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Posts tagged ‘Preferences’

Feb 17

Activate Night-Reading Mode For Any iOS App

If you are an information connoisseur, you probably have preferences for how you like your text formatted as you move through your daily feeds. Since we are now consuming an increasing volume of information on our mobile devices, finding ways to attractively present text on-the-go is a substantive issue.

The latest iteration of Apple’s e-book app, iBooks 1.5, introduced a new Night Theme designed to make text more legible in low-light conditions. Activated through the fonts menu, Night Theme takes the default white-on-black color scheme and reverses it, leading to less eye strain when reading in the dark. Other apps, such as Instapaper, have comparable modes.

If you find this reversal beneficial, and would like to utilize it in any iOS app, read on. Read more

Sep 2

Clean Up Firefox Preferences With eCleaner

As previously stated, Firefox has an excellent repository of high-quality extensions that can increase the utility of your web browsing sessions. The consequence of this abundance of options is that you may find yourself installing and uninstalling many extensions, subsequently creating a virtual mess in your Firefox installation (i.e., when you uninstall an extension, it usually does not remove the customized preferences it made to your browser).

Ironically, there is an extension that can address this issue. Read more

Jul 25

Use What’s That Preference To Lookup Firefox About:Config Preferences

Although Google’s Chrome now seems to get all the attention, Firefox is still a tried and true favorite for millions of people around the world. One of the unique features the browser offers over its competitors is the extensive amount of granular control you can exercise over how the app is configured (i.e., its about:config preferences). On the downside, this level of customizability can be overwhelming.

In conjunction with Mozilla’s MozillaZine database, What’s That Preference aims to help you become more educated on Firefox’s myriad configuration settings. Read more

Apr 25

Back To Basics: Web Browser Settings

This is the first entry in a multi-part series. Part 2

Often, I serve as free tech support for my family. While I’m troubleshooting their issues, I cannot help but notice that although they have been using computers for most of their lives, they are only experiencing a subset of what their PCs can do because they’re using techniques that greatly impede the speed and efficiency of their computing experience.

One reason that many people who are considered technologically literate appear to be so fluent is because they have mastered simple aspects of interacting with their PCs. Once this initial source of friction is removed, you can begin to unleash your computing potential.

So, today I am publishing the first entry in a new series entitled Back To Basics, which focuses on fundamental aspects of computing that, once committed to memory, will greatly increase your ability to utilize your tech. Read more