The guys over at Donation Coder are celebrating the new year in their own way by holding a coding challenge each year that invites regulars and first timers to pledge to the cause and create an application or game before the new year begins. The results of this year’s New Apps for a New Year [...]
Create a simple to use kiosk machine with Fluxbox
Have you ever had to create a kiosk PC for use in a business so that customers can either search a database of products or check out your services on line? If so, and you’ve tried to do this with Windows, you know how complex a task it can be. First and foremost – you [...]
Enable Windows Aero In Unsupported Windows Editions
Windows Aero is the standard graphical user interface that most Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems ship with. Microsoft made the decision during the Windows Vista release to block some or even all Aero effects in some editions of the operating system and has continued that strategy during the release of Windows 7. To [...]
Change File Access Rights With Take Ownership
File permission problems are more common in Windows Vista and Windows 7 than in Windows XP. That’s something that Windows XP users for instance notice when migrating to those operating systems. A common problem encountered by many users is for instance the inability to write specific files like the Windows hosts file or settings of [...]
Watch Youtube Videos With Your Friends With Synchtube
I sometimes wish that I would be there when my friend, a family member or colleague watches the Youtube video that I have discovered. It sometimes happens if the url of the Youtube video is submitted via a chat interface. I usually open the Youtube video again which is then more or less in sync [...]
Image Editor Paint.net 3.5.2 Released
The popular image editor Paint.net has been updated by its developers to version 3.5.2 Paint.net is a free image editor for the Windows operating system that – like GIMP – offers most options and features that are usually only found in commercial image editors. The image editing software offers all the basic image editing options [...]
LemonPOS: Linux Point of Sale
I work with Quickbooks Point of Sale which is considered, by most, to be the de facto standard of Point of Sale systems. The clients that use Quickbooks POS are medium to large businesses that can actually afford both the software and the support necessary to ensure the system is up and running 24/7. But [...]
Improve Facebook With Facebook Fixer For Google Chrome
Popular web services like Facebook, Gmail or Yahoo Mail can usually be enhanced with browser add-ons and userscripts that add or change functionality directly on the websites. Facebook Fixer is one of the first extensions for the Google Chrome web browser that improves the user experience on Facebook extensively. It is a port of the [...]
RSS Feed Reader RSSOwl
RSS feed readers can be divided into the two major categories online and desktop feed readers with desktop feed readers again divided into standalone applications and readers that are part of a software suite. Prominent examples of feed readers are Google Reader in the online category, Microsoft Outlook or Opera in the integrated reader category [...]