If you want to search for videos on Youtube you can either go directly to the site and hack your search phrase into the search form offered there, use a search engine instead to find what you are looking for or use a browser extension to search Youtube directly without leaving the page you are [...]
Google Maps Offline Viewer
We have reviewed several applications like Google Map Buddy, Offline Maps or Google Map Saver in the past that allowed the user to download Google Maps so that the maps can be viewed offline. GmapCatcher is another offline maps viewer that supports not only Google Maps but also Cloud Made and Open Street Map. The [...]
Use a secure shell configuration file for easier use
If you’ve ever used secure shell you know that it can get a little daunting with all of the command options available. But did you know you can make this task much easier with the help of secure shell user configuration files? With these files (unique to each user) you can configure secure shell to [...]
Bookmarks Checker For Google Chrome
Bookmark Sentry adds a function to the Google Chrome web browser that many of its users have requested for some time now: The ability to check bookmarks in the browser. Google Chrome, like any other browser, comes with options to store and synchronize bookmarks but not to verify them to remove those that are pointing [...]
Gmail Warns Users Of Suspicious Account Activity
Google’s email service Gmail offered for some time now an overview of the recent Gmail account activities which listed the access time, account connection type, IP address and country of the last Gmail logins. Access to this feature is provided at the bottom of every Gmail page by clicking on the Details link there. But [...]
Desktop Search Software Agent Ransack
The standard Windows search is usually sufficient for most search related tasks even though it is not the fastest nor a feature rich desktop search software. Instead of using Windows search users can install third party search tools that promise better performance and functionality. We have reviewed our fair share of desktop search tools in [...]
How To Move Large Apps Or Games To Another Drive
Regular readers know that the main drive of my new PC is a 80 Gigabyte Intel Solid State Drive. The hard drive is excellent and works well in combination with the 2 TB hard drive that I use for data storage and some larger programs that do not require a fast hard drive. I sometimes [...]
Computer Software Updater WinApp Updater
Computer users who are working both with the Windows and Linux operating system usually list the missing computer software updater as one of the major missing features of the Windows operating systems. Windows users have no option to automatically update software that they have installed on their computer system. The only valid option for users [...]
WinPenPack Free Software Packages For USB Sticks
It can be very beneficial to store at least some applications on an external USB stick or device. This can then be used for many different purposes from troubleshooting PC issues to security and privacy issues as well as running programs that are otherwise not available on the target computer. Users can either create their [...]