Cloud computing is a buzz word. It has been made popular with services like Google Docs which allow users to store their documents on a server on the Internet. While it surely is comfortable to have the documents stored on servers with the ability to work with them and share them with trusted individuals words [...]
Giganews Usenet Trials
You know that I’m a happy Giganews customer. I have been using their Usenet service for the last years and they never let me down. Sure, they are not the cheapest Usenet provider when it comes to comparing the monthly subscription prices but they quality level surpasses anything else on the market. Giganews are running [...]
Passing variables using in the URL
If you’ve seen some WordPress blogs or online stores you’ve probably seen url-s in the form of http://somepage.com/product.php?id=4. These sites pass variables to scripts using the url. The script will scan the url for these and you can use them in a database query for example. This is the technology that allows WordPress templates to [...]
Tweak Firefox with about:config
If you use Firefox you probably have had to enter the address about:plugins to see if the plugin you just installed actually did install. But did you know there is another “about” address you can use to do some serious tweaking in the famous open source web browser? That address: about:config. The about:config address is [...]
USB Flash Drives: USB Vaccine
Panda Security has released a new security software program that increases the security of usb flash drives. The portable software program called USB Vaccine provides the means to vaccinate both the computer system and usb flash drives. Computer vaccination referring to disabling autorun completely from removable media like usb flash drives or optical drives like [...]
Windows XP: Default Internet Browser Per User Profile
One of the main problems that users of multi-user Windows XP systems experience is that the default internet browser is set as a system setting that is affecting all user accounts. If one user decided to change the default internet browser it would affect all user accounts of the Windows XP system. Default Browser is [...]
Uninstalling Features In Windows 7
The release candidate of Windows 7 comes with a surprising new feature in the Control Panel that will please many advanced users. A main point of criticism for users of previous Microsoft operating systems was the lack of uninstallation possibilities. Programs like Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer or Windows Search felt like excess baggage if [...]
Pick Me Selects Random Files From Directories
If you got a large hard drive with all kind of multimedia files you might sometimes need someone else to tell you what to watch or listen to. We all have this moments of indecision where to much choice can make it harder to make a decision. Shall I watch 24, Lost or The IT [...]
Old School Linux email with Alpine
I grew up with old-school email tools in Linux. The primary tool I used was Pine. Pine was simple, elegant, reliable, and insanely fast and lightweight. Of course Pine was a text-based email client only. To view graphics or html you had to invoke an external application. Pine also wasn’t a “point and click” email [...]