One of the best and most popular features of the Firefox web browser are its extensions. Extensions are additions to the web browser that add new features and options to it. The 5 essential Firefox extensions that this article covers are essential to my Firefox setup. Most users will probably come up with a different [...]
Microsoft Security Bulletin May 2009
Microsoft has released the Security Bulletin for May 2009 which contains one Microsoft Office PowerPoint vulnerability which affects various editions of Microsoft Office but also the Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer and Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack. Affected are Microsoft Office PowerPoint editions in Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, Office 2003 and Microsoft Office 2007. The security [...]
Read The New York Times with Adobe Air
In my limited experience with newspapers, I got the sense that they are not the ones leading the technological revolution. Today I found out that The New York Times has just released an Adobe Air application called The New York Times Reader, for reading their famous newspaper on your desktop. Since “real life”, non-tech companies [...]
Add Play With Windows Media Player In Windows Explorer
The latest installments of Windows Media Player add two context menu entries to some folders in Windows Explorer. The options that are added are “play with Windows Media Player” and “Add to Windows Media Player List”. Users who regularly work with Windows Media Player might want to add these context menu entries to all of [...]
Test Your Internet Speed With Down Tester
It is sometimes advisable to test the Internet speed either to test if the advertised speeds that the IPS lured you in with are reachable or to download speeds from various parts of the world. Internet Service Provider usually offer a test file on their servers that their customers can use to test the download [...]
Get to know Linux: IceWM
So far, in this series, we have taken a look at FluxBox, Window Maker, and Xfce 4. We’ve even examined adding a little eye candy to these old school window managers with xcompmgr and transset. This time around we are going to take a look at what most would consider a more standard metaphor window [...]
Microsoft SharedView
Microsoft SharedView has been designed to share an application or computer desktop with a small group of people. The only requirement for Microsoft SharedView is a Windows Live ID to start a session in the program. The invited users on the other hand do not need their own ID only the ID of the session [...]
Extend Windows Vista Laptop Battery Life With Aerofoil
It is a well known fact that it is possible to extend the battery life of laptops by turning off features that are not needed. This can for instance be hardware devices like modems, Bluetooth and WiFi. There is not really a benefit of keeping those enabled if they are not used ever on the [...]
Evernote available for BlackBerry
Evernote used to be a quite little commercial app which a few people knew about. It wasn’t bad, but then someone thought that there was much more potential in a market dominated mostly by OneNote. So they went free and since then it has been booming for Evernote, their newest release will let you use [...]