Today a loyal reader sent me a message saying he enjoyed the Alternative Linux web browsers article and was hoping I could apply the same idea to PDF viewers. The truth of the matter is that nearly every PDF viewer in Linux is an alternative. Yes we Linux users do get to enjoy Acrobat Reader to [...]
Join the Microsoft Security Essentials Ongoing Beta
Microsoft has released the final version of their security software Microsoft Security Essentials on the same day that they have released their latest operating system Windows 7. Microsoft Security Essentials is a free antivirus software for the Windows operating system that can be downloaded and installed on PCs that pass a genuine advantage check. Neowin [...]
Manga Reader MangaMeeya
Mangas are very popular these days both in the “real” world but also on the Internet. There are lots of places where Manga fans can read Mangas online. Websites like One Manga or Manga Fox are popular locations to read the latest Mangas online. Some users on the other hand prefer to download Mangas to [...]
Check Music Collections For Missing Cover Art With CovArt Ops
Many modern media players like Winamp, Windows Media Player or iTunes display cover art and other information about the music that is currently playing in their interfaces. The same is true for cell phones and hardware mp3 players that usually also come with that option. There are however a few problems related to cover art [...]
Post-Processing Scanning Software Scan Tailor
Not every scanning software offers the means to post-process the scanned documents. Even those that do sometimes do not make it very comfortable for the user to process large quantities of scanned papers. That’s where the Open Source scanning software Scan Tailor might step in. Scan Tailor is “an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages” [...]
Mozilla Add-Ons Sort Broken?
The Mozilla website hosts – among other programs and files – the web browser Firefox and the email client Thunderbird. The very same website is also a directory for Firefox and Thunderbird add-ons which can be browsed and downloaded from the website. Add-ons can be sorted in various ways including by popularity, date, name or [...]
Change Default Programs Temporarily With Coffee
Let us say that you are in a situation where you would like to change some default programs temporarily in Windows. You might want to do this to test out a new program without having to use the right-click context menu or the program’s file browser to open files with it or you might be [...]
Alternative Linux web browsers
You know Firefox like the back of your hand. You’ve heard tale of Chrome and you know KDE has tried to pawn Konqueror off as their default browser. In the distance you hear Opera calling your name and IE4Lin tries to woo you to the dark side. Browsers, the lot of them. You can’t go [...]
Zonealarm 9.1 Firewall Free Windows 7 Released
If you look around you will notice that most download sites offer ZoneAlarm 8.0.298 on their websites when in fact version 9.1.007.002 of Zonealarm is the newest version. The Zonealarm website itself links to a download over at download.com that is offering version 8 of the Zonealarm firewall. Zonealarm 9.1 on the other hand has [...]