The hosts file is a local file in Windows and other operating systems that contains directives to map specific hosts to IP addresses which are prioritized over other means of DNS lookups like DNS servers. Quite a few applications exist for hosts files including blocking advertisement and other malicious domains from the computer system or [...]
Create rsync backups easily with the help of Gadmin-rsync
Recently I covered one of the Gadmintools, Gadmin-Samba (see my article “Configure Samba with Gadmin-samba“). The Gadmintools set of tools is a set of GUI administration tools (hence the name “Gadmin”) for the Linux operating system that takes often-complex tasks and makes them far easier. One of those tasks is backing up with Rsync. Of [...]
Google Chrome History Manager
Google Chrome’s web history manager displays a neat list of visited websites sorted by date with options to search for specific pages using the search form at the top of the screen. The listing can get very crowded as the Chrome browser records the access of every page on every domain that the user has [...]
Windows 7 Reliability Monitor
The reliability monitor is a control panel application introduced in Windows Vista that provides information about a computer’s reliability and problem history. The reliability monitor displays a timeline (in days or weeks) of five different system events that can be further divided into failures, warnings and information. The five events that are monitored are application [...]
Internet Explorer Tweaker
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 is an excellent web browser and a step in the right direction. Many experts believe that Microsoft will be able to close the gap that currently exists between Internet Explorer 8 and the other web browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox or Opera with the release of Internet Explorer 9. Internet Explorer [...]
Block Avira Antivir Popup And Update Window
Avira Antivir is a popular free antivirus software that is installed on millions of computer systems. Computer users who have installed it do however encounter two annoyances that are linked to updates that are usually performed on a daily basis. Avira will display a large popup on every update that usually advertises the commercial version [...]
Remove Background From Photos With Instant Mask
It is sometimes necessary to remove backgrounds from images or photos to continue working with the remaining part only. This can for instance be interesting when trying to copy and paste several objects or people from different photos into a newly created image or when the background needs to be exchanged with a different one. [...]
Configure Samba with Gadmin-Samba
For those new to Samba, the configuration of this provider of seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients can sometimes be a nightmare. Not only are you dealing with tricky configuration files, you also have to worry about getting users added to encrypted password files. Of course if you want to tackle this the old-school [...]
Turn Off Crash Logging In Flash 10.1 Beta
You might want to consider turning off crash logging in Flash 10.1 beta if you are experiencing lots of disk activities whenever Flash content is accessed in the web browser. The first indicator of a bug or at least a problem was the constant disk activities whenever Flash content was accessed. Rafael over at Within [...]