The debut of Google Chrome 5 a few days ago brought a new Content Settings menu that promised to deliver better content control to Chrome users. Back then the settings where not selectable which caused some confusion. The latest Google Chrome dev channel release however has filled those content settings with live. The Content Settings [...]
Copy Files From Multiple Folders Simultaneously
Lets say you have ten different folders that store files. The files can be photos, documents, videos or anything else, it does not really matter. It is now your task to select some files from each folder and copy or move those files to a new location so that the selected files can be processed [...]
Waste plenty of time with Frozen Bubble and gnubik
Let’s face it, we sit at our computers for hours on end. Be it administrating, working, or just plain killing time. Everyone knows that the interwebs is a sure-fire time killer. But what happens, gasp, when those interwebs are down and you’ve no way to pass time? You shrivel up and die right? No! You [...]
Fix File Associations After Virus Attack
A successful attack with a computer virus can have all kinds of negative impact on a computer system. From data that is transferred to third parties over advertisement popups to encrypted drives that can only be decrypted after paying a ransom to tampering with the operating system to make it harder for the user to [...]
Academic Earth Offers Free Educational Videos
Look it up on the Internet. That’s what most tech-savvy people do if they encounter a problem or run into difficulties. The Internet is a vast resource of knowledge but that knowledge is usually located on different websites. That’s what Richard Ludlow, the founder of Academic Earth, noticed when looking for help in linear Algebra. [...]
Personalize E-Mail Messages With BCC This
E-Mails can be send to one or multiple users. A problem arises when sending out mails to multiple users as there is no way of personalizing emails for individual recipients except for using scripts that need to be added to the email. (Thunderbird can for instance do that with the mass mail and personal mail [...]
What Is Mozilla Prism Again?
Beta 3 of Mozilla Prism 1.0 has just been released and it is probably a good idea to answer a question that is probably in your mind right now: What is Mozilla Prism again and why would I need it? Mozilla Prism is offered as a Firefox extension and standalone application. It can basically turn [...]
Mozilla Promises Better Virus Scanning After Virus Faux Pas
Mozilla performs antivirus scans on add-ons that are added by developers to the add-on repository. These add-ons are then offered as experimental add-ons until they pass a human review which adds them fully to the add-on directory. It came to light today that two add-ons that have been offered at the add-on repository had been [...]
Covert .mp3 to .wav and .ogg from command
I have a ton of various music files on my machine that are in various states of migrating from .mp3 to different formats. The primary reason for this is because of the issue of licensing between Linux and the MP3 format. And although there are GUI tools to do nearly every job you need, there [...]