Paper Label Maker is a free software program for the Windows operating system that has been created to design all kinds of paper labels easily. This includes address labels but also other kind of labels like CD labels or postcards. The software is not the easiest to use but makes up for it with its [...]
Catalogue your DVDs, games and book
Often you will be certain that you have a DVD but cannot remember where you placed it or if you lent it someone. The best way to keep track of your possessions is to catalogue them, allowing you to remind yourself of where they are, but also letting you quickly value them. It may seem [...]
Auto mounting a Samba share in Linux
So you have that Samba server up and running and you can connect to it from Windows and Mac with ease. But when you turn to another Linux box that doesn’t have Konqueror, Nautilus, or Dolphin you can’t figure out the riddle of connecting. Or maybe you want to have this share mounted at boot [...]
Internet Explorer 8 Ad Blocking Gets Easier With Adblock IE
We have mentioned the release of the first Internet Explorer 8 ad blocking method less than two weeks ago. It involved importing a list of advertisers to the filter list of Internet Explorer’s InPrivate Filtering module. It was not really complicated but could pose problems to inexperienced users nevertheless as users had to find the [...]
Google Browser: Google Chrome And Chromium Download
I recently tried to download the latest version of the open source version of the Google browser called Chromium. A search on the Internet did not reveal a website with a download location in the first results. The only thing that came up was the build server of the Chromium project which listed all the [...]
Firefox Auto Bookmark
The usual way of creating bookmarks in Firefox is to either click on the white star in the address bar or pressing [Ctrl D] to open the page bookmarked dialog. Inexperienced users might also use the bookmarks menu in the main toolbar instead to bookmark the current page in Firefox. There are however situations where [...]
Quote, research and take notes with Quotepad
I sometimes run into an application that’s not hugely new, but it has such great handling, ease of use and functionality that I start to really like it. One such discovery today is Quotepad. Officially it’s positioned more like a copy-paste clipboard tool, but it is much more, offering checklists, reminders, timestamping and more. You [...]
Fix Broken Video Codecs With Codec Sniper
It is not uncommon that dozens or even hundreds of audio and video codecs get installed on a computer system over time. Some are installed by applications, some by codec packs and some manually by the user. Besides compatibility and playback problems that can arise out of this it also means that video codecs stop [...]
Would the try & buy model work for games and movies?
I know you’ve all seen it, naughty people, you download a game for example, and the crack file says something like “Our cracker team does not support piracy, if you like the game, buy it”. So do you? I don’t know about you guys, but while I was “coming of age” I probably wouldn’t have [...]