Most websites have tracking system installed. Some internal to analyze and create visitor statistics and many external by embedding advertisement and external website tracking tools in the code. Many users are not aware of these trackers and even fewer know what the individual trackers do and do not do. That’s where Tracker Watcher comes into [...]
Windows Live Messenger Contacts Manager
Windows Live Messenger is a popular instant messenger for the Windows operating system that gets constantly improved (and renamed) by Microsoft. Live Contacts View is a portable software program by one of our favorite developers Nirsoft that can be used to manage the contacts in Windows Live Messenger. Manage in this context meaning to display [...]
Who The Hell Needs Google Chrome Frame?
Innovation is good. Niche software is good as well as there are usually at least some users who might need a program that the majority of users does not even bother thinking about. Google Chrome Frame is a niche product. The niche might however be that small that it lacks the core ingredient: users. Google [...]
Paint.Net 3.5 Beta
I have been using the image editor Paint.Net for a long time. Switched from GIMP to it because it was faster and more responsive. I’m not an artist and only use Paint.net to edit screenshots for my websites and it feels like the perfect image editor for the job. Performance and direct access to the [...]
Mail relaying made simple with Postfix
Have you installed the Postfix as an easier to use, more secure alternative to Sendmail only to find yourself having trouble with the old “unable to relay” errors? This can be very frustrating and have you pulling out your hair in no time. MTAs (Mail Transfer Agents) can be a tricky lot to set up. [...]
Fireshot Screen Capture Software For Internet Explorer and Firefox
Every operating system has its fair share of screen capture software programs. Even the good old PrintScr key is sometimes used if no other software is available to do the job. Programs that work specifically in web browsers are rarer but still available. Fireshot is one of them. It is a screen capture software for [...]
Thunderbird 3 Beta 4 Released
The Mozilla Thunderbird development team has released beta 4 of the upcoming Thunderbird 3 desktop email client. The new version of the popular email client is already available for download at the Mozilla Thunderbird website. Downloads are as usual available for all supported operating systems (Microsoft Windows, Linux and Apple Macintosh) and languages. The release [...]
Check Multiple Gmail Accounts With Gmail Notifier
It is not that easy to check multiple Gmail accounts regularly. Gmail itself only allows one login per user. There are a handful of ways to circumvent that. Probably the most popular ones are using a desktop email client like Microsoft Outlook or Thunderbird to check multiple Gmail accounts or add-ons or userscripts that allow [...]
Directory Size Calculator
The best way to free up some hard drive space is to sort the files and folders of that hard drive by size. Windows Explorer is able to sort the files by size but not the folders. It is possible to get the folder size of one folder by right-clicking on that folder and selecting [...]