If you have been following my latest entries, you know I have been covering the Nagios monitoring system (see my articles “Quickly install Nagios on Ubuntu“, “Easily extend Nagios’ functionality“, and “Configure hostgroups for Nagios“.) This time around we are going to look at the notification function of Nagios. Specifically, I am going to show [...]
Digital Camera Photo Downloader
Not all operating systems handle the downloading of photos from digital cameras that well as Windows 7. The operating system automatically recognizes the photos and displays an option to transfer them to a location on the computer system, usually the My Pictures folder. Some operating systems do not offer that feature which means that their [...]
Thunderbird Email Filtering Extension Quick Filter
Thunderbird 3 has introduced several major changes to the popular email client. The ability to perform global email searches for instance was a feature that was missing in Thunderbird 2. Extension developers have also added several interesting add-ons for the email client including the previously reviewed Sender Verification extension. Quick Filter is another extension for [...]
Kaspersky Pure Released
A recent security software trend seems to be to offer multiple editions of a program that differ in functionality in price. If you look at companies like Microsoft, Symantec or Kaspersky you notice that they all offer different editions of their programs. Security software in particular is offering two, three or sometimes even more different [...]
Miro Video Converter
The developers of the video player Miro have created a new software program to convert videos. Miro Video Converter is an easy to use program that can convert most video formats into mp4, ogg Theora or formats that are supported by specific phones or mobile devices. The biggest advantage of the video converter is its [...]
Maxthon 3 Alpha Switches To Webkit
Maxthon is a web browser that not many Internet users know about or mention when they are asked which web browsers they know. That’s a little bit surprising considering the 300+ mill ion downloads the download counter over at the Maxthon website is displaying. Still, Maxthon is an underdog in the browser game that is [...]
Manage Google Chrome Sessions With Session Buddy
We have taken a look at a basic Google Chrome session manager back in January which made it possible to save Chrome sessions, that is information about the open websites in the web browser, so that they could be opened again at a later time. Sessions are very handy to save work at a current [...]
Facebook Friends Checker
Keeping track of all your Facebook friends can be a problem if you have a lot of them. We are not talking about a few dozens but hundreds or even thousands of friends. One thing that becomes very time consuming is maintaining the friend list. This includes keeping track of users who have stopped being [...]
Download Online Videos With Web Video Cap
Online videos are in high demand and one of the most popular pastime on today’s Internet. Services like Youtube, Dailymotion, Hulu or Gametrailers are visited by millions of users each week. The videos that are hosted on those sites can only be viewed online and it is understandable that many Internet users are looking for [...]