Some computer users use several operating side by side. Could be an avid Linux user who likes to play the occasional game in Windows, a Windows user who installed a test version of the upcoming Windows 7 operating system next to the standard operating system or simply someone who needs different operating systems for different [...]
Start applications using mouse gestures with Easystroke
Efficiency. That is the name of the game when you’re sitting at a keyboard day in and day out. I try very hard to make computing as efficient and easy as possible. One way to make desktop computing easy is to employ mouse gestures. There are certainly easy ways to do this with Firefox using [...]
Quickly capture screens and share them on OS X with Skitch
Macs don’t have a PrintScreen button, and if we want to take a screen-capture, the default program we use is Grab. Grab is great in a few ways; you can choose to use a timer before a screen-capture is taken and it can be used to ensure only a certain area of the screen is [...]
Google Preview
Thumbnail previews in the Google and Yahoo search engines. Love em or hate em. Displaying thumbnails of the websites that are appearing in the search results of Google and Yahoo can contribute to the selection process of the search engine user and to the security of the web browsing experience. Thumbnails allow search engine users [...]
Fastest PDF File Viewer
Adobe PDF is not the fastest pdf reader that is available these days even with programs like Adobe Reader Speedup which remove some of the unneeded features. There are quite a few popular alternatives like Foxit PDF Reader which provide a similar functionality but offer faster startup and loading times. If speed is the main [...]
PC Security: Tips To Make Your PC More Secure
A friend recently asked me a bunch of questions about PC security. How dangerous email was, how people could attack a website and so forth. The answers to his questions led to this article which is not going to cover the usual PC security recommendations that always include using antivirus software, a firewall or malware [...]
Software Freedom Day
Today I thought I would diverge away from my usual tutorials so I could point out that today, September the 19th, is Software Freedom Day. Software Freedom Day is a worldwide celebration of FOSS (Free Open Source Software) that aims to enlighten computer users who do not know about the FOSS alternatives. For this day [...]
Firefox Cache Viewer Gui Frontend
There are two ways to access the Firefox web browser cache. The cache can either be accessed from within the web browser by entering about:cache into the Firefox address bar or by opening the cache directory located in the Firefox user profile on the hard drive. The in-browser solution displays a bare-bone file browser with [...]
How To Record iTunes Radio
Ghacks reader Mitch send me an email today asking for a free solution to record iTunes radio stations. Apple’s iTunes software does not only offer music management features and an online shop for purchasing music and videos but also the means to listen to Internet radio and podcasts. We all know that Internet radio is [...]