Microsoft has announced plans to distribute their latest web browser Internet Explorer 8 to computers running previous installments of Internet Explorer via Automatic Updates. The final version of Internet Explorer 8 was already distributed that way to users still running a release candidate or beta version of the web browser. The distribution will be started [...]
Launch any app or folder with a hotkey using PS Hot Launch
I use a lot of applications and now that Luanchy is so great I can do this relatively quickly. However, there is another app that allows even simpler launching, and not just for applications, but for folders, text files, anything you need. PS Hot Launch VVL is an applications that lets you bind any application, [...]
Microsoft Outlook Express Email Extraction
Microsoft Outlook Express emails are stored in so called dbx files named after the folder in the email program with the exception of folders.dbx which contains information about all Outlook folders. The dbx files are not really accessible by normal means, the only possible way is to either use Microsoft Outlook or extract the messages [...]
PDF Presentation Software Impressive
PDF documents are usually not used in presentations. It does happen often however that presentations are shared as pdf documents instead of the original document format which is usually created by Microsoft PowerPoint document. Impressive is a presentation software that provides the same presentation techniques that are known from PowerPoint with the difference that it [...]
Extend Firefox’s user agent switcher
It’s 2009 and I would have thought the world wide web would be browser agnostic by now. Unfortunately there are some developers that simply can not design or code for a cross platform/browser world. Because of that developers have had to create browser add on’s to help get around the issues. Many of you have [...]
P2P: The Owner Free File System
Peer to peer networks are often associated with the dark side of the Internet as they became widely known for containing large amounts of copyrighted files accessible to anyone with the right client software. File sharing on standard p2p networks like Bittorrent is not anonymous as IPs are visible once a connection has been established. [...]
Wireless Networking Software Homedale
Not all wireless networking hardware comes with the appropriate software to monitor the available networks in the vicinity. The software that comes with the operating system is usually pretty basic as well and does not provide extensive means – or none at all – to monitor parameters like signal strength over time. Homedale is a [...]
Web Development: Widerbug For Firefox
Firebug is a very popular extension for the Firefox web browser that allows web developers to access loads of information about any website that they work on. Among the information are the objects that get transferred, detailed CSS and HTML information, JavaScript debugging and more. The Firebug extension divides the screen in an upper and [...]
Back up your files to a secure remote server with Carbonite
Everyone should back their data up in case their computer suddenly fails or is even lost or stolen. Many will back their data up on mediums like external hard drives, but it requires a certain amount of disciple to remember to hook your laptop up to one. Another problem with backing data up on such [...]