What do web designers call the slideshowy flipbook of stories that appears in the upper left corner of these news websites? Are there effective ways to block or replace these (browser plugins, Greasemonkey scripts, etc.)?
posted by gum on Jun 27, 2009 - 4 answers

What do you call this ugly form of conjoined sentence, and am I right in thinking it's ungrammatical? [more inside]
posted by electric_counterpoint on Dec 3, 2008 - 38 answers

Using picasa 3 to make a movie (as per this). The rendering will take over 1 hour. How to get rid of the useless "Making Movie" tab. [more inside]
posted by signal on Nov 24, 2008 - 0 answers

I am using a borrowed Toshiba Tecra M7 laptop, and three phantom dropshadow rectangles have appeared on the screen. They overlay any application I open and are annoying. Does anyone know how to get rid of these? I've turned off all the desktop effects I could find. Thanks!
posted by mecran01 on Nov 20, 2008 - 7 answers

Incredibly annoying IMAP problem - Any ideas? [more inside]
posted by Zinger on May 8, 2008 - 6 answers

What the blazes is making my hard drive work so hard? [more inside]
posted by Zinger on Mar 6, 2008 - 19 answers

I'm experiencing a strange bug on my macbook pro: with little cause (perhaps a slight mouse gesture, though I have no mouse gesture programs installed), the os will switch to the Stickies application (and sometimes iTunes, when I quit Stickies). I can't figure out what's going on. [more inside]
posted by pinto on Jan 9, 2008 - 3 answers

Windows XP / Explorer: MPG and WMV file thumbnails constantly crash Explorer, sometimes taking the entire OS with it. How can I fix this? [more inside]
posted by bradn on May 11, 2007 - 2 answers

Why is Microsoft Word suddenly marking correctly spelled words as misspelled? [more inside]
posted by mauglir on Jan 9, 2007 - 5 answers

Any way around these two (Mac) iTunes annoyances? First, iTunes apparently cannot remember my password for "Check for Purchases". Second, iTunes always jumps the focus back to the next song it's playing despite how much further down I'm browsing and adding songs to playlists. [more inside]
posted by ontic on Dec 11, 2006 - 11 answers

It drives me effin' crazy when people say "um" while speaking. Yet, curiously enough, other forms of verbal static (e.g. "uhh," "like," etc.) don't bother me in the slightest. What's the deal with that? And is it possible to get past my severe distaste of other peoples' verbal static?
posted by yalestar on Dec 4, 2006 - 16 answers

How do I turn off this annoying Outlook feature? [more inside]
posted by zooropa on Oct 12, 2006 - 8 answers

How do I get a bird to stop sitting on my side mirrors and shitting all over my car? [more inside]
posted by mathowie on Apr 6, 2006 - 31 answers

Is there a way to keep TV commercials from being so much louder then the program that I'm watching? [more inside]
posted by devilshgrin on Mar 15, 2006 - 30 answers

Ever get a sudden and annoyingly strong and tenacious throat tickle that forces you into spasms of dry coughing (being that there's nothing to cough up), in a futile attempt to relieve said tickle? Yeah, how the hell do you get rid of that?
posted by kaseijin on Mar 6, 2006 - 21 answers

What would you put on a CD to give to non-technical Windows users to help them clean spyware off of their PC and doing other related easy technical tasks? [more inside]
posted by furvyn on Jan 2, 2006 - 9 answers

How can I prevent iPhoto from auto-launching when I plug in a card reader? When I plug in a card reader, iPhoto assumes that it is being summoned and auto-magically launches itself. I don't want this to happen. I don't want iPhoto to ever launch without my permission, which I might grant once a year or so. Yet, every day I have to cope with it launching multiple times as I attempt to transfer photos to my hard drive. It is a minor annoyance, true, but it is an annoyance. My question, then, is how can I make iPhoto stop doing this? I've searched its settings high-and-low, but to no avail. I've searched the System Preferences high-and-low, but to no avail. There must be something I'm missing.
posted by jdroth on Nov 22, 2005 - 8 answers

Why does my Windows XP Home display get short, green lines and "vibrates" intermittently? [more inside]
posted by grefo on Nov 5, 2005 - 2 answers

In Windows XP SP2. The little yellow window that pops up in the lower right hand corner when you print something and says "Document sent to printer." HOW DO I KILL IT? [more inside]
posted by selfnoise on Jun 2, 2005 - 4 answers