Microsoft’s new search engine Bing is doing quite well in several search engine marketing studies. It could do better and one interesting idea that the Microsoft researchers had was to create a game that would help the search results to be better. The game is an experimental game that is currently available on the Microsoft [...]
Microsoft Internet Explorer Security Update
Microsoft has released a critical security fix for their Internet Explorer web browsers. The vulnerability, actually its more than one that are patched by the cumulative patch, affect most Internet Explorer still in use by users worldwide including Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7 and the latest version Internet Explorer 8. The vulnerability does only [...]
Open and edit PDF files in OpenOffice
I get this a lot “How can I open and edit PDF files without having to purchase a costly application like QarkXPress”? Before OpenOffice extensions came about my answer to that would be “Not easily”. But now, thanks to a very useful tool created by Sun, editing a PDF file is as simple as adding [...]
Address Book Software Open Contacts
Open Contacts is a free Open Source address book software that comes with an extensive set of options and a rather outdated user interface. Several import options are available for new users who downloaded the address book software for the first time. Contact data can be imported from various popular software programs such as Mozilla [...]
Postbox Beta 14, Announces Pricing
The desktop email client Postbox received quite a lot of attention lately on various technology news sites including Lifehacker, Download Squad and even Techcrunch. All websites spoke in favor of the desktop email client and liked new features such as the ability to view attachments out of context (meaning instead of searching for the email [...]
Firefox Bookmark Sorting Extension SortPlaces
The firefox web browser does not offer many bookmark sorting options. The only option that is actually provided by right-clicking a folder is to sort the bookmarks by name. This is however not a permanent sort order as it gets disrupted as soon as new bookmarks are added to the folder. The sort order by [...]
Youtube Videos Downloader TubeQueue
You have many different programs and services at your disposal if you want to download videos from the popular video portal Youtube. There are web browser add-ons, bookmarklets and desktop applications that can all download Youtube videos. Some can only download one video at a time while others provide a more sophisticated solution to queue [...]
DVD Burning Software Imgburn Updated
I started using Nero Burning Rom back in the days of the – super expensive – CD burners. It was an excellent CD burning software program but deteriorated into a resource hungry collection of applications and background processes. That’s when I decided to skip Nero and uninstall it from the computer system. I did find [...]
Create Your Personal Online Hub with Card.ly
For more and more people these days, our identities are centered online. Whether you have a company, a blog, or just a Facebook page, most of us have some sort of online presence. The problem arises, however, when we’ve got more than one space online where we’re present. And that’s true for a huge, and [...]