So you went ahead and purchased that System 76 laptop or you decided to finally install Linux on your laptop. You now have a Linux based laptop with a webcam. But how do you take advantage of this hardware? You want to be able to use that web cam to upload photos to facebook (or [...]
Laptop Theft Recovery Software Prey
There are a few things that laptop owners can do to prevent laptop theft. Probably the most important one is to keep an eye on the laptop all the time. Sometimes however that is not enough and the laptop gets stolen or lost. There is little chance of getting the laptop back once it has [...]
Multiple Browser Bundling With Windows Is Stupid
A recent article published at the Wall Street Journal suggests that EU officials are considering forcing Microsoft to include a bunch of web browsers into the operating system to dilute the advantage that Internet Explorer has so far. This could mean forcing Microsoft to add web browsers to the installation of the operating system or [...]
Windows 7 Gmail Notifier
A first batch of third party applications that have been optimized for the Windows 7 operating system have been released in the last weeks. Gmail Notifier Plus is already the second application that is making good use of the new taskbar features of the Windows 7 operating system. The program will display unread email messages [...]
Linux tips: Encrypting and decrypting files from command line with gpg
Are you paranoid? Are you afraid that someone is going to get ahold of data they sholdn’t have? I am. And because of that I often encrypt files with a gpg key that was given to no one. With those encrypted files I know they are secure to most of the general public. And because [...]
Rip Mount Burn Blu-Ray DVDs
Blu-Ray has won the high definition wars against HD-DVD. Everyone thought that consumers would start buying Blu-Ray players and DVDs like crazy once that happens but this is apparently not the case. Blu-Ray is struggling, most users seem to be quite happy with their DVD players and computers and cannot see a reason to invest [...]
Turn Off Computer Hardware With A Single Click
Rarst inspired me to take a closer look at the command line utility devcon which has been created by Microsoft. Devcon is basically a command line version of the Windows Device Manager. We recently published an energy saving article that contained a tip to disable computer hardware to save power which is especially useful for [...]
Google Chrome And Firefox Extensions Differences
We all know that the Google Chrome development team is planning to add extensions to the web browser. Extensibility seems to be one of the key features that many users, especially Firefox users, except from a web browser. A developer’s build of the Google browser was released with basic extension support a while ago but [...]
Fing Network Discovery Software
The network discovery software Fing has been born out of the ashes of the much acclaimed Look@Lan network monitoring and discovery software. The project is still in an early stage and comes with a command line version for the Microsoft Windows, Linux and Apple Macintosh operating system. This might turn away users who do not [...]