Gamers have a few choices when it comes to ingame voice communications. Many games today offer voice chat that has been build into the game so that no external software is required to communicate with friends, allies and enemy players. But voice communication software for gamers offers several advantages over ingame solutions. The main advantages [...]
Christmas Giveaway Sandboxie
Sandboxie adds a new layer of security to the Windows operating system as it can run programs in a sandboxed environment so that they cannot manipulate data outside of that box. That’s the basic concept and it comes in handy in numerous occasions like executing downloaded programs in the sandbox to protect the rest of [...]
WordPress 2.9 Released
The WordPress developers have released version 2.9 of their popular blogging script WordPress which can be downloaded from the official WordPress website. Users who have configured automatic updates can also upgrade to the new version of WordPress from within their blogs. It is however recommended to backup the files and database before initiating the update. [...]
Latest Firefox Nightlies Comes With Multi-Process Support
One of the new trends in web browser development is to separate various modules of the web browser, like different tabs and the core engine, in different processes to increase the web browser’s stability and security. Currently only Google Chrome and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer support these techniques. Lately though the guys behind the Mozilla Firefox [...]
Managing Microsoft compiled html help files in Linux
If you’ve worked in Windows long enough, you have come across the .chm file format. This format is nothing more than a compressed html directory with an included index for easy viewing. Problem is, you can’t view these files in Linux without the help of another tool. And sometimes you want to be able view [...]
Create Windows 7 Jumplists With Jumplist Launcher
The Windows 7 taskbar is without doubt one of the biggest usability changes in Windows 7. And jumplists are part of that next to programs that can be pinned to the taskbar and thumbnail previews that are displayed when hovering the mouse over active icons. Jumplists on the other hand become active when a user [...]
Free E-Book: First Look Microsoft Office 2010
It is a little bit more than six months until Microsoft releases the next version of their popular Office suite Office 2010. Interested users have already the chance to test a beta version of Microsoft Office 2010 which has been available for some time now. Microsoft has released a free e-book a few days ago [...]
Christmas Giveaway Giganews Accounts
The Usenet can be best described to users who have never come in contact with it as a global forum with hundreds of thousands of groups and the ability for everyone to post and reply. The messages that get posted and read are called articles or posts and they are posted to so called newsgroups [...]
uTorrent 2.0 Release Candidate Out
The uTorrent developers have just released the first release candidate of upcoming uTorrent 2.0 complete with UDP tracker support and a new transfer cap to track bandwidth usage more effectively. The biggest change in the release candidate is the UDP tracker support which is a different protocol for tracker communication which uses less processing power [...]