A ninth worker at Taiwanese iPhone manufacturer Foxconn has committed suicide. 21 year old Nan Gang leapt from the four story factory in the early hours of the morning yesterday, according to China’s state media, later reported by the BBC. A total of 11 Foxconn employees have tried to kill themselves this year, two have survived.
Google Pacman Sound Bug
If you have visited the Google homepage today you might have noticed the Pacman logo instead of the usual logo that appears on the Google site. This logo has been placed there to celebrate the 30th birthday of Pacman, a video game created in 1980. This Google Doodle is unusual though as it is an [...]
Disc Collection Software
Keeping track of collections must have been pretty tiresome without computers. Disk Collection is a free collection software for the Windows operating system that can aid a user in keeping track of media that is stored on the local computer system, external media and remote computer systems. Creating a new collection could not be easier. [...]
Microsoft Download Manager
The Microsoft Download Manager has been designed to provide Internet users with a faster and more reliable way of downloading files from the Internet. It has specifically designed for downloads from Microsoft pages on the Internet but can be used for every http based download. It becomes obvious right after startup that this download manager [...]
Process Lasso Pro Review
Process Lasso Pro is offered for free today at the giveaway of the day website. We have reviewed the free version of the process management software Process Lasso back in 2008 and liked it despite its limitations. Process Lasso can be best described as a software that will automatically adjust process priorities based on a [...]
Firefox Sync
What once was Mozilla Weave Sync is now Firefox Sync. The Mozilla developers have changed the name of the synchronization add-on for the Firefox web browser. No word is out why they changed the name but it is likely that Mozilla Weave Sync was just not descriptive enough whereas Firefox Sync exactly describes what the [...]
Windows Mail Backup Software
Windows Mail, or Windows Live Mail, is a free messaging software for the Windows operating system. Windows Mail is part of Windows Live, a collection of Microsoft tools that are available to extend the Windows operating system. Windows Mail Saver has been designed as a backup and restoration utility for Windows Mail. The free software [...]
Pakistan Blocks YouTube
There have been an increasing number of internet censorship instances in the last couple of years including China blocking access to news sites during the Beijing Olympics to that terrible opponent of free-speech, Australia. Now Pakistan is on the case, blocking YouTube for what it calls “growing sacrilegious content” the BBC has written.
Stream Video With Opera Unite
The topic of streaming video to a friend’s computer came up yesterday evening. Direct experience is often the base for excellent articles and this will hopefully make no exception. The first option that we tried was VLC Media Player which offers streaming but that did not work out that well somehow. Maybe it was because [...]