The cost factor plays an important role in the netbook development process. The mini-laptops have to be cheap and it can sometimes happen that some components are shipped in a lower quality than they could be. Some Asus Eee PC models (like the Asus Eee PC 1005HA-M Netbook) for instance ship with moderate display brightness [...]
Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1
The Firefox developers have released the first alpha version of the upcoming Firefox 3.6 web browser.The new version is clearly marked as a developer and test version which means it is not recommended to use this version as the main web browser on a computer system. The development milestone of Firefox 3.6 is build on [...]
Peer Block Continues Where Peer Guardian Left Off
Peer Guardian is without doubt a popular security software that uses blacklists to block connection attempts to a computer system. Various blacklists are provided including those listing IPs of anti-p2p organizations, government and educational IPs but also adware and spyware servers. A problem that users of Peer Guardian experience are crashes and several other issues [...]
Use Wireshark to track your network behavior
Any time I need network analysis I turn to Wireshark. Wireshark is, in my opinion, the defacto standard for network protocol analyzers. Not only is it incredibly powerful, useful, and user-friendly it is also FREE! But what exactly is Wireshark? Simple: Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer that watches and logs all incoming and outgoing [...]
Online Video Converter
You have basically two options if you want to convert a video from one format into another. You can either use software programs that run on the computer system to convert the videos or use online converters to do the same. Both methods have their limitations and uses. The desktop video converter can for example [...]
Eco-Friendly Printer RiTi Suggests Coffee And Tea Instead Of Ink
Many computer users have one thing in common: They drink coffee, lots of it. The coffee dregs usually lands in the bin. This can be a thing of the past if the eco-friendly printer RiTi makes it from concept to prototype in the near future. The RiTi Printer replaces traditional printer ink with coffee or [...]
Firefox And Thunderbird Image Zooming
The Firefox web browser comes with the ability to zoom in and out of websites. There is however no way of zooming only specific elements of a website which can be a problem if only specific elements such as images need to be zoomed. The Firefox and Thunderbird extension Image Zoom adds to the zooming [...]
Multimedia Collection Software
Many computer users have part – or even all – of their collections on computer systems these days. Either because they have downloaded multimedia files from the Internet or transferred the items to the computer system. The multimedia collection software myCollections takes advantage of this development by offering an straightforward way of dealing with digital [...]
Analyse Blue Screen Errors In Windows
Blue screen errors seem to be less frequent than years ago when users were still running Windows 95 or even Windows XP. Blue Screens basically display an error message cause by an error that the Windows operating system could not handle. This can be faulty hardware drivers or software programs among other things. The only [...]