For those of you who are lucky enough to have the Elive distribution running on your desktop you might have noticed there is no CCSM (Compiz Config Settings Manager). At least not that you can find. You can’t run the command ccsm and you can’t install the application ccsm. At one point Elive had a [...]
How I Freed Up 12 Gigabytes Of Hard Disk Space In Windows 7
I recently build a new computer system that uses Windows 7 Professional 64-bit as its operating system and a very fast Intel Solid State Drive with 80 Gigabytes of storage space as the primary hard disk. More than half of the hard disk was filled with data according to Windows 7 shortly after the installation [...]
Massive Extender Adds Batch Installs To The Mozilla Add-On Collector
Mozilla Add-On collections are collections of add-ons that have been created by users or by Mozilla. These add-on collections are displayed on the Mozilla website. They are usually themed and provide an overview of add-ons for specific niches like downloading files, adding security or changing the appearance of the web browser. What they do not [...]
Opera Downloads Triple After Browser Ballot Screen Goes Live In Europe
Opera is in the news quite a lot in the last couple of days. First they manage to rush out the final release of Opera 10.50 in a less time than some companies need to provide a patch for their application and then they are the first to release figures on the impact of the [...]
Firefox 3.7 Alpha 2 Released
If you cannot wait for the next installment of your favorite web browser to get released publicly you might want to give the new developer release a try. Firefox 3.7 Alpha 2 adds support for running plugins into their own processes which should add to the security and stability of the web browser as a [...]
How To Remove Add-Ons And Toolbars In Internet Explorer
It is relatively easy to install Internet Explorer add-ons. It is quite common that some programs install add-ons automatically which is for instance the case if a user installs Norton Internet Security or Kaspersky Internet Security on the computer system. A second common possibility are ActiveX add-ons that can be downloaded and installed directly in [...]
Pure Networks Security Scan
Is your computer network secure? That is the question that the online tool Pure Networks Security Scan tries to answer by running a series of tests that determine how well a computer network is protected. The security test is limited to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and used to sell the networking software Network Magic. The latter [...]
Yahoo Messenger 10 Download
Yahoo has released Yahoo Messenger 10, the latest installment of their popular instant messenger. The Yahoo Messenger 10 download is offered not only for Windows operating systems such as Windows 7 or Windows Vista but also for Apple Macintosh, mobile devices like the iPhone and as a web application that requires no download at all. [...]
Resize Pictures With Multiple Image Resizer
Multiple Image Resizer is a free software program to resize pictures in the Windows operating system. Pictures, a total of 28 different image formats are supported, can be loaded individually or in bulk into the application. These pictures are then displayed in a table along with information that includes their name, folder, image type and [...]