

Click the Tools menu, then select Clear Recent History

From the Time range to clear: drop-down menu, you can select the desired range. Select Everything to delete your entire cache. continue reading »

How to Save Tabs When Closing Firefox 4

Blog Post Written On: 08.05.2011

May8

If you have a number of tabs open when you are running the Firefox 4 browser, and you then close the browser, you will find that the next time you open the browser, those tabs will not be saved.

There is a way to change this setting without installing any extensions. To do this, just follow these instructions. continue reading »

How to start Firefox in Safe Mode

Blog Post Written On: 28.04.2011

Apr28

There might come a time where you start having some problems with your installation of Firefox, and one way to troubleshoot the issues is by starting Firefox in safe mode. Doing this allows you to compare behavior with Firefox in normal mode and Firefox in safe mode.

To start Firefox in safe mode, just do the following, continue reading »