It is not often that I go on holidays. This can be mainly attributed to the fact that my work and spare time balance was leaning towards lots of work and not so much spare time. This is going to change and it is starting tomorrow with a seven day trip to Jerusalem. I just [...]
Change default and preferred applications in KDE
In my last article, “Change default and preferred applications in GNOME“, I illustrated how to change the default applications that will launch in association with certain file types. Now it is time to reciprocate for the KDE desktop environment. Many people assume the KDE desktop environment is just as flexible as the GNOME desktop. In [...]
Latest Google Chrome 4 Dev Release Fixes Lots Of Bugs
The current Google Chrome releases that are available for download can be cause for some real confusion as the official release version for the public is still Google Chrome 2 while the Google Chrome developers are already working on Google Chrome 4. The latest development release of the Google browser is Google Chrome 4.0.202.0. It [...]
Download Pictures From The Internet With Open Image
Internet users have quite a selection of tools at hand to download pictures from Internet websites. All modern web browsers come with options to save single pictures and most offer add-ons and plugins to download multiple pictures in batch mode from Internet sites. Open Image is a software program for the Windows operating system that [...]
Search Multiple Video Search Engines With Videosurf
Videosurf is a video search website that can search multiple video portals at once. Support video websites are among others Youtube, Hulu, Google Videos, Dailymotion, CNN Video, Reuters and dozens more. Video search results are mixed from all video portals and displayed on the website. One interesting feature of Videosurf are the categories that are [...]
Firefox: Edit Forms On Websites In External Editors
t’s All Text is an interesting add-on for the firefox web browser that allows Firefox users to fill out web forms in an external text editor. External text editors have many advantages over the build in way of adding text to web forms in Internet browsers. They usually provide a deeper functionality that includes macros, [...]
Help the fight against phishing with Phishtank
For anti-phishing tools to work, phishing sites must be identified to analyse and to warn people about. Sites like Web of Trust allow users to share information about phishing sites, but scores of similar tools exist and as it would be counter-productive for each to maintain their own database of phishing sites. PhishTank centralises phishing [...]
Auto Resize Email Picture Attachments In Thunderbird
Modern digital cameras can produce large photos which makes it difficulty to send them to email recipients due to their sizes. Problems become apparent when the sending of the email takes a long time but also when the emails are rejected by the recipient’s email provider due to their total size. Computer users can resize [...]
Computer Memory Optimizer Minimem
Many computer users believe that memory optimizers are software programs that offer barely any positive effect. Some computer memory optimizers reduce the memory by raising the virtual memory instead, others degrade performance by optimizing the memory while others do nothing at all. Roman send in a link of the computer memory optimizer Minimem that might [...]