Password recovery questions are great to recover a forgotten password in a matter of seconds. All that needs to be done is to answer the password recovery question to receive a new password in the email inbox. This does however make email hacking a profitable business as email accounts are usually connected to online stores [...]
Should you upgrade your Linux distribution?
So you’re working with Ubuntu 8.04 or Fedora 10 and you’re jonesing over the new release of your distribution. You have always kept up with the most recent releases, but time is critical and your machine is working well. How do you know if you should upgrade? Is it worth it? What would stop you [...]
Europe To Get Standard Phone Chargers
Non-standard phone chargers are one of the most annoying things of cell phones. The lifecycle of a cell phone is usually two years. That’s when the contract ends and a new cell phone is offered as an incentive to stay with the cell phone provider for another two year period. Cell phone manufacturers use their [...]
Sourceforge Website Redesign
Sourceforge is a website that allows developers to host their Open Source applications on. Sourceforge hosts some of the most prestigious Open Source applications on their website including 7-zip, Emule, Notepad++ or SMPlayer. Sourceforge hosts these Open Source projects which basically means that the developers have the means to create websites for their software programs, [...]
SmugMug Album Downloader
SmugMug is a popular photo hosting and sharing website. The main difference between SmugMug and other photo hosting websites like Flickr is the fact that users have to pay for a SmugMug account after an initial 14 day trial period. We do not want to go into more details as to why it might make [...]
Windows Services Manager
Working with services in Windows regularly can be quite the challenge. The official way to manage Windows services is to open Services manager. Once the Services manager has been opened it can be used to start and stop services or to change their startup type. The services manager is fine if the process is done [...]
Trap Spammers with Project Honey Pot
Junk mail is always a pain to deal with. Some junk mail may be stuff you actually sign up for and lost interest in. Spam, however, is stuff that you never signed up for and is often sent to you after some bot saw your email address on some site. Nobody like spam. The guy [...]
Select All Emails From Sender In Thunderbird
Most users of the email client Thundebird – and most likely users of other email clients as well – sort their emails by date. There are other means of sorting emails though like sorting them by subject, sender, priority or attachment. If you sort your emails by date you might have noticed that this is [...]
5 Things we’re still missing from our Smartphones
With the iPhone, Pre, and a whole host of Android devices out the door, the race for the control of the cell phone market is heating up. As things usually go in the cell phone world, there are more battles of who had what first then who actually made it work right. That said, I [...]