The Google Chrome development team constantly works on three different versions of the web browser; A stable build, a beta build and a dev build. The beta build offers a good compromise between stability and speed. The latest Chrome beta update promises a 30% to 35% speed improvement over the previous beta channel release which [...]
Windows 7 Stability And Reliability Update April 2010
Microsoft has released a stability and reliability update for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 which fix a number of issues in both operating systems. The issues that have been fixed in the update are: Windows Explorer crashes and then restarts when you access a third-party Control Panel item. You cannot connect to [...]
Foxit Reader 3.3 Introduces Secure Trust Manager
Foxit Reader has recently been affected by a series of security vulnerabilities which the Foxit developer’s managed to close shortly after they were disclosed. The developers have just released Foxit Reader 3.3 which introduces a new feature called Secure Trust Manager. It basically is a new component that blocks potentially malicious attacks before they can [...]
Disc Recovery Software Isobuster
Disc Recovery software can be the last resort if data on a CD, DVD, Blu-Ray or other disc format becomes unreadable. The first step in the recovery is always to look at the disc to make sure that it is clean and should be readable. If that is the case data recovery software might be [...]
xjed: Text editor with Jedi Powers
Okay, so the title is a bit misleading. Using xjed will not make you a Jedi Knight, but it will help you in your quest to become a Jedi-level programmer. Right? Wrong. xjed is a text editor that was designed with programmers in mind. It’s an X11 version of the Jed editor which offers numerous [...]
Windows Live SkyDrive Synchronizer
Windows Live SkyDrive is a popular file hosting service on the Internet maintained by Microsoft and linked to their Windows Live service. Users with a Windows Live account can sign up for SkyDrive to make use of the 25 Gigabytes of online storage. No official software to maintain the files is provided by Microsoft. Thankfully [...]
Windows 7 And Google Chrome Market Share On The Rise
Statistics provided by Internet metrics company Net Applications confirm several trends in web browser and operating system usage. The Windows 7 operating system is still gaining market share mostly at the expense of its predecessors Windows XP and Windows Vista. Windows XP lost another 1.05% of market share accumulating to a total market share loss [...]
Set up infinote server for collaborative use
If you’ve followed my recent text editor series you will have noticed I included a text editor that is also a collaborative tool (see my article “Kobby: KDE collaborative text editor“). In that article I mentioned that Kobby can work with the GNOME equivalent Gobby. But to do so they need a server running. The [...]
Change IP Address With IP Switcher
Being able to switch IP addresses can be essential if you work in different network environments. Changing the network settings manually whenever you work in a different location can be time consuming. Tools like IP Switcher or the previously reviewed Fast IP Switcher can be very handy in those situations. The tool basically allows the [...]