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My Current Firefox Setup

The last article that listed the extensions and themes of my personal Firefox setup dates a while back and I thought it would be nice to post an updated list of my personal setup. This setup works for me very well but I’m not thinking it is the ultimate one. To be honest, I do [...]

Author: , Tuesday November 10, 2009
Categories: Browsing, Firefox

iPhone Apps: Message In A Balloon, Knocking Over MMS And Premium Shazam

Today we have three new iPhone apps for you. Actually that should be two and a half new apps because Shazam was already there. But the other two are really great apps, especially because one of them lets you share your photos instantly just like MMS but without depending on your lame carrier to finally [...]

Author: , Tuesday November 10, 2009
Categories: iPhone

Basic postgresql server setup

So many tool require databases. If you are a web administrator or a company with large stores of information, then you know the importance of databases. One of the most oft-used databases available is MySQL. But that is not the only player on the court. Another cross platform object-relational database management tool is PostgreSQL. Many [...]

Author: , Tuesday November 10, 2009
Categories: Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Advanced

RouteRank Finds The Fastest, Cheapest And Most CO2 Friendly Travelling Route

Ever asked yourself if you should take the car, train or plane on your next holiday or business trip? Maybe you have even tried to calculate the traveling time and expenses for the various traveling options. Doing that manually can take quite some time. That’s where the new web service routeRank steps in. RouteRank queries [...]

Author: , Monday November 9, 2009
Categories: Open Source, The Web

iRingtones Creates And Adds iPhone Ringtones To iTunes

Are you a cell phone owner who pays for ringtones? Are you someone who recently searched for answers to questions like “how to use iTunes ringtones” or “how to find free iPhone ringtunes”? If you do you might like the following comfortable way of creating and adding new ringtunes automatically to Apple’s iTunes software. The [...]

Author: , Monday November 9, 2009
Categories: Apple, iPhone

Firefox App Tabs Add-On

Remember Pin Tabs? The Firefox add-on that we reviewed recently was mysteriously deleted from the Firefox add-on repository over at the Mozilla Firefox website. No one knew why it was deleted and it was not clear at that point in time if the developer would make it available again. The wait is now over with [...]

Author: , Monday November 9, 2009
Categories: Browsing, Firefox

YouScrobble A Last.FM And Youtube Mashup Service

Services that make use of the vast video and audio archive that is Youtube are springing out of the ground more recently in this year. YouScrobble is the latest service that is combining Youtubes video archive with the information provided by the music service Last.fm. This combination alone proves to be very effective. Users who [...]

Author: , Monday November 9, 2009
Categories: The Web

Windows 7 Firewall Control

The firewall in Windows 7 is a solid software firewall. It is by far not as advanced as third party firewalls but it does a good job at protecting a computer system running Windows 7. The functionality of the firewall has been improved ever since Microsoft starting shipping Windows XP versions with the software firewall. [...]

Author: , Monday November 9, 2009
Categories: Security, Software

PayPal Login

PayPal is a widely used financial service that allows people from all over the world to transfer money to other PayPal users by simply specifying an email address the money should be send to. It has become even more popular in recent years with the eBay tie-in which practically made PayPal the preferred payment method [...]

Author: , Monday November 9, 2009
Categories: Security

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