If you have followed the news you know that Microsoft is going to introduce the browser choice screen, often also called browser ballot screen, to European users from March 2010 on. Microsoft plans to run an external test in some European countries including England and Belgium first and will expand the delivery to all countries [...]
Tips to help users migrate to OpenOffice
The office suite. Ah the importance you hold over the PC user. You help our business to flow, you help us to draft our papers and novels, and you help us communicate. But what of those users who previously were using Microsoft Office or any other office suite? How does one gain any sort of [...]
Keep Chromium Up To Date
Chromium is the Open Source project behind Google Chrome. Chromium and Google Chrome have many similarities and it is usually the case that new features are integrated into Chromium first before they make they way into the Google browser. One problem that Chromium users experience is that the web browser does not come with an [...]
Internet Explorer HTML5 Video Tag Support
Internet Explorer 8 does not support the new HTML5 tags video or canvas and neither do previous versions of the Microsoft web browser. It is likely that Internet Explorer 9 will be released with full or at least partial support for those tags. Christian Adam has released an experimental add-on for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer that [...]
Integrate Google Calendar Into Thunderbird
If you are a Gmail user chance is that you are also subscribed to other Google services such as Google Calendar. We all know that Thunderbird users can integrate Gmail into the desktop email client to archive messages, access them while they are offline and manage the account almost as if they would use the [...]
Automatic RSS Feed Attachment Downloader
The most common type of RSS feeds is textual. But there are also feeds with regular attachments like photo, video or audio attachments. Some RSS feed readers automatically download those attachments if the feed has been added to that reader while others do not do it or do not provide a comfortable option to download [...]
Install Perl modules using CPAN
If you’ve come across any software that requires Perl modules, you might have found yourself pulling out your hair, trying to figure out how to install those modules. You’ve tried downloading the source, only to find one dependency issue or another. You’ve searched Synaptic or gnome-packagekit high and low to come up empty handed. What [...]
Free Registry Cleaner
A Registry Cleaner scans the Registry for invalid and outdated entries with the option to remove those. This can increase the stability and performance of the Windows operating system. Little Registry Cleaner is an Open Source software program that can scan the Registry in Windows. The application suggests to create a System Restore Point on [...]
10 Firefox SEO Extensions
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is very important on today’s Internet. SEO basically describes all methods of increasing a website’s visibility in the search engines. This can be optimizing the website, link building, monitoring competing websites, link baiting and everything else that is related to that field. New websites are not found by default and SEO, [...]