About Brian Yang
Brian is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of TechAirlines. He is also a developer and manages most of the site’s operations. He enjoys web development in his free time and is currently trying to learn Python. He is currently a high school senior in New York City.
Website: http://www.techairlines.com
Twitter: yangbrian
Google Plus: Brian Yang on Google+
Joined TechAirlines: August 5, 2009
Optimize WordPress Contact Form 7 Plugin Scripts
WordPress has many contact form plugins. The one I use here at Tech Airlines is called Contact Form 7. It’s extremely flexible and easy to use. However, the one thing that has always bugged me was that its 3 scripts (Ajax and 2 jQuery scripts) load on every single page regardless of whether or not …
Force Install Incompatible Firefox Extensions
Are you reluctant to upgrade Firefox because your favorite add-on is incompatible? If you tried to install it anyway, you might be faced with the following notice:
Warning: Forcing to install extensions that are not updated to the current Firefox version may result in unexpected behavior. Continue at your own risk. Use Firefox Safe Mode …
GIMP vs Paint.NET Image Editing
Do you need something to spice up your images? The built in tools in Windows like Microsoft Paint not enough for you? Can’t afford Adobe Photoshop? The two most popular free applications to edit images on Windows would be GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) and Paint.NET, but how do the two compare to each other?…
Google Talk: Are They Really Offline or Just Invisible?
Google Talk (Jabber) features something known as invisibility which makes the user seem to be offline, but really is online. This is a popular feature among most IM networks. However, is it possible to figure out if someone is really offline or just using invisibility just to avoid talking to you on Google Talk? The …
Hide New Tab Button in Firefox 3.5+
Most modern browsers come with a button on the tab bar which opens a new tab. Firefox 3.5 was one of the last ones to implement it, however, some users may find that this button isn’t very useful. After all, opening a new tab can be done with the existing Ctrl + T shortcut or …
Tweet AIR-less with Blu
Are you a Twitter user looking for a sleek new Twitter client that’s not powered by Adobe AIR like most apps out there? Tired of Twitter apps having too many features you don’t need? Take a look at the Blu Twitter Client, otherwise known as the “Vista Twitter Client”, focused on simplicity.
Blu has loads …
VirtualBox 3.1.2 vs VMware Player 3.0
Do you want to run multiple operating systems without going through multi-booting? The most popular way to do this would be virtualization. I previously compared the free VirtualBox against the premium VMware Workstation. But VMware also offers a free version of their virtualization product, known as VMware Player. How would these two free products compare …
Windows 7′s So-Called ‘GodMode’
In the past few days, Windows 7 users became extremely excited about the newly discovered ‘GodMode’. The name suggests something extremely powerful, although it’s basically a folder with shortcuts to the system settings of the operating system. Such a feature exists in Windows Vista as well.
To access this special folder, create a new folder, …
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