Accelerators are a new feature of Microsoft’s upcoming web browser Internet Explorer 8 that have recently been ported to other web browsers like Firefox in the form of add-ons. Like the name implies Accelerators are supposed to speed up the web browsing experience. Not by squeezing another Megabit out of the pipe but by providing [...]
Linux Process Management: Command Line
Previously I wrote about using GUI tools for Linux process management (Get To Know Linux: Process Management.) Both the GNOME and the KDE tools are outstanding, user-friendly solutions to an issue that can often become troublesome. But what if you are running a headless server? Or what happens if that runaway process is X Windows [...]
Maxto Divides The Computer Monitor
Maxto is a software program for the Windows operating system that can divide all connected computer monitor screens into different areas that act independently from each other. The effect is that windows only get maximized in the area of the computer monitor that they are located in. This makes it far easier to align multiple [...]
Share your WiFi and earn with Fon
FON is a company, which offers wireless access. Unlike many commercial providers, like T-Mobile, it adopts a more social tone. FON allows people to buy a wireless router from them for €30. They then share their WiFi with other Fon users and gain access to other Fon users’ connections. Whilst many FON users are in [...]
Create A Cached Website Copy
Many websites tend to be discontinued after a time. This can be extremely frustrating if that website did contain some valuable information that are not accessible in the same form anywhere on the Internet. Google Cache might be a solution but it usually caches one of the last states of a page which does not [...]
Unofficial Adobe Reader Patch Released
You might have read about a new vulnerability in Adobe Reader 9 and previous versions that is affecting all platforms and rated with a critical severity by Adobe. The vulnerability can be used to crash an application to allow an attacker to take control of the attacked computer system. Adobe announced plans to release the [...]
Firefox 3 Site Specific Zoom
The last article about Firefox’s zoom capabilities received several interesting comments about the zoom function. What many users who commented did not know was that the zooming behavior changed in Firefox 3. It is still possible to zoom in or out of a website using keyboard shortcuts or the Firefox menu but observant visitors will [...]
Get To Know Linux: Process Management
If you use Windows than the three-finger salute Ctrl-Alt-Delete means quite a bit to you. You use it and, in some instances, you use it frequently. But if you are new to Linux you will notice that the Ctrl-Alt-Delete might actually reboot your machine (If you’re in console mode that is for certain. Some desktop [...]
How To Zoom In Firefox
I recently had two conversations with Firefox users who did not know that Firefox came with the means to zoom in and out of a website. They were using external applications to magnify parts of the screen and where surprised that they could achieve the same effect with less work. All of the zooming options [...]