If you have a need for an ftp server, and you have a Linux machine on your network, then you need look no further than proftpd. The proftpd project came about to fill the need for a secure and reliable ftp server for the Linux operating system. Proftpd uses a single configuration file, so it’s [...]
Opera Internet Browser Search Edit
The Opera Internet browser comes with several search engines preinstalled that can be accessed in one of the toolbars. This quick search engine access possibilities are found in most modern browsers. Differences exist mainly in the editing options that are presented to the user. Opera’s search engine information are stored in the file search.ini which [...]
Pirate Bay Trial Judge Biased?
News portals and sites on the Internet have reported in length about the trial against the founders of the online Torrent portal and tracker The Pirate Bay. Several of the charges brought forth against the founders had to be dropped during the trial. It did come as a surprise to many that the Pirate Bay [...]
Adobe Photoshop PSD Plugin For Paint.net
Paint.net is my image editor of choice. It is free, starts up fast and provides access to all the features and options needed to edit images effectively before posting them on websites. I have always associated Paint.net with a slow and resource hungry .net application but it turned out to be quite the opposite which [...]
Samsung LED 7000
I have to say that I’m very happy with my 42″ Samsung LCD TV although I’m not watching a lot of television. Samsung has shown off their new TV line LED TV Series back in January and some of the features look interesting. So interesting that I might consider ditching my old TV for a [...]
Do you use a system sidebar?
With the well developed Google Desktop Sidebar and the Vista Sidebar, putting all your gadgets and websites on a sidebar always visible might be quite tempting and can provide loads of information like email, RSS, weather, notes etc., but do you actually use these features? Does the usefulness outweigh the memory usage? Personally I like [...]
Hard Disk Serial Number Changer
Whenever a hard drive is formatted in Windows a serial number is assigned in the end. This serial number is often used by software applications to restrict a software installation to that hard drive or reduce the number of allowed activations by one by linking the serial number of the hard drive to one of [...]
Gmail UI For Thunderbird
If you use both the online email client Gmail and the desktop email client Thunderbird you might like the idea of porting some of the features and shortcuts that Google has introduced to Gmail into Mozilla Thunderbird. Gmail UI does that. It does not port all of the features to the desktop email client but [...]
What’s in store for Ubuntu 9.04?
The latest greatest version of Ubuntu is about ready to drop (The predicted date for release is April 23). With this new release there is plenty to get excited about. But with all of these new features will come a good deal of new issues. As most who have followed Ubuntu know, the .04 releases [...]