Some computer users have been experiencing massive problems in the past when trying to connect their Bluetooth devices to the Windows operating system. One common problem is driver related. It happens that the driver of the Bluetooth adapter is not able to recognize the Bluetooth device that the user wants to connect to the computer [...]
Keep track of your consulting times and invoicing with GnoTime
Keeping yourself on task can be difficult with so many distractions available. From the internet, to colleagues, to music, to just about anything – it seems everything around you is doing its best to keep you from your work. This becomes a real problem with deadlines looming over your head. Can you manage to get that function rewritten [...]
Speed Up Google Analytics
Several webmasters that I have talked to in the last year expressed their concern about Google’s website traffic analyzer Google Analytics. Once of the complaints was that the Analytics script would slow down the loading of the website. Some even moved to other web tracking scripts to make their websites load faster. Everton over at [...]
Windows 7 Codec Pack Download
Windows 7, unlike previous Microsoft operating systems, comes with extended capabilities to play video files out of the box. The operating system comes with codecs to play Divx, Xvid, H.264, AAC and several other popular formats. Those videos can be played with any media player like the included Windows Media Player. But there are still [...]
Microsoft Powerset Adds Semantic Search To Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a popular online encyclopedia that can be a good starting point for researching a specific topic. What Wikipedia sorely needs is a better search engine. Microsoft Powerset is a search engine technology that is powering Microsoft’s own search engine Bing. The Powerset website however is currently being used to demonstrate the Powerset technology [...]
Facebook Privacy Changes Announced
In an open letter to the Facebook community its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, announced some upcoming changes to Facebook privacy settings. The main reason for the privacy changes is connected to the incredible growth of the social networking website. According to Marc the current privacy model of Facebook relies not networks which can be communities, companies [...]
Christmas Giveaway: MediaMonkey Gold
MediaMonkey Gold is an all in one music manager for the Windows operating system. The developers are offering a free version of Media Monkey which for itself is a very capable music manager. MediaMonkey Gold adds features on top of that that make it one of the best Windows music managers. Both versions of MediaMonkey [...]
Thunderbird 3 RC 2
The Mozilla Thunderbird developers have updated the upcoming version 3 of our favorite desktop email client. Thunderbird 3 RC2 is the second release candidate of the email software. It is, from looking at the changes, an unplanned release, as it only fixes four bugs when compared to the first release candidate. One of the bugs [...]
Customize Firefox Toolbars With Total Toolbars
Total Toolbars is a Firefox add-on that extends the options to customize the toolbars of the web browser. One of the biggest additions is the ability to control and customize the icons that are displayed in the Firefox status bar, something that is not offered by default in the Firefox web browser. Several Firefox add-ons [...]