If you are the guy that is getting all the tech calls from friends and family members whenever they encounter a computer problem you probably have heard about my computer icon related problems. Problems like “my computer icon is gone”, “my computer icon missing” or “my computer icon changed” are common and fixed easily with [...]
Facebook Pulls Chat To Fix Another Privacy Hole
Facebook feels like privacy hell. Not a single week goes by without reports of new privacy problems on the popular social networking site. The latest was published on Techcrunch Europe just yesterday. It apparently allowed anyone to view their friend’s live chats and take a look at their friend requests and friends. It is ironic [...]
Internet Explorer Platform Preview 2 Download
Microsoft has just released a new Internet Explorer Platform Preview that is available for download at the Internet Explorer 9 website. Microsoft has also added a testdrive site that contains a new set of developer samples and information about the upcoming Internet Explorer 9 web browser. The second preview of Internet Explorer 9 continues to [...]
Microsoft Office Outlook Hotmail Connector 14 Download
Microsoft Outlook Hotmail Connector 14.0 final has just been released by Microsoft. Outlook Connector allows Outlook users to manage Windows Live Hotmail email, calendar and contacts from within Outlook. The new version of the Outlook Hotmail Connector plugin is compatible with Outlook 2003, 2007 and the brand new Outlook 2010. The development team has added [...]
Management Tools for Amazon S3: Head To Head Comparison
It’s widely believed that Amazon S3 offers the best storage on the internet amongst all cloud platforms. It’s a great web service which works like a charm with high volumes of data and allows developers to develop highly scalable solutions. As with any web service, when the volume of data increases, the complexity increases as [...]
How To Access Websites Without Clicking On Links
What’s behind that link? This is a question that most Internet uses probably have asked themselves when they encountered a link that they could not figure out immediately. We reviewed the Firefox add-on Interclue back in 2007 which is part of this review. Interclue basically provides access to an overlay window that displays the contents [...]
Firefox 3.6.4 Beta 3 Released
Firefox 3.6.4 is a security and stability update to earlier versions of Firefox 3.6.x. The actual public release of Firefox 3.6.4 is targeted for May 13 but the developers have decided to provide an update to Firefox users who have been running beta versions and developer builds of Firefox 3.6.4. This update is already provided [...]
Mousepad: A variation on the Leafpad theme
If you’ve been following my series on Linux text editors you have read about a number of different variations on this theme. Some editors have been very GUI friendly, some have been just shy of a text-based editor, and some of them fall somewhere in between. Many people seem to prefer the in between editors [...]
Access Websites As Google Bot
Google bot is the general term for Google’s automated web crawling service that is linked to the Google search engine. Google sends out requests to webpages that use a Google Bot user agent. This specific user agent is used for several purposes including identification and restrictions. Webmasters can for instance filter out Google Bot from [...]