If you regularly come upon website images that you want to transfer to image hosting websites then you might want to try out the Image Transloader extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. This could be helpful to create backup or mirror copies of selected website’s images but also to display the images that were [...]
Internet Explorer Add-on: Report a Webpage Problem
Microsoft released the final version of Internet Explorer 8 yesterday. This new version is regarded by many as a step in the right direction as it closes the gap, both speed and compatibility wise, to the other existing web browsers. There have been talks about webpage compatibility problems in Internet Explorer 8 before which can [...]
Web Browser Popularity
If you take a look at the five most popular web browsers you will notice huge differences in popularity among them. The web browsers in question are Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari and Google Chrome. Firefox was – and is still – the only web browser that was able to take away a [...]
Windows Registry Watcher
The Windows Registry is one of the major attack locations for malicious software and should therefor be protected by security software to ensure that no settings get changed or added to it. One prime example is the addition of new startup items to the Windows operating system. The Windows Registry contains several locations where those [...]
Google Docs Adds Office Excel 2007 XLSX Support
While Google Mail (Gmail) is already able to process Office 2007 file formats such as xlsx, docx or pptx by converting them to html format so that they can be viewed online Google Docs could not until now. This is kinda strange as one would think that Google Docs would be the primary application to [...]
Internet Connection Speed Analysis
While bandwidth prices are slowly declining it is still quite common that some Internet Providers try to influence the traffic consumption of their customers by manipulating, which usually means artificially reducing, transfer speeds. Up until recently customers had little possibilities to detect traffic shaping. The Internet connection speed analysis provided by the tool collection at [...]
Webmaster Contact Software
Have you ever come across a website with no means of contacting the webmaster? This poses a problem if you need to contact the webmaster. Can be because of copyright violations, want to ask a question or make a business proposal. Experienced users will look up domain information and retrieve information about the owner of [...]
Internet Explorer 8 Download
Yesterday we mentioned that Microsoft would release the final version of Internet Explorer 8 later that day on the official website. They did that which surprised many tech savvy users as it was generally given that the release would be in the second half of this year and not the first. Even more interesting is [...]
Create DVDs in Linux with DeVeDe, mkisofs, and K3B
My wife and I became hooked on the TV show “Lost” recently. As we were way behind we caught up by renting seasons 1-4. But then we ran out and fell behind again because the current season was halfway through…and had yet to be released on DVD yet. My only recourse was to torrent the [...]