Favicons are those tiny little icons that are displayed in front of every bookmark and tab in the Mozilla Firefox web browser. They can be used to identify a website next to the website title that is also always shown. There are two main reasons why someone would want to remove favicons in the Firefox [...]
Microsoft Outlook Performance Reports Generator
Many companies and organizations use Microsoft Outlook as a central communications platform. Employees can use it to send and receive emails, read news and create appointments and meetings in the calendar. The Microsoft Outlook Performance Reports Generator is a small program for the Windows operating system that can create performance based reports based on several [...]
Adding dropshadows in Fluxbox with xcompmgr
In my recent articles I have been covering various window managers and desktops for Linux. So far you can read about Fluxbox, Window Maker, and Xfce 4. These desktops and window managers are solid entries in the Linux desktop. But what if you want to take your Linux desktop further with a bit more eye [...]
Microsoft Office Add-ins Manager
Add-ins are a great way of increasing the functionality of Microsoft Office. Some add-ins are compatible with all Microsoft Office programs while others only work in specific applications such as the email client Microsoft Outlook or the presentation software Microsoft PowerPoint. Microsoft Office does not however provide an easily accessible interface to manage all add-ins [...]
4 Internet Explorer 8 Annoyances
Internet Explorer 8 is most likely the best web browser that Microsoft has developed in a very long time. It beats its predecessors Internet Explorer 6 and 7 fair and square and comes closer to the other popular web browsers than ever before. While it still lacks behind in comparison against Internet browsers like Safari, [...]
Video To DVD Conversion
One of the best programs for video to DVD conversions is the Shareware ConvertXtoDVD which was part of our Christmas Giveaway. It is one of those programs that are easy to use and produce great results. Users who do not want to pay for a video to DVD conversion software can pick several free software [...]
Nokia Map Loader
Nokia Map Loader is a software program for the Windows and Macintosh operating system that has been designed by Nokia. The application can download maps for the Nokia Maps service directly to the cell phone. This could for example be used to download maps of cities or regions before traveling there. The other available option [...]
Mozilla Prism 1.0 Beta
Mozilla Prism 1.0 Beta has been released yesterday. The developers at Mozilla Labs have raised the version of Mozilla Prism to 1.0 beta. The launch was celebrated with a shiny new website. Mozilla Prism can be used to move web applications to the computer desktop. It basically displays a selected web service like any other [...]
Firefox Custom Builds
Custom builds of the Firefox web browser are created by third parties. They usually optimize Firefox (compiler and code) and sometimes add new features to the web browser as well. Not many Firefox users know of the existence of custom builds and probably lesser know that there is a third party builds forum at the [...]