Why is the Internet so damn slow. That’s probably a phrase that every Internet user in the world has said more than once. Even users with fast broadband connections experience slow downs and slow loading websites every now and then as the speed to display a website in the user’s web browser does not only [...]
Save Websites With Mozilla Archive Format
Internet users who want to save single webpages in their web browser can usually do so by going to the File menu of their browser and selecting Save As. This will save the html file along with all the objects of the website in an extra folder on the local computer system. Many users who [...]
WordPress 2.8.6 Security Update
The WordPress developers have just released a security update for their blogging platform WordPress which raises the version of the software to 2.8.6. It is always recommended to update to a new version of WordPress as soon as possible and especially so for a security release. This release fixes two vulnerabilities that are only relevant [...]
Read your RSS feeds on your Linux desktop with Liferea
RSS has become such a common source of information for us information junkies. Whether you are following Ghacks via RSS, your favorite news site, or your favorite blog, it’s nice to be able to get all of those feeds centralized on your desktop. For Linux there are plenty of possible RSS feed readers. One of [...]
Portable Free Stopwatch Program
Need a stopwatch because you want to know how long it takes to write an article, signup at an online service, write an email or load a certain website with your favorite web browser? The stopwatch should also be free, portable and absolutely lightweight? Then Only Stop Watch might be the application that you have [...]
Safari 4.0.4 Released, Update Now
Just a little heads up for you guys. Safari’s new update has been released. Mac OS 10.5.x and 10.6.x can update right now. Check your software update if you have not been notified yet. Screenshot on the other side. It improves on three major points and one of them is better stability for third-party plug-ins. [...]
ZFlick Adobe Air Flickr Photo Viewer
Flickr is probably the most popular photo hosting website on the Internet in these days. It is therefor no surprise that many users like to view and download photos that are hosted on Flickr and even less surprisingly that many application developers have created browser add-ons, standalone applications, userscripts and other kinds of applications to [...]
iPhone Update: Apple Adds Clarity and 3 New iPhone Apps
Apple has taken another small step today towards making the app approval process more clear, making a lot of iPhone devs nod and say “well, something is better than nothing”. Plus we have still more iPhone apps to talk about. Get over to the other side and get started.
How To Manage The Windows 7 Boot Menu
If you have installed Windows 7 on a computer system that was running a different operating system before chance is that you now see that other operating system in the boot menu during startup. There is not really a need for this unless you decided to go with a dual-boot system for some time. Users [...]