Often, when I ask why users don’t adopt Linux, I am met with the response “There are no CAD (Computer Aided Design) applications. Now I will confess that I know next to nothing about CAD, so I thought I would take a moment to highlight some of the CAD applications available for the Linux operating [...]
Facebook Lite
Facebook has activated a lite version of their popular website for users in selected countries. Facebook Lite was initially designed to offer users with slow Internet connections a faster way of accessing the most relevant sections in Facebook. The concept still seems to be valid although only users from selected countries can currently open the [...]
Microsoft Will Upgrade Its Bing Search Engine This Fall
Microsoft’s introduction of its Bing search engine has revived search engine competition it seems. Bing did receive some praise since its introduction and Google has since then reacted by offering search engine users a preview of their upcoming search engine technologies in the form of the sandboxed search engine Caffeine and a limited test run [...]
Thunderbird Quick Folders
There are basically two types of desktop email software users. Type one uses one huge folder for all emails while type 2 neatly sorts emails into subfolders for better manageability. Both methods have their advantages and disadvantages. Method one for example does not provide a good overview of emails that have been send by a [...]
Password Protect Programs
It might be necessary to password protect programs – and other files – if other people have access to a computer system. This can be true for families who share one computer system but also in dorms and even for businesses. The password protection should ensure that a certain program is not executed on a [...]
Add a second drive to your Ubuntu server
You have your Ubuntu Server up and running (with the help of “Installing Ubuntu Server 9.04“) but you’re afraid you’ll run out of room on your drive. To solve this problem you have installed a new hard drive, but because this is a GUI-less server you do not have access to the user-friendly GUI tools [...]
Install iTunes Without Unnecessary Software
Apple has just released iTunes 9 and the web is full of reviews that compare the new version to previous ones and outline the changes and new additions that Apple has packed into the new version of their popular music management software. The new version does not offer that many new features but most users [...]
Play Google Voice Messages In Gmail
Google Voice is a relatively new Google service that can probably be best described as the hub for all phone numbers a user, family or company uses. The main benefit of a single-number approach is that callers will not have to think about which number to call to reach a person. Google Voice users have [...]
Finally: Google Chrome Extensions Turned On By Default In Dev Releases
Not many users understood why the Google Chrome development team decided to operate with lots of switches to manage some functionality of the web browser. Users who wanted to turn on the extension engine had to launch the web browser with a parameter, the same is true for userscript support, bookmark syncing and dozens of [...]