CopyGator monitors a site’s RSS news feed providing detailed information about other blogs and websites who copy, quote or republish posts from the feed. The service is currently monitoring more than 2.2 million RSS feeds who produce more than 500K blog posts per day. CopyGator will then compare all published posts to determine if two [...]
Easy Peasy Optimized Ubuntu For Asus Eee PCs
Easy Peasy, which was formerly known as Ubuntu Eee, is a optimized (unofficial) version of Ubuntu for Asus Eee PCs and other netbooks. Netbooks have become very popular in the last two years which can be mainly attributed to the attractive price range and mobility. The drawbacks of netbooks are their screen resolutions and hardware [...]
WOW Addons Updater
World of Warcraft is an online roleplaying game by Blizzard. It is without doubt one of the most popular roleplaying games with 12 million subscribers. A great feature of the World of Warcraft game is its extensibility. Users can install so called WOW addons which work very similar to other addon based programs like Firefox [...]
Subtitles Download Subs Grabber
With the Internet came the rise of large non-commercial subtitle communities that produce subtitles for movies, television shows and other multimedia files. It usually does not take longer than a day or two before the first subtitles are provided on the Internet. Subs Grabber is a tool that can be used to download subtitles. The [...]
Monitor your Network the Open Source way with Etherape
Every network administrator needs a good network monitor for network management. But with so many to choose from it’s hard to know which one is best. This especially applies to the open source world. Go to Freshmeat.net and you will find 191 entries for open source network analyzers and network tools. Of those many are [...]
Media Keyboard Support For Unsupported Media Players
So called media keyboards have to prerequisites before the media keys can be used on the computer system. A media key is an additional key on the keyboard that is used to control media or programs on the computer. The most common keys are those to control music on the computer and to open a [...]
Scan And Remove Potentially Dangerous Software
FreeFixer is a free software program for Microsoft Windows that will scan the computer system for potentially dangerous software. The process has been streamlined to be as unobtrusive as possible. A click on Start Scan will initiate the system scan after starting the software program. Several important locations will be scanned in the process including [...]
Greasemonkey No Scripts Installed
It can happen that the Firefox Greasemonkey extension is displaying the message “No Scripts Installed” even if you have installed a script a second ago or already use Greasemonkey scripts. Some users might suspect that they need to restart the browser or at least refresh the page before the new Greasemonkey script is shown as [...]
Megaupload Captcha Auto Fill
It is a bit ironic that users are looking for ways to automatically fill out captchas to save time as captchas have been invented to prevent bots from accessing websites automatically. Most captchas on the Internet are either easily defeatable by bots (yes even those basic math equations can be solved automatically) or almost unreadable [...]