Tables can be embedded in emails easily. If a Thunderbird user receives an email that contains a table he is up for a problem though. It does not matter how he tries to copy the table or selected parts of it because the end result will always be that the formatting is lost. There is [...]
Windows Vista SP2 Beta 6002.16497 Released
Microsoft released a new beta version with the build number 6002.16497 to Windows Vista Service Pack 2 beta testers who can download the second service pack from Windows Update or Microsoft Connect. The Registry entry that was posted in the last article to download Service Pack 2 from Windows Update is still valid and can [...]
Windows System Control Center
If you ask Windows system administrators about their favorite non commercial software publishers the names Nirsoft and Sysinternals will be mentioned without doubt lots of times. Both produce high quality software that can be useful in many occasions. Windows System Control Center is a frontend for Nirsoft and Sysinternals software programs. The portable software displays [...]
Windows 7 Tidbits
The last days have been filled with news posts about Windows 7. Everyone posted news about the upcoming operating system and it was quite hard to keep an overview of the things that came to light during the PDC 08 convention. That convention is over now and it is time to lean back and take [...]
Create Large Wall Posters
We have covered the online service Rasterbator in the past that converted an image into a rasterized wall poster. Block Posters is a similar service with the difference that the images are not rasterized which makes the results even more impressive. A large wall poster is created in three steps. An image is uploaded to [...]
Skins Windows with WindowsBlinds
Compared to Linux, it is extremely difficult to customise the appearance of Windows. The most popular, and definitely the most effective, piece of software is Stardock’s WindowsBlinds, which allows Windows to be skinned. Thousands of skins are available, ranging from Star Trek-themed ones, to OS X-themed ones and even to superhero-inspired ones! Whilst changing the [...]
Installing An Operating System With Virtual PC 2007
Several free applications exist to install operating systems on so called virtual machines. This method provides a few benefits, for example the option to reset it whenever it is needed. It provides a great way of accessing operating systems either to test them or to run applications which would not run on the default operating [...]
Microsoft Visual Round Trip Analyzer
Microsoft’s Visual Round Trip Analyzer helps web developers and testers visualize the performance of a website by providing in depth statistics about it. The software program relies on Microsoft’s Network Monitor which has to be installed to capture the traffic. A good practice would be to install the Microsoft Network Monitor first and Microsoft Visual [...]
Fasterfox Lite
Fasterfox is a controversial Firefox add-on mainly because of its prefetching setting that caused unnecessary load on web servers. By default Fasterfox was only using this techniques on webpages where the website developer explicitly enabled prefetching. Users could however change this to prefetch all static links. All ten static links of a website would be [...]