We have all read the news that Google is planning to enter the operating system market with their soon to be released Google Chrome OS which is initially targeting the netbook market. Google Chrome OS is based on Google’s web browser Google Chrome and a Linux kernel. Little information are know as of yet. The [...]
Switch To Compact Headers In Thunderbird 3
The standard email header in the mail client Thunderbird 3 spans across three rows. It displays information such as the the sender’s email, the subject, email recipient and toolbar buttons to quickly reply, forward, delete or tag the email. The email header can be expanded to display all email header information which are important if [...]
Google Maps Downloader Offline Maps
Google Maps is an interesting service for quite a few purposes. It can be used to get directions or take a closer look at a specific location on the planet. Many mashups extends its functionality making it without doubt one of the most popular map applications on the Internet. Google Maps does require an Internet [...]
Add CryptKeeper for on-the-fly encrypted folders in Linux
You’ve more than likely read Martins’ piece about the outstanding encryption tool Truecrypt “TrueCrypt 6.1 Released” and have used it to create easy to use, encrypted file systems on Windows machines. Of course TrueCrypt is also available for Linux as well. But what if I told you there was an even easier system to use [...]
PageZipper Makes Browsing Multiple Pages More Comfortable
Ever been to a website that likes to divide articles into multiple pages to artificially increase their pageviews and thus advertisement revenue? I remember websites that would display every item of a top 50 or top 100 list on individual pages with each page consisting of a few sentences and a screenshot. The Firefox add-on [...]
Arp++ Windows Advanced Remove Programs Software
The remove programs module in the Windows Control Panel offers basic means to uninstall software in Windows. The tool is severely limited which becomes obvious when problems are encountered. Every Windows user will likely experience situations where software cannot be removed using the standard remove programs module. The uninstallation simply stops or does not start [...]
Digital Image Processing Software
Digital Image Tool is a free digital image processing software that has been specifically designed to batch process images. The developers state that it is a portable software program although it is only supplied as an installer which is somewhat confusing. It is likely that the software can be copied anywhere after the initial installation [...]
Install Prism on Linux for easy to use web apps
If you are a web junkie, or depend upon various web sites and services daily you know how quickly your browser can fill up with tabs. Wouldn’t it be nice if you can just use small web apps for these needs? And since that seems to be the way the computing is evolving, it only [...]
Video Conferencing And Collaboration Software iVisit Presenter
IVisit Presenter is an easy to use video conferencing and collaboration software that has been recently released to the public as a beta version. The software can be freely used in one on one video conferences with the option to purchase the commercial edition of the software that raises the participants count to a maximum [...]