The Windows operating system, or more precisely the Windows Indexing Service and Windows Desktop Search, use so called iFilters to not only index the names of files on storage devices but also their contents. Several iFilters come preinstalled with the operating system. Windows 7 for instance supports mime, html, document, plain text and binary handlers [...]
Build Your Own PC February 2010: PSU, Case And CPU Cooler
We started the February guide of building a PC with the selection of the computer’s cpu, memory and motherboard. This article will add a power supply unit (PSU), a case and the cpu fan to the list of components. We have selected the Intel Core i7-860 as the cpu, the GIGABYTE GA-P55-USB3 as the motherboard [...]
Cancel Google
If you search for cancel Google in search engines you notice that this request can mean lots of different things depending on the user’s intention. The first and most obvious is to cancel a Google account which will remove the account and all Google services that were linked to that account. Google maintains a help [...]
4 Google Picasa Web Albums Download Tools
Google Picasa is a popular photo management software for the Windows operating system. Along with Picasa comes the option to upload and maintain photos in Google Picasa Web Albums to share photos privately or publicly online. The Picasa software contains an uploader to make it as comfortable as possible for the user to upload photos [...]
European Payment Cards Security Problem
A recently released technical paper entitled “Chip and pin is broken” by security researchers Steven Murdoch, Saar Drimer, Mike Bond and Ross Anderson demonstrates a man in the middle attack that lets criminals use stolen payment cards without knowing the pin. This is obviously a serious security problem as banks have always claimed that the [...]
Google Buys Aardvark
Remember Aardvark? The community that was designed around experts that helped other users who experienced problems in their field of expertise? The premise of Aardvark was that every user in the world is an expert in something. Each Aardvark users would be able to ask questions which would then be answered by other users of [...]
Facebook Login Screen Google Problem
Tech savvy computer users enter domain names, which are also commonly known as urls, directly in the web browser’s address bar. Many inexperienced users on the other hand tend to search for the domain that they want to enter by entering the domain name into a search form and not the address bar. An inexperienced [...]
Google Buzz Extensions For Web Browsers
Every tech blog and website in existence seems to have written about Google Buzz at least once since its release a few days ago. That’s a lot of feedback for a relatively new service that received not only a boost from those technology sites but also from the fact that it is a part of [...]
Fast access to templates in GNOME
Right-click on your GNOME desktop and take a look at what is inside the Create Document menu. More than likely nothing. Why is that? This menu, as well as the Nautilus File > Create Document menu, are there for templates. But by default, there are no templates to be found. Why? Because you have to [...]