Mozilla has started spreading a new beta release of Firefox 3.6 to worldwide ftp mirror sites only a day after releasing updates for their Firefox 3.1 and 3.5 web browser series. The new version of the web browser is as usually available for all supported operating systems and languages. The release notes lead to a [...]
User and group administration in Ubuntu 9.10
Linux is a true multi-user environment. This means that more than one user can be logged on at the same time. Because of this many Linux administrators have to deal with the administration of users and groups. Fortunately there are tools for this. From both the command line and the GUI, you can do just [...]
Google Zeitgeist 2009
Google has released the year-end statistics of Google Zeitgeist 2009 which includes information about the most search topics in various niches in 2009. The default statistics show the search queries for the United States with the option to switch the country to view them for several dozen other countries including Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany [...]
Microsoft Releases Free Tinker Game
Tinker was one of the few Windows Vista Ultimate extras that were released by Microsoft. It was a classic puzzle game that put the player in the role of a robot that had to solve 60 levels with classic puzzle elements. Microsoft made an announcement a few weeks ago that they would release some of [...]
Google Browser Size
Google Browser Size is a new web service that has been published by Google Labs that can be used to visualize the browser window sizes of users visiting a specific website. The service will display transparent information on top of the website that has been loaded visualizing how much of the website visitors see without [...]
Norton PC Checkup
Norton PC Checkup is a free software program for the Windows operating system that will perform a PC system scan to detect threats as well as performance and protection problems. The program will schedule scans of the PC once per week with the additional option to start a scan manually at anytime. The system scan [...]
Christmas Giveaway Norton Internet Security 2010
Norton Internet Security 2010 is a security software for the Windows operating system. One could say it is an advanced version of Norton Antivirus 2010 as it contains all the antivirus protection capabilities of that software plus additional means of protection that include a two-way firewall as well as network, email and identity protection. The [...]
Clear Recent Items In Windows 7 Jumplists
Microsoft has introduced so called jumplists in Windows 7. These jumplists are part of the Windows 7 taskbar and appear when the user right-clicks an item in the taskbar. They usually display the most recent items that have been opened and can also contain shortcut links to program functions. One example of this would be [...]
Thunderbird And Firefox Plugin Checker
Many Firefox and Thunderbird users feel that Mozilla has not added enough protection in the software to avoid automatic plugin installation. A recent change in Firefox 3.6 made sure that third parties were not able to make use of the components directory to add their plugins to the web browser but it did not solve [...]