How to save/print a document as PDF
For Mac users, this is as simple as hitting Command + P and select Save as PDF. Windows users, you are not so lucky, Windows does not have this function built-in. As usual, we’re going to have to install a third party application work our way around this limitation.
We have a wide range of selection to help overcome the issue, but we’re going to use the cheapest and quickest one around: CutePDF Writer.
PICASA: A Revolutionary Tool To Organize Photos
Picasa is a photo organizer that comes with simplicity, easygoing and dozen features to improve the editing, organizing and sharing options. It is one of Google applications that’s very suitable for Google services user such as Blogspot, Gmail, Picasa web albums and growing widely for third applications for sharing pictures. Having all your photos in one place and watch it into elegant albums by date means no more time wasted for searching photos in your harddrive. With its strong capabilities, it’s has the best price tag: FREE. I like that :D
Enable Growl notifications on iChat
Being the default messenger app on Mac, iChat sure is pretty and well integrated to the system. However, unlike AdiumX, iChat does not show Growl notifications (wow I’m speaking alien language aren’t I? Mac users should understand this, I think).
I’m not sure if it’s an iChat issue or Growl issue, but we have a solution :)
GreaseKit – Use GreaseMonkey’s User Scripts in Safari
GreaseMonkey is a very powerful Firefox add-on that lets us make changes to the website we visit on-the-fly by installing user scripts. In human language, that means we have more control over the websites we visit. For example, we can add a ‘download’ link to Youtube video pages and remove annoying quizzes from our Facebook homepage.
Neat innit? The problem is: GreaseMonkey cannot be installed in Safari, Mac OSX’s default browser (and by far my favorite one). Solution: GreaseKit. Here’s how.
Installing Multiple Versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer
Now you might think why the heck would I want to install different versions of web browsers to my computer? Here’s why: you’re a web developer.
That being said, you need to check your website/web app in popular browsers: Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Firefox 1, 2, 3, Chrome, Safari and Opera. Installing Chrome, Safari and Opera is a no-brainer, but those multiple versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox can be tricky. Here’s how we can do it.