Google Trends is a service by Google that displays the popularity of search terms in the Google search engine over time. Users can compare search terms with each other to get an understanding on how they have changed in the last years. Google Trends is also offering a top 100 lists of search terms that [...]
Internet Explorer New Tab Page In Firefox
You are presented with several choices if you open a new tab in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8. Internet Explorer users have the option to open recently opened websites, start an inPrivate session (that’s the equivalent to Private Browsing in Firefox) or to use an accelerator. The Firefox web browser on the other hand displays a [...]
Analyze Computer Systems With Kaspersky’s GSI Parser
GSI Parser is a service offered by Kaspersky that is made up of a client for the Windows operating system and an online module. The client is being used to collect information about the computer systems it is run on. This includes suspicious files, outdated system drivers, unknown files and infections. Running the tool takes [...]
Encrypting email in Claws Mail
YACMA (Yet Another Claws Mail Article). Recently you may have taken a look at my Claws Mail articles: “Claws Mail: The unsung powerhouse email client.” and “Claws Mail: Must have plugins.” Hopefully you have discovered how powerful Claws mail is. Like all good email clients, Claws Mail can handle PGP encryption for your outgoing and [...]
A standard compliant web browser and editor: Amaya
Some web browsers don’t fully respect web standards and many WYSIWYG HTML editors produce absolutely revolting code. W3C set out standards as to how HTML (and XHTML etc) should appear and whilst some choose to ignore these, some are devoted to the following of these standards. Sticking to standards can therefore lead to issues with [...]
Create Access Log File In Windows
If you are sharing a desktop computer with several users you might be interested in knowing the login and logout time of each user on the system. It could also be interesting to know even if you are using the computer alone but have it accessible in a room where others could access it. Parents [...]
Speed Up Firefox By Limiting The History
The Firefox web browser will save visited websites for a minimum of 90 days and a maximum of 180 days in the Firefox history by default. The hard limit is set to 40000 websites that are stored in the History. When that limit is reached old history entries will be deleted from the database that [...]
Setting up a Dual-Boot – Just the Tutorial to Help
Until a couple of months ago, I didn’t know much about dual-booting. Yes, I knew it meant running two OS’s on one machine but beyond that, not much else. So when I decided to go ahead and set up a dual boot on my laptop, I definitely needed help. I got it in the form [...]
Optimize SQLite Databases In Firefox
The Mozilla Firefox development team has changed the way the web browser is storing information to SQLite databases in Firefox 3. Cookies, Bookmarks, RSS feeds and many other information are now stored in SQLite databases that are stored in the Firefox profile. A problem that can arise is that the databases can get fragmented over [...]