P2P networks thrive if they have enough users who contribute to the distribution system. They would not be working if anyone would simply download but not upload files or partially files to other users. But there are situations where a user does not want to contribute the upload speed to spreading the shared files to [...]
Configure Prefetch and Superfetch With TweakPrefetch
Prefetch and Superfetch are two Windows modules that speed up Windows in general. Prefetching does this by writing application information (like the files that need to be loaded to memory) to speed up the loading process. Superfetching on the other hand uses a complex algorithm to determine the most used applications on a system to [...]
Store Notes In Google Chrome With Chrome Cuts
Web browsers do not come with options to quickly jot down notes to access them at a later time again. This feature can be added to some browsers by installing extensions while others only have the option to use online note taking applications instead. Chrome Cuts is a basic note taking application for the Google [...]
Add a Pandora Screenlet to your Linux desktop
If you haven’t experienced Pandora radio you don’t know what you’re missing. Pandora can stream music to your web browser specifically tuned to your tastes. Imagine having that ability right on your desktop – always at your fingertips? Pretty cool eh? Well as of now there is no stand alone Pandora client for Linux nor [...]
Protect Firefox Bookmarks With Link Password
There are quite a few options to protect selected bookmarks from being accessible by other computer users. It is for instance possible to use a bookmarking service, use deeply nested bookmark folders or a start page service to list the bookmarks that other users should not see. The options have in common that they hide [...]
uTorrent Gets Extensions Framework
The uTorrent team has released a first alpha preview version (utorrent 2.2 beta 19640) codenamed Griffin that integrates a web-based extensions framework into the Bittorrent client. These apps, which only consist of HTML and JavaScript, are displayed using the existing browser that was extended for this new functionality. This in theory should make it easy [...]
Some cool Linux tips/tricks
It’s Friday and that means we’re all ready for the weekend. But that also means we’re ready for some fun. Because of that I thought it would be fitting to do an article on some of the cooler Linux tips and tricks that I have come across over the years. This article will be a [...]
Google Chrome Dev Channel Reaches Version 6
A few days after the first Chromium builds with build number 6 appeared on the public Chromium release repository Google Chrome 6 dev was released. The dev version is the cutting edge version of the Chrome browser which often includes experimental features and bugs that need to be sorted out before the beta and stable [...]
Screen Capture Software Screenpresso
Screen capture programs can be divided into two categories: Those that concentrate on the screen capturing part and those that add functionality like image editing to the process. Screenpresso belongs to the second category as it offers basic image editing and annotation features for screenshots that have been taken with it. The portable software program [...]