Things are not looking bright for users of the Windows XP operating system as companies are starting to drop Windows XP support or compatibility. Microsoft for one said that the upcoming Windows Live Wave 4 suite would not support Windows XP at all. Windows Live is a collection of popular applications including Windows Messenger, Windows [...]
Run Punkbuster Services Only When Needed
If you have recently installed a game that uses the anti-cheating software Punkbuster to reduce online cheating in the game you may have noticed the two Punkbuster services PnkBstrA.exe and PnkBstrB.exe running in the Windows Task Manager even if the game has not been started in the session. Punkbuster gets installed as two Windows Services [...]
Rip Music CDs With Audiograbber
Ripping music CDs is still something that many computer users do from time to time even with declining music CD sales. Audiograbber is a CD ripping software for Windows that offers a comparable functionality to all time favorite applications for that task like CDex or BonkEnc. It can be used to easily load audio CDs, [...]
The Difference Between Firefox Personas And Themes
If you are a user of the Firefox web browser you probably heard the term Personas before as the feature has been pushed by the Mozilla developers lately. You might also know that Personas can change the look and feel of the Firefox browser. But how do Personas differ from Firefox themes then? Personas can [...]
Network Activity Indicator For Windows 7
The network activity icon was used by Microsoft in pre-Windows 7 operating systems to indicate network activity in the Windows System Tray. Windows users who have switched to Windows 7 may have noticed that this network activity indicator was removed in the operating system so that no visual indication of network activity is shown to [...]
Five handy tools in the GIMP toolbox
For many Linux users, The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Project) seems to mostly be a tool of mystery and confusion. The biggest reason for this is lack of exposure. Most users that complain about The GIMP’s interface really only need to get to know the interface. I have covered The GIMP a few times here [...]
Microsoft Touch Pack For Windows 7 Download Available
One of the new features of the Windows 7 operating system was (better) support for touch capable devices. The Microsoft Touch Pack was created as a demonstration package to showcase Windows Touch in Windows 7. Up until now the Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 was only available for OEMs that were allowed to put [...]
Internet Explorer Can Affect Firefox
One would think that web browsers run independently of each other, that Google Chrome and Firefox or Firefox and Internet Explorer would not affect each other. Michael Horowitz just found out that Internet Explorer can affect Firefox on Windows XP. He lately changed the security level of Internet Explorer to high for some extra security [...]
Microsoft And Facebook Launch Docs.com
Many Internet users who want to view and edit documents online use Google Docs to do so. There are other services besides Google Docs but none that can compete with Google’s service on an eye to eye level. This however could change in the near future with the public release of Docs.com, an online document [...]