Just about fifteen minutes ago I was working on an article for Linux.com when I thought I was going to lose a ton of work. I was writing my last paragraph on a 1,600+ word article (entering the article in their web-based system). I was going back to OpenOffice to copy and paste all of [...]
JkDefrag Updated Now Known As MyDefrag
MyDefrag 4.0 was released two days ago after a series of beta releases and a name change from JkDefrag. The new version has still all the traits of the popular JkDefrag. Interested users can take a look at the changes in this new version in the announcement forum posts made by the developer of the [...]
Make Tabs Permanent In Firefox
Firefox by default handles all tabs the same way. A tab gets closed if a user presses the close button, no matter if that action was intended or not. It is also true that new websites get loaded in the active tab under certain circumstances which is another thing that some users might want to [...]
Windows Screen Shots Software Screenie
You can simply press the Print screen on the computer keyboard if you want to create a screen shot of the current computer screen. The screenshot will be stored in the windows clipboard and it only takes an image editor or other program accepting images from the clipboard to create or work with the screenshot. [...]
Create Website Desktop Shortcuts In Firefox
It was a tad easier to create website desktop shortcuts in the Firefox web browser before the Mozilla team decided to change the default behavior when dragging and dropping tabs from Firefox to an empty space of the computer desktop. This would have created a website desktop shortcut in previous versions but will spawn a [...]
Palm Mojo SDK Released
Its not everyday that you have a phone that lives up to its hype, a few that have in recent years has been the iPhone, Razr, Omnia, Touch HD and more recently the Palm Pre. But the big difference between all these phones is their OS. iPhone runs Apples mobile OSX, Omnia and Touch HD [...]
Amazon Deletes Books From Kindle Without User Consent
If you ever needed another reason not to purchase hardware, software or media with DRM then this latest story might convince you that DRM is utterly bad for the consumers. Amazon Kindle owners who purchased books by George Orwell just realized yesterday that the books were no longer on their device. Amazon apparently deleted the [...]
Change your GNOME wallpaper automatically with Wallpapoz
Are you a desktop nut like me? Are you constantly tweaking your desktop and never quite happy with it? Are you a collector of wallpapers and do you like your wallpaper to change at a given interval or when you change to a different workspace? If you are that person then Wallpapoz is for you. [...]
Aardvark Combines Yahoo Answers With Instant Messaging
Tobey mailed me an invite to Aardvark the other day which left me puzzled for a short time. The email basically stated that Tobey had invited me and trusted my opinion on blogging, computers and technical advisory. That’s actually a very nice way of inviting users to join a service that they know nothing about. [...]