Are you one of those users who likes to doze off while listing to an audiobook that is playing on a computer or laptop? If you are you might have experienced several problems related to that like not knowing the exact position that you stopped listening to the audiobook because you fell asleep or the [...]
Internet Explorer Privacy Manager
When I was working for one of the largest German financial companies we had some very strict rules at work like having to lock the computer whenever we went away from the computer desk. This was naturally forgotten sometimes and could result in some severe problems for the person who forgot to lock the desktop. [...]
Web development roundup
Last week was a bit less active in web development terms, but here’s a roundup of what you can find on Scriptastique if you haven’t been taking a look recently. We had a look at how a mysql query basically works, which will come in handy if you’re just learning about MySQL and PHP. The [...]
How do you use your media player?
Following up on last week’s much commented article about how you guys use your Firefox, I decided to also take a look at how you use your media player applications. This is perhaps a bit more complex than last week’s question, since we are covering multiple applications. Nevertheless, which media player do you use, and [...]
Youtube Downloader And Manager
There is definitely no shortage of web browser add-ons and software programs that allow users to download videos from the video portal Youtube. We covered possibilities in the past like Youtube Download or Youtube Batch Downloader. Youtube Manager on the other hand adds to that by not only providing the means to download Youtube videos [...]
Flickr Tools: Flickr Downloadr
Flickr is one of the most popular photo hosting websites on the Internet. This makes it attractive for software developers to produce Flickr Tools as they can reach a huge audience with them. Flickr Downloadr is a new software program to download photos of Flickr. The first version of the tool has been released recently [...]
Installing and Configuring NTP on Linux
NTP is the Network Time Protocol. This protocol allows servers (or desktops) to communicate to very reliable sources to keep their time synchronized. There are two reasons why you would want to employ NTP: 1) You’re a geek and you want your time to be perfect. 2) You need your servers all synchronized with the [...]
Secure Windows Services Configuration
I just spend most of the morning installing Windows XP on a computer system. While the installation itself takes some time the configuration afterwards is surely the most time consuming part of the process. Windows XP comes with many services enabled that are usually not needed by most users and that can allow hackers to [...]
Document Imaging Software JOCR
JOCR is a specialized optical character recognition (ocr) software that can recognize characters from images taken on the computer’s desktop. Before we delve into the functionality it should be noted that JOCR requires the Microsoft Office Document Imaging component which is a component of Microsoft Office 2003 and never Office versions. The Office Tool has [...]