The standard functionality to copy files and folders in Windows is severely limited. It might work fine for casual users but if you ever tried to copy a large amount of data to a network share or backup folder you might have noticed that there are things amiss that are more or less essential for [...]
Change The Default Email Client In Firefox
Many Firefox users do not know that they can change the default email client in the web browser easily. What even fewer know is that it is even possible to not only select desktop email clients but also the web based email providers Yahoo Mail or Gmail as the default provider for all mailto links. [...]
Benefits of Programming in Ruby
There are several programming languages that to-be programmers (or current programmers) can choose from. For first-time programmers, choosing a programming language can be difficult. There are many programming languages that are dying out, just aren’t popular, or are just generally hard to learn. It would be a shame for any first-time programmer to purchase books [...]
Linux console RSS reader Snownews
I read a lot of news. One of the many ways I read news is via RSS feeds. If you don’t know, RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. What an RSS reader does is collect summaries of news feeds from your favorite sites and places them in a simple, easy to read format. Most RSS [...]
Archos 9 Tablet
Archos has been known for making tablets for ages, but recently they have been turning heads with their talks about contributing something to the Android iniciative as well as working on a Windows 7 powered tablet. While the first is exciting in its own right, it’s the latter that has really gotten my attention. Modbook [...]
Windows Software To Create Multiple Folders At Once
There probably are not a lot of users of the Windows operating system who need to create thousands of folders in short time. If you are one of them you can automate the process with the program New Folder Wizard which is capable of creating up to 20000 folders in one run. While my imagination [...]
Microsoft Outlook Mail Attachment Recovery
Most Outlook users think that an email attachment is gone when they delete it in the email client. Only a few know that Microsoft Outlook saves attachments that are considered safe in a temporary Internet files subfolder from where they can be accessed as well if the temporary folder has not been cleared in the [...]
Firefox Form Data Recovery
Have you ever experienced a situation where you finished typing in text in a web form on the Internet only to find out that you could not post it on the website because of server timeouts, web browser crashes or other errors? Going back to that form usually results in it being blank. The only [...]
Claws Mail: Must-have plugins
My last article “Claws Mail: The unsung powerhouse email client” introduced you to an email client you probably had never heard before. If you are a power-user, you will find its many features and options will keep you happy and busy for a long time. If you are a regular user you will appreciate Claws [...]