Panorama software has become more popular in the last years thanks to free applications like Autostitch which automate most of the process. Hugin is another panorama software. The Open Source tool can be seen as the complex brother of Autostitch. Its functionality and options are very extensive which might keep inexperienced users away. Experienced users [...]
Media Collection Management Software Explorer Plus
Explorer Plus sounds like a replacement for Windows Explorer but it is in fact a media collection management software that makes use of Amazon’s vast inventory to offer a semi-automated process of adding collection items to the software’s database. The program needs to be run with administrative privileges, at least under Windows 7, as the [...]
NoScript Might Come To Google Chrome: Eventually
If you search the Internet, e.g. on Google Search or Bing, for requested extensions for the Google Browser you notice that NoScript next to an effective ad blocker tops those listings most of the times. NoScript is a Firefox extension that can block all scripts by default from being loaded when the page is requested. [...]
Google Chrome 5 Debuts
The stable version of Google Chrome 4 was released to the public a short time ago and we mentioned in the review that Google was now targeting both Internet Explorer and Opera version-wise with the possibility that Google Chrome would outpace both browsers in the next 18 months. Today the first developer version of Google [...]
Advice on building a Linux box
I get a lot of questions on Linux hardware: “What’s the best piece of hardware X for Linux?” “Should I go route A since I’m using Linux?” Of course not everyone builds their own computer. But there are a fair number of us out there that would rather keep as much control over the selection [...]
Desktop Wallpaper Resource wallbase
Desktop wallpaper resources are highly popular on the Internet. We previously covered some of the best in our HD Wallpaper listing. Wallbase is a new wallpaper site that hosts a huge selection of more than 370k wallpapers all tagged and sorted to make it easier for the visitor to find and download wallpapers from the [...]
iCare Data Recovery Review
If you have every accidentally lost data that you needed at a later time you know that data recovery is one of the options to recover data. The only other option are data backups but only if they have been created regularly and if the files that need to be accessed have been included. Data [...]
Download Streaming Video With Live Downloader
Streaming video sites are very popular on the Internet with most users probably thinking about Youtube first and then some additional niche websites that stream video content. Users who want to download videos hosted on those websites have basically two options: Use a web browser plugin or a software program. Both options have their distinctive [...]
Avira Malware File-Extension Statistics
Malware is a generic term for trojans, viruses, worms, keyloggers, rootkits and other malicious code. The Avira blog has posted an interesting statistic about the malware that gets distributed by urls either in emails, on websites or other ways. Most computer users probably associated file types like exe as dangerous when they encounter them on [...]