Netbooks usually run at limited screen resolutions which often fail to display websites and services properly. And those that are displayed properly still need to be scrolled so that all of the content of the website can be accessed on the netbook. Netbook users who access Gmail on the web face the same problem. Many [...]
What is it with the “dist-upgrade” option of apt-get?
There has always been a bit of confusion when people learn they can do a full upgrade of their distribution from the command line. Most people don’t brave such a feat. Some because they don’t use the command line, and others because they are afraid an attempt to upgrade from the command line will wind [...]
PDF OCR Turns PDF Documents Into Text
It sometimes happens that text in a pdf document cannot be selected in a pdf reader like Adobe Reader or Foxit Reader. This is usually the case with scanned documents that have been embedded into the pdf file. One of the options to work with the text in those pdf documents is to use OCR [...]
Thunderbird 3.1 Beta Desktop Email Client Released
An update to the desktop email client Thunderbird was released by the Mozilla Messaging developers. Thunderbird 3.1 Beta has been released replacing the previously available alpha version of the email software. Thunderbird 3.1 Beta is a preview release that fixes a total of 96 different bugs including crash, performance and security fixes. One of the [...]
How To Pin Files And Folders To The Windows 7 Taskbar
Microsoft has added some interesting new features to the taskbar in Windows 7. This includes the ability to pin programs to it and make use of jumplists to access program functions and recently used files. Some users recently contacted me asking if there was a way to add files and folders to the taskbar. And [...]
Google Calendar Gets Three New Features
Google Calendar is a calendar application that is integrated into several other Google services like Gmail. A labs section is provided by for Google Calendar users that provides access to experimental features. The Google Calendar features can easily be activated in the labs section and Google just announced the addition of three new Calendar Labs [...]
Old Internet Explorers Affected By Security Vulnerability
Microsoft has posted a security advisory about a new security vulnerability that is affecting older Internet Explorer , precisely Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7. Microsoft’s latest web browser Internet Explorer 8 is not affected by the vulnerability according to the security advisory. The impact of the vulnerability is a remote code execution that [...]
Rescue that infected Windows machine with Trinity Rescue
Sticking with our current theme of rescuing, we will now focus our magnifying glass another another useful Linux tool – Trinity Rescue Kit.TRK is another live Linux distribution, but with a different spin. Instead of being a live CD who’s purpose is to do just about everything, Trinity wants to really only do two things: Recover [...]
Twitter Starts Scanning Direct Links To Improve Security
Twitter has been targeted by users with malicious intents ever since it started to become increasingly popular. One of the biggest problems up to yesterday were direct messages which one Twitter user could send to another. Links posted in those direct messages were not scanned by Twitter before they were send out, only after they [...]