The Mozilla developers have initially planned to release the Firefox 3.6.2. security update on March 30 but have since then changed their decision to deliver the update earlier than the scheduled release. Firefox 3.6.2 has been released and is already available through the web browser’s automatic update check and as a download at the Mozilla [...]
China: Google Wrong To Stop Censoring
It took Chinese officials less than two hours to react on Google’s announcement to stop censoring their services in China. Google, two hours before the response, started to redirect their China mainland traffic to their Hong Kong domain serving unfiltered information and services to Chinese users. The official in charge of the Internet bureau under [...]
Select All Fixes Standard Windows Select All Text Behavior
Select All is a small Autohotkey application that fixes the standard Windows select all behavior. Pressing Ctrl A normally results in all text in an active field, form or window to be selected. There are however situations where this is not working correctly so that only parts of the text are selected. The developer was [...]
Karen’s Net Monitor
Webmasters need to make sure that their websites are up and accessible to site visitors and search engine bots. Downtime can have different impacts from negative perceptions of website visitors to being kicked out of search engines for not being accessible. There are three options on how to stay informed about downtimes. The first two [...]
Monitor your network with iptraf
I am always looking for a good network monitor, and there are plenty out there. But in all my years of searching I have yet to come across a monitor as good as the tried and true iptraf. The iptraf network monitor is an ncurses-based IP LAN monitor (so it’s text-based) that is interactive and [...]
Opera 10.51 Windows Released
Opera 10.51 was released less than three weeks after the release of the Opera 10.50 milestone release. Three public release candidates were released in rapid succession before the final version of Opera 10.51. The new version of the popular web browser fixes many user interface inconsistencies and bugs that have made their release in Opera [...]
Google China Service Availability
Google today announced that they stopped censoring Google services in China, something that many Internet users did not believe they would be doing even though they made it very clear that it was a possibility. As of today Google Search, Google News and Google Images search are delivering censor free search results to Chinese people. [...]
Save Images More Comfortably With Image Fetcher
If you sometimes download images from Internet websites you might have already considered that the way most web browsers offer to save images is not the most comfortable one. Web users need to right-click each image they want to save and select Save Image from the menu that pops up. That might be fine if [...]
Text Twist
Text Twist is a very popular online game that is offered on many different websites. Two of the most popular versions of the Text Twist game are offered on Yahoo and MSN Games with the MSN game only playable in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Text Twist is a word game where the player has to form [...]