The recent sale of the popular torrent hosting website The Piratebay to Swedish company Global Gaming Factory was a surprise to the userbase of the website. Many feared that this change of ownership would spell doom for the website. It was not clear back then what the new owners were planning and operations turned back [...]
Log in to websites with your site’s URL as your OpenID
A few years ago, Martin covered OpenID, an open authentication system. Since then, it has become increasingly popular and a wide range of sites, from AOL to LiveJournal provide OpenIDs, and OpenID login is also quite common. OpenID is particularly popular for blog comments, with Blogger now integrating support for it. An OpenID is an [...]
User Manuals
I was recently checking and cleaning my parent’s top floor when I discovered heaps of user manuals that dated back five to ten years. That got me thinking that we – that is every person in the world – usually keep instruction manuals for devices. It’s actually a fact that instruction manuals stay longer than [...]
Hexelon Max Calculator
Chance is that you are using the calculator that is provided with the operating system if you work with a software calculator. While these are usually fine for basic calculations they do lack the depth and functionality of professional calculators. One option is to download and use a more versatile calculator. The Hexelon Max Calculator [...]
Firefox Computer Alarm Clock And Timer
Running Firefox with a hidden system taskbar provides more space for the web browser. It does however remove access to the system clock which can be problematic if the system clock is needed in the user’s daily routine. The Firefox add-on Simple Timer can place a clock in the Firefox status bar. Displaying a clock [...]
Opera 10 Beta 2 Released
Opera 10 Beta 2 was released earlier today by the Opera development team. Users who are already using a version of Opera 10 should consider upgrading to this new release which brings it one step closer to the first release candidate. The changelog lists many changes for this release especially for the Opera user interface, [...]
Firefox 3.5.1 Update Available
A recently disclosed vulnerability in the Firefox 3.5 web browser forced the Mozilla Firefox development team to release version 3.5.1 of the web browser early to fix the vulnerability. The vulnerability, which is affecting all operating systems that Firefox can be installed on, is linked to the Firefox JavaScript Tracemonkey engine. A temporary fix was [...]
Omnipresent Search Interface GNOME Deskbar
The GNOME Deskbar applet serves as a one-stop shop for all of your desktop searching needs. Deskbar manages this by using various plugins to interact with different Linux desktop search tools. But Deskbar isn’t limited to just a search tool. With Deskbar you can: search with Beagle, search the web, recent documents, launch programs, calculate [...]
Order Internet Explorer 8 On CD
One of the few problems that European customers might experience after buying Microsoft’s upcoming operating system Windows 7 is the lack of a Internet browser. The European version of Windows 7 ships without Microsoft’s Internet Explorer which in turn means that European customers need to find a way to install a web browser without Internet. [...]