About a week ago Facebook’s own Mark Zuckerberg posted an open letter to the community announcing some long awaited privacy changes to the popular social networking website. What most users would not have expected at that time was how controversial these new privacy settings would be. What Mark announced was better privacy for Facebook users. [...]
Easy flow chart creation with Dia
Lately I have had to use a number of flow charts for articles and presentations. Flow charts are very handy tools to help explain processes, algorithms, and more. A flow chart could be created with a standard graphics or drawing tool (GIMP, Inkscape, or OpenOffice come to mind). But by using such a tool you are [...]
Repair Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player is a build in media player for the Windows operating system. It has been improved by Microsoft in their latest operating system Windows 7 and is used by millions of users. It can happen that problems occur that cannot be fixed that easily by the user as the media player is tightly [...]
Google Quick Scroll For Google Chrome
Have you ever had problems finding the information that you were looking for on a website after performing a Google Search? Most users either read all of the information until their find the relevant part, use the page or browser search to search for the term they are looking for or leave the website out [...]
Mozilla Adds Language Filter On Add-on’s Page
The Mozilla development team that is responsible for the functionality of the website that is offering downloads for Firefox, Thunderbird and other Mozilla projects has changed several key features of the pages that contain the add-ons for the software programs over the last couple of months. Some major changes included filtering experimental add-ons from the [...]
Christmas Giveaway a-squared Anti-Malware
Security software like a-squared Anti-Malware protect the computer system from threats and attacks not only on the Internet but also locally. Unlike its name might suggest a-squared Anti-Malware makes use of two scan engines to protect, detect and remove trojans, viruses, spyware, adware, worms, bots, keyloggers, rootkits and dialers. The software combines the a-squared Anti-Spyware [...]
Youtube And Vevo: What’s The Deal?
Youtube has been one of the prime locations for music buffs around the world to view music videos and listen to music. Many record companies and individual artists use Youtube to promote their products. Users who have been searching for music that is distributed by the major record labels Universal Music Group, Sony Music and [...]
Creating a database with MySQL Administrator
My last article illustrated how to manage your MySQL databases with a simple (albeit outdated) GUI MySQL Navigator (see my article “Manage your MySQL databases with an easy to use GUI“). Although that tool is outdated, it does still work for basic functionality. But there are better tools for managing your MySQL databases. One of [...]
Install Adobe Flash Without Adobe DLM
Adobe has issued an update for Adobe Flash yesterday that fixes a security vulnerability. Most users who received notice about the update are updating Adobe Flash at the official Adobe website. Firefox users who try to update Flash are in for a treat as a message to allow Adobe DLM will pop up when trying [...]