When you log into GNOME are there applications that you wish would start automatically? Are you one of those that fire up your web browser or your email client as your desktop is finishing the loading process? If that’s the case you’re in luck, GNOME (and most Linux desktops) allows you to add applications to [...]
Microsoft Download Portals Overview
Microsoft is not only maintaining one public download repository on the Internet but several. Many of these download sites are offering downloads for a specific Microsoft product or group of users. Some are accessible from within Microsoft products while others are only accessible from a web browser. This makes it rather complicated to create an [...]
Skype 4 Lite
So called lite applications try to bring down the storage requirements and resource usage of bloatware to increase performance by removing components and features that are not needed by the majority of users. Well known examples for lite applications are Nero Lite or Adobe Reader Lite. The voice over IP client Skype 4 is another [...]
Internet Explorer 8 Ad Blocking
Ad Blocking in the Internet Explorer 8 web browser is not as accessible as it is in other web browsers like Opera or Firefox with add-ons installed. Many Internet Explorer 8 users do not even know that an ad blocking feature exists in the web browser. It can be easily accessed by pressing the shortcut [...]
WordPress Blogs: Create Custom Tag Pages
A WordPress blog post consists of a handful of elements like the title and body but also tags, categories and comments. Tag pages usually display excerpts of all posts that use the same tag. One example: If you search for Windows 7 Download on Google you find that a tag page for my website Windows [...]
Screen Capture Tool Greenshot
One of the easiest way of taking a screenshot is by pressing the Print key which will send a screenshot of the desktop to the Clipboard from where it can be processed further. Screen capture tools like Greenshot or the previously reviewed MWSnap add interesting new options to the screen capturing process. Greenshot, a screen [...]
Backup your Linux, Mac, or Windows machines with fwbackups
Are you looking for a simple backup solution that will work cross platform, with a user-friendly interface, that’s open source, and free? If so, you’ve found it. The fwbackups backup solution is all of that and more. I have tried many other backup solutions on Linux. Some of them are either command-line only, require a [...]
OCZ Z-Drive
One of the latest hardware trends seems to be Solid State Drive (SSD) Raids. We already mentioned the 24 monster SSD Raid video that was uploaded to Youtube as part of Samsungs campaign to promote their SSD drives. This is obviously nothing that end users will ever user as it is hardly affordable and practical. [...]
Laptop GMA Gaming Accelerator
Laptops with integrated graphic accelerators like Intel’s GMA (Graphics Media Accelerator) are not capable of providing enough power for state of the art computer games. They do run old school computer games well but fail when it comes to the likes of Crysis or other state of the art computer games that require high end [...]