If you visit your Google Mail account you can look at the footer of the mail index to see how many free space is still available for that account. The current free storage that most Gmail users currently get is 7839 Megabytes which should be enough for the majority of the email users. But there [...]
Microsoft Security Updates November 2009
Microsoft has released six security bulletins today as part of their monthly Tuesday patch day which fix a total of 15 different security vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows. The maximum severity rating for the bulletins contain three critical and three important patches for vulnerabilities that can allow remote code execution and denial of [...]
Finally! Twitter Adds ReTweet Feature!
That is true folks. Twitter finally has a retweet feature. So retweet away to glory I say! It is still in beta and I haven’t gotten around to using it much yet (just noticed it a while ago!) But is this cool or what? Will retweet a few tweets and test it out.
Panda Cloud Antivirus Released Still Free
Panda Cloud Antivirus has been released today after months of being available as a beta version. The antivirus software, which has been offered as a public beta since April 2009, received more press coverage than conventional free antivirus software programs thanks to its cloud based approach. This approach moves some of the virus scanning away [...]
Set up a Gnumed backend server
Recently I covered the front-end of the Gnumed software designed for the medical industry (see “Let your medical practice go open source with Gnumed.”) In that article I showed you how to start working with Gnumed, but limited the installation to using the public servers. Because these public servers can not safely and securely hold [...]
Get Ready For Caffeinated Google Search
Google set up a search sandbox a while ago showcasing and testing their new search algorithm. The public display served not only to show the world that Google was ready to take on the challenges by new search engines like Microsoft’s Bing but also as a testing ground for webmasters who were encouraged to compare [...]
Exif Metadata Editor Jhead
So called exif metadata – or exif data – is automatically added to photos taken by digital cameras. The data that is added to the photo depends largely on the digital camera used but it usually includes information such as the time and date the photo was taken, the camera model, resolution and other technical [...]
Google Chrome Cache Viewer
Chrome Cache View is one of those applications that is not really needed to perform a given task but it makes that task way more comfortable. Like ever web browser Google Chrome uses a cache on the hard disk to save data, to open that data faster on the next time the website is loaded [...]
Thunderbird Note Taking Add-On
One feature that is missing in all versions of the Mozilla Thunderbird desktop email client is the ability to take notes, a feature that has been available in Microsoft Outlook for a long time. Note taking comes in handy in several situations but mostly for adding information to received or send email messages. This can [...]