Twitter, as with most things started out small. Then it went viral and exploded which is ironic because now it’s known for being the place where things go viral. As if Twitter isn’t addicting enough, there are actually several addons that make it more addicting. There are some obvious favorites in the Twitter community and [...]
Firefox 3.5 RC3 Released
The third, and most likely last, release candidate of Firefox 3.5 is currently being uploaded to Mozilla ftp mirror servers throughout the world. the distribution can take between 24-48 hours to complete before users will receive update notifications in the web browser or on the Mozilla Firefox website. Firefox 3.5 RC3 introduces several non-critical changes [...]
Visual Thesaurus VocabGrabber
VocabGrabber is an interesting online service provided by Visual Thesaurus. The online tool can be used to analyze text that can consist of up to 200000 characters. All that needs to be done is to copy and paste text into the form on the Visual Thesaurus website to receive an in depth analysis of the [...]
Adobe Fixes Critical Shockwave Vulnerability
Adobe has issues a security patch for the Adobe Shockwave software program that fixes one vulnerability that has been rated critical by Adobe Software. The vulnerability gives attackers, who can attack systems remotely, control over affected computer systems. The interesting aspect of the issued patch is that Adobe recommends to completely uninstall Adobe Shockwave 11.5.0.596 [...]
Apply To Become A Microsoft Office 2010 Tester (US Only)
Microsoft Office 2010 will be the next installment of Microsoft’s popular Office suite. We already mentioned Outlook 2010 or more specifically the user protest that Microsoft’s decision to use the Word rendering engine for HTML emails sparked yesterday. Microsoft is looking for participants for the Microsoft’s Office 2010 Real Life Stories program. Eligible are families, [...]
Give users specific access with sudo
If you’re new to Linux chances are you know about Ubuntu. Ubuntu has done a great job making a distribution of Linux new-user friendly. One of the ways they have done this is by making the root user (the super user) somewhat transparent. The user can not log in as the root user in a [...]
Photo Editing Software Image Tuner
Image tuner is a free photo editing software for the Windows operating system. It can be used to perform a basic set of operations that include batch resizing, converting, watermarking and renaming digital photos and images. The photo editing software has been specifically designed to assist webmasters and users in publishing optimized photos on the [...]
Fix Outlook 2010
Microsoft’s plans to use the Word HTML rendering engine to display HTML emails in the upcoming email software program Microsoft Outlook 2010 has created quite a few protest websites that try to convince Microsoft to change their plans. Outlook 2010 is still in the beta stage and Microsoft is encouraging users to submit feedback to [...]
Rapidshare Downloader RapidWareX Updated
Downloaders for the popular file hosting website Rapidshare seem to be very popular software development projects. They usually come with the same feature set allowing Rapidshare users to queue up downloads, setup Rapidshare premium accounts and import text links pointing to Rapidshare downloads. RapidWareX was recently updated with the ability to stream audio and video [...]