Remind Me In is a basic but lightweight reminder software program for the Windows operating system. It should be compatible with most editions and versions of Microsoft Windows including Windows XP and Windows Vista. An icon will be placed in the Windows system tray after installation which can be used configure the reminders. A right-click [...]
Get back the ctrl-alt-backspace behavior in Ubuntu
In the most recent release of Ubuntu (9.04) the developers decided (after a very lengthy discussion) that the old tried-and-true Ctrl-Al-Backspace key combination would no longer kill the X server. Their justification for this (in a nutshell) was that this combination could be accidentally hit causing the user to lose data. This was not something [...]
Extract Audio From Videos
Extracting audio from videos can be interesting for computer users in several occasions. Be it extracting music from videos to be able to listen it in a music player or mp3 player or extracting audio from television interviews or movies to do the same. Quite a few free software programs are available that can extract [...]
Google Chrome 3 Adds Better Extension And Themes Support
The latest developer release of the Google Chrome web browser introduces two important changes to the extension and theme support of the Google browser. You might remember that Google Chrome users had to enable support for the extension engine by launching the Google browser with the –enable-extensions command line parameter. This has been changed in [...]
Display Firefox Unsorted Bookmarks More Visibly
The Mozilla development team has introduced several new dynamic bookmark folders in Firefox 3 including the recently bookmarked, unsorted bookmarks or recent tags folders. All but the unsorted bookmarks folder are displayed in the default Firefox bookmarks menu. The unsorted bookmarks folder on the other hand is only visible in the Firefox bookmarks manager. It [...]
Grab A Copy Of Nero 9 Free Edition
The DVD burning software Nero evolved from a lighting fast application to burn CDs and DVDs to a bloated monstrosity in the last ten years. The latest versions come with so many modules and additional applications that most users hardly use. Yes, some may appreciate that Nero 9 can convert media files, let users watch [...]
Schedule Emails In Microsoft Outlook
There are quite a few reasons for wanting to send an email message at a later time. It can be emails that cover a new product release that should not be received before a specific date or emails that are important – like birthday emails for example – that need to be send on an [...]
Configuring the appearance of the Compiz Cube
A while ago I covered “Enabling the Cube in Compiz” where I illustrated how simple it was to get the Cube working in the Compiz 3D desktop. That article did not go on to explain just how to configure the Cube once it is up and running. Normally such topics as configuring the appearance of [...]
Thunderbird Email Address Auto Cleaner
Did you know that there is a difference between sending emails to recipients that are in the email address book and those that are not. The display name is one of the form fields that can be filled out in the email clients address book. This display name will be send along with the email [...]