If you have followed the news of the last days about Firefox’s new JavaScript engine and the implementation of gpu hardware acceleration you can stop reading here. Everyone else, especially the Mozilla Firefox users among them, will most likely be happy to notice that the Mozilla developers have plans to improve the performance of the [...]
Clean up your system with Bleachbit
You never know what is dirtying up your Linux system. Your Bash history, temporary files, usage history, clipboard, free disk space…there’s always a chance something is there that you don’t want. But how do you go through it all? Do we really have the time to actually sift through our machines daily or weekly to [...]
Mafia Wars Autoplay
Mafia Wars is a very popular game on Facebook with thousands of players playing it at any given time of the day. It is a so called browser game in which the player takes on the role of a Mafia member with all sorts of options at hand from fighting opponents to running jobs, buying [...]
Blogging Software To Store Ideas For Future Blog Articles
As a blogger you sometimes come upon an idea or website that you find interesting but do not want to write about right at that moment. Maybe you have already posted your daily quota on your blog or you want to wait until the time is right for that blog post. That leads to a [...]
Profile And Compare Your Web Browser Against Others
Browserscope is a web service to profile the web browser used to access the website and compare the results against web browsers from other users who have tested theirs on the site as well. The service tests various functions that are divided into the categories security, rich text, selector apis, network and acid 3. All [...]
Download Adobe Flash Without Adobe Download Manager
If you are following the official way to install Adobe Flash either globally on the computer system or for one of the supported web browsers you will notice that Adobe is making use of the Adobe Download Manager to deliver the contents. This procedure adds files to the operating system and could pose a security [...]
File Sync Software Create Synchronicity
Create Synchronicity is a portable and lightweight file sync software for the Windows operating system. The file synchronization program can be started after downloading and unpacking the program files. It uses profiles that each define a specific synchronization process. The configuration of a new job is relatively easy. It begins by selecting the source and [...]
Ubuntu 10.4: My first impressions
I couple of months ago I covered what was to be expected in the upcoming release of Ubuntu (Lucid Lynx – 10.4). This release will happen in April 2010 and is much anticipated by users across the globe. I have installed the Alpha of 10.4 and have been using it for a while now. It [...]
Block Websites From Appearing In The Firefox History
For some time Firefox users had the option to enable a private browsing mode if they wanted to visit websites without leaving traces of them on the computer system. They also had the option to remove individual history information from the web browser. History Block adds a third option for Firefox users as it enables [...]