Internet Explorer handles cookies differently than other web browsers. It stores cookies on the local hard drive and leaves traces behind even if cookies have already expired. The usual reaction to expired cookies should be to remove them as they are not of use anymore. Cookies might be stored on a computer system even if [...]
Bluetooth Devices Scanner
Bluetooth View is a portable software program by one of our favorite software developers Nirsoft. It is a lightweight software program running in the background of a computer system that monitors the activity of Bluetooth devices in the vicinity. It will display various information about each detected device and can notify the current user if [...]
Installing Flash in Ubuntu 9.04 with Firefox
If you’ve spent enough time over the years with Linux you know that the browser plug-in has been a source of agony for many. When plugins first became a necessity for browsing Linux was at an “early” age and adding these plugins was truly a nightmare. That was then, this is now. During my first [...]
Font Manager NexusFont
NexusFont is a portable font manager for the Windows operating system that was recently reviewed by Rarst on his blog and also added to Appnews, our latest software updates project. Font managers can be important for several reasons. They can give a quick overview of all installed fonts on a computer system usually including a [...]
Gmail Login
There are basically two ways to log into Gmail. Either by using the Gmail web interface that is available for most users at gmail.com or by accessing Gmail remotely using desktop or mobile email clients. Both methods have their advantages and disadvantages. A Gmail login at the website is not bound to a specific location, [...]
File Upload Software
So called file hosts have become very popular in the last years. They allow users to host files on their web servers which can be advantageous when distributing the files to multiple recipients. While some file hosts offer software programs to upload files to their web servers others only provide access to a web interface. [...]
Internet Browser Benchmark PeaceKeeper
Benchmarks can be an appropriate method of comparing different products against each other. Internet browser benchmarks usually calculate the processing speed of web browsers using JavaScript. This method is a good indicator of the speed of a web browser. It fails however to test other important factors like usability, security or correct code interpretations. A [...]
Connecting Linux to a Bubba 2
If you don’t know, the Bubba 2 is a piece of hardware, driven by the Linux operating system, created by ecXito. The Bubba 2 can stream media, serve files, share printers, and more. How? The Bubba 2 uses Samba to share out services and files. Because it uses Samba, connecting to the Bubba 2 is [...]
Import Email Mailboxes Into Gmail
There are three different kinds of email users these days; Those that work with desktop email clients, those that work with online email clients and those that use both email solutions. Moving from one email client to another is not always as easy as it sounds, especially when moving from a desktop email client to [...]