Document scanning can be done with digital cameras. The process is very similar to scanning documents with a scanner. Instead of using a scanner that is connected to the computer to scan the document a picture of the document is taken and uploaded to the computer. The result is the same: A document in electronic [...]
Samsung SS805 SSD
Solid State Drives (SSDs) have many advantages over conventional hard drives like their faster access time, lower power consumption and silence while running. The read speed of SSD drives can be compared to those fast 15,000-rpm state of the art hard drives. The only real downside of SSDs was their rather low write speed which [...]
Firefox Price Comparison
Experienced users use the Internet to research prices before they make a purchase. While they use the Internet for price comparison they do not necessarily make the purchase on the Internet. A handy tool for Firefox users is Right-Click Buy which offers an easy way to check items on price comparison sites from within Firefox. [...]
Hard Drive Data Retrieval
Disk Investigator is a pretty unique hard drive data retrieval tool that takes a totally different approach than the usual hard drive data recovery tools. What Disk Investigator does is to provide direct access to the raw data sectors of a selected hard drive so that the hard drive’s data can be explored up to [...]
Backup Flickr Accounts
There might come a time where you want to download some of the photos that you have uploaded to Flickr. Maybe you got a new computer or a new hard drive because the old hard drive crashed. Maybe you want to download all photos at your moms house to show them to her offline. Whatever [...]
animoto: Create a video presentation
animoto is a site which allows video presentations to be made in a minimal amount of time, claiming to be the killer of slideshows (although in reality they are slideshows!). The end result is an extremely slick slideshow. The site makes creating a video presentation easily: to create one, all you must do is simply [...]
Save Your Skin by Customizing Your Bash Prompt
If you do much work at the Linux command line then you know the bash prompt can offer you a lot of information. But by default the prompt itself isn’t too useful. What you might not know is that you can customize the bash prompt in many ways. From configuring colors to the information bash [...]
Work in style with the Enigma desktop package
While I’m a huge fan of desktop customization I always actually work with a solution which is the simplest possible. I love elaborite desktop configs, but I find most of the stuff gets in my way. I have found a setup which looks extremely good and easy on the eyes and while still a bit [...]
Browsing History
Almost every web browser is storing browsing history information by default. This includes opened websites, downloaded files, form data or bookmarks that have been saved. All of these information can be used to create a profile about the surfing habit of the user. Historian is a free portable software program that can process the browsing [...]