Remember Amiga? Well, if you’re old enough to remember that platform, then you might remember the Pagestream desktop publishing system. Pagestream began in 1986 as Publishing Partner for the Atari Computers. By 1989 it was ported for the Amiga platform with its current name Pagestream. Around 1996 Pagestream enjoyed a jump to the Macintosh platform. [...]
Firefox 3.6.3 Released. Update Now!
The Mozilla developers have just released Firefox 3.6.3, an update to the latest version of the Firefox web browser. This update fixes a critical security vulnerability in Firefox 3.6.2 making it a recommended update for all uses who have that version of the web browser installed. The critical security vulnerability could allow remote code execution [...]
Windows Startup Selector
Windows users have no option to change their startup programs other than to manually edit them using either the msconfig tool or a more sophisticated third party alternative such as Autoruns. But disabling Windows startup items means that these need to be enabled manually again in case they are need at a later time. Not [...]
Disk Wipe Software Prevent Restore
Making sure that files cannot be recovered after they have been deleted is an essential task in several situations. It is for instance important to prevent data restoration before giving the storage device away or selling it to third parties. It is a privacy issue and some computer users do schedule these disk wiping tasks [...]
Speed Up Your Windows Workflow with 7Plus
7Plus is an Open Source software for the Windows operating system that adds many features to the system that speed up the workflow. Features can be divided into Windows Explorer, general Windows related, windows handling and misc features. Some examples of what 7Plus adds are folder favorites in Windows Explorer, shortcuts to create folders, to [...]
A few Ubuntu “power user” tips
I thought I would start off the month with a collection of “power user” tips I have collected over the years. Some of these are real gems, some of them are just “been there, done that”. But all of them are useful. So, without further adieu, let’s get to the tippage!
Email Sender Verification for Thunderbird
Phishing emails have become quite common in the past years and it has become increasingly important to verify the sender – or origin – of emails that are received. Experienced users can do that manually by checking email headers for instance. The email Sender Verification extension for Mozilla Thunderbird integrates an automatic option to verify [...]
Avira Antivir Ads Remover
The free version of Avira Antivir displays a popup ad every time it is updated which quickly becomes an annoyance to most users who do not want to upgrade their free copy to a paid version of the antivirus software. We have covered ways to disable the ad popup in Avira before which required computer [...]
Backup Saved Games With GameSave Manager
Most computer games save the player’s progress automatically and provide an option to manually save the game progress as well. Those saves are then stored mostly in the My Documents folder and to a lesser extent in the program’s game directory. These saves can be backed up manually by simply copying the relevant files to [...]