Unlocker has always been one of the first programs that I installed on a new computer system. The software offers a very convenient way of deleting files that are locked by a process. Every Windows user will experience those situations eventually and Unlocker can help the user in this case. The biggest change in Unlocker [...]
Microsoft Security Updates March 2010
Microsoft yesterday released security patches for Windows and Office products on their monthly Patch Tuesday. A total of two security bulletins have been released by Microsoft that patch flaws in Microsoft Excel, Windows Movie Maker and Microsoft Producer 2003. The severity of both security bulletins has been rated as important. Attackers can exploit the issues [...]
Ribbon Hero Teaches Office In A Playful Way
There are two types of Office users: Those who know everything – or nearly everything – about the program and those that do not. The latter group usually has to look really hard, consult an online help, book or colleague if they have to do something in Microsoft Office that they have not done before [...]
FTP Sync Software
FTP Sync is a free command line application to synchronize files between two ftp sites or local directories. Its main purpose is to automate the synchronization of files between two ftp servers or between a ftp server and a local directory. This can be helpful for instance for webmasters or coders who design their websites [...]
Google Chrome Delicious Extension
Users of the social bookmarking service Delicious were only able to use a bookmarklet in combination with the Google Chrome web browser if they wanted to improve their workflow when bookmarking new websites. The Delicious team has been hard at work to provide their Google Chrome users with an extension that would offer them the [...]
Computer Table Routing Tables Software NetRouteView
The standard way of displaying computer network routing tables is to use the command line tool route.exe in Windows. The route.exe print command for instance displays all active IPv4 and IPv6 routes on the computer network. NetRouteView is basically a graphical user interface of the command sans the IPv6 information which are currently not supported [...]
Readability Firefox Add-On
Most websites on the Internet are not only made up of information but also other content that might be seen as a distraction sometimes. Elements like advertisements, logos or navigational menus can distract from the main content of the website and tools like Readability remove the clutter from websites so that it is easier to [...]
Install Avira Antivir on Linux
In yesterday’s post (see “Scan a Windows drive for viruses using Linux“) in which I mentioned the Avira Antivir software. This piece of software is a commercial, cross-platform anti-virus solution that offers both a GUI and a command line interface. For this article we will only deal with the command line version of the tool. [...]
Configure The 7-Zip Windows Explorer Context Menu
The popular compression software 7-Zip integrates itself nicely into Windows Explorer to make compression related tasks comfortable. Depending on the file selecting options are displayed to compress or uncompress the selection. Usually a lot of options are displayed when right-clicking files or folders in Windows Explorer which makes it more complex than necessary to selected [...]