It needs a cleverly organized household to keep track of food expiration dates and food that needs to be bought. Some households use a board on the fridge, others use paper and most probably use their feeling when it comes to these things. A user request in the Donation Coder forum led to the interesting [...]
Network Management Software KontrolPack
Cross-platform networks are usually more complicated to manage compared to single-platform systems especially if free network management tools have to be used. The network management software KontrolPack is an Open Source cross-platform network controller that is easy to deploy and operate. KontrolPack is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Macintosh operating systems covering most of [...]
Compare Excel Sheets
What do most Excel users do when they want to compare two sheets of the same document? They usually either navigate back and forth in one Excel window or open a second one and align both Excel windows next to each other to speed up the sheet comparison. Both methods are prone for errors and [...]
Google Fast Flip
Google and Microsoft are constantly working on new services and features of their search engines. Microsoft introduced a visual search option in Bing yesterday which allowed search engine visitors to access and sort information of specific niches visually. Google introduced a new Google Labs feature called Google Fast Flip which is offering a new reading [...]
Access US-Only Services Like Hulu, ABC Or Pandora With UltraVPN
Many companies and organizations limit their services on the Internet to users of a specific country. This is especially true for streaming based services that stream media like music or videos over the Internet. It usually comes down to usage rights as the main reason for the limitation. Others say the limits are there to [...]
Haiku giving life back to BeOS
If you’ve been around long enough you will probably remember the Be operating system. Be began life in 1991 by Be Inc as an operating system for BeBox hardware. There was a lot of excitement about this operating system as it was going to be the be all end all OS for multimedia. The operating [...]
Bing Visual Search
One of the new improvements that Microsoft introduces in their search engine Bing is a Silverlight driven visual search engine. Visual search meaning that pictures will be used to display and navigate the search results instead of text and text links. The benefit is a better search experiment with the limitation that it only works [...]
Firefox 3 History Recovery
Are you a Firefox user who regularly cleans the Firefox history and other traces like downloads from the web browser’s memory? Do you think that these information are really gone and cannot be recovered because you have deleted them? You might want to think again as it is usually possible to recover data on computer [...]
Install Popular Software With Smart Installer Pack
Configuring a newly installed or purchased computer system usually involves installing software programs that are needed for work, entertainment or maintenance. Only a few users go the extra mile and create a custom setup CD that will install the needed software programs automatically. Most uses will search the web, download programs one by one and [...]