One thing that many webmasters and users do not like is that search engines keep them in the dark when they update their search engine, be it search engine algorithm changes or other updates. The Wolfram Alpha team seems to have felt the same way as they decided to release information about the first core [...]
Microsoft Office Word 2007 AutoHistory
One element that is missing in Microsoft’s Office Word 2007 program is the ability to manage document revisions. The software program comes with revision tracking features but those do not help that much once the document has been saved and closed in Word 2007. Enter AutoHistory; A Microsoft Office Word 2007 add-in that adds document [...]
Process NZBs And Torrents In Gmail Automatically
You might stumble upon a torrent or nzb file that you want to download without the ability to do so right away because you are not at your computer system. Maybe you are at work or school. Most users email the website link or the torrent to one of their email accounts and check their [...]
Consolidate Files With Suction
One of the new features of the soon to be released Windows 7 operating system is the ability to consolidate folders into so called libraries. This can be used for example to create a library for all music or videos that are located in various folders on the computer’s hard drive. Suction on the other [...]
Firefox 3.5 Preview
The Mozilla Firefox team has released a new version of the upcoming Firefox web browser. The version is called Firefox 3.5 Preview by the team and is listed as Firefox 3.5b99 on the Mozilla ftp site and about pages in the web browser. Users who are already working with the Firefox 3.5x branch can update [...]
Windows Task Manager Replacement DTaskManager
DTaskManager is a lightweight replacement for the default Windows Task Manager. It can be used side by side with the Windows Task Manager or replace it fully. If the second option is selected it will be launched when the user is opening the task manager the usual way. The program uses a similar layout as [...]
Add Google Chrome’s New Tab Feature To Firefox
You do not get a blank page whenever you open a new tab in the Google browser. Google Chrome displays thumbnails of the most visited websites together with a search function and a list of recently closed pages which can be a great time saver if the user intents to open a website that is [...]
Desktop Search Engine DocFetcher
DocFetcher is a document search engine that, unlike prominent desktop search engines such as Google Desktop Search or Everything, is best suited for indexing and managing document formats only. Most document types are supported starting with plain text documents to scripting languages such as html or php to Microsoft Office formats like doc and xls [...]
Use antiword to extract text from .doc files
I know what you’re thinking: “Why not just use OpenOffice to get the text you need?” There’s a good reason. If you’ve ever used one word processor to get raw text from another you know that formatting is often left behind. End of line characters, etc can remain making the cutting and pasting of text [...]