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Firefox Batch Image Downloader

Downloading multiple images that are displayed on websites can be a tedious and boring process. The standard procedure without tools and add-ons would be to right-click and select the save image option from the context menu to save each image individually. Download managers, plugins and add-ons aid the user in the process by offering ways [...]

Author: , Thursday November 5, 2009
Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Double Anti-Spy Professional Review And Giveaway

The anti-spyware niche and the security software niche in general are crowded with lots of companies competing with their software programs for market share. It is difficulty to get a foothold in that market even with a good product as other factors than the product’s effectiveness play a role in the market. Double Anti-Spy Professional [...]

Author: , Thursday November 5, 2009
Categories: Security, Software, Windows

Free Web Proxy Checker

A problem with most proxy servers and web proxies is that many tend to stop working after a while. The majority of web proxy servers are rather short lived with only a minority of popular ones that make it past the first six months of their existence. There are many reasons for this with the [...]

Author: , Wednesday November 4, 2009
Categories: Software, Windows

Google Chrome To Get Automatic Userscript Support

Until now userscript support in the Google Chrome web browser was severely limited by the fact that the user had to copy the userscripts into a folder of the Chrome profile. Recent versions of the Chromium browser outline what users of the Google Chrome dev releases are soon going to experience as well. Google apparently [...]

Author: , Wednesday November 4, 2009
Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Starting services at boot in Linux

There are plenty of times when you may want to add a new service to start when your Linux machine boots. Or you may want to stop a service from starting upon boot. And, like nearly every aspect of Linux, there are many ways to deal with this scenario. And different distributions handle this in [...]

Author: , Wednesday November 4, 2009
Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Software

MSN.Com Gets An Overhaul After Ten Years

MSN.com is one of the most popular websites on the Internet with roughly 100 million unique visitors per month that come to the website. The design of the Internet portal has not changed a lot in the last ten years. Users who are visiting the old MSN page notice a lot of links and elements [...]

Author: , Wednesday November 4, 2009
Categories: The Web

Tab Preview Features In Firefox 3.6

Mozilla has integrated several new tab preview features in the recent release of Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 which were initially planned to be integrated into earlier release versions of Firefox 3. Even more problematic than the late implementation of this features is the fact that they are not enabled by default in the web browser. [...]

Author: , Wednesday November 4, 2009
Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Add Flickr Access To Windows Explorer

Just a few days ago we reviewed the Windows Explorer plugin Windows Live Skydrive Explorer which allowed Windows Live users to access their Skydrive files in Windows Explorer. The plugin made it more comfortable to work with the files that were hosted at Microsoft’s online storage service. Flickr Drive Shell is a similar plugin for [...]

Author: , Wednesday November 4, 2009
Categories: Software, Windows

Pin Tabs In Firefox

The Google Chrome browser provides access to a feature to pin tabs in the web browser by default. Pinned tabs will be moved to the left side of the tabbar where their tab will be changed to a smaller icon that is showing only the favicon of the website in question. The benefit of this [...]

Author: , Wednesday November 4, 2009
Categories: Browsing, Firefox

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