The developer of the lightweight pdf reader Sumatra has released version 1.1 which is available as a direct download from the project homepage. Sumatra is a resource friendly and minimalistic alternative to heavyweight pdf readers like Adobe Reader. Its minimalistic design and speed make it an ideal pdf reader for users who want work with [...]
Install Google Earth on Linux
On my phone (Android based) I use Google maps like crazy (I’d get lost in my own house I’m convinced). It keeps me from getting lost and misdirected. When at home, however, I like to refer to Google Earth to aid me in my quest to know my surroundings a bit better. Now, Google Earth [...]
Router Password Recovery
The new Nirsoft application Router Pass View may help computer users in the recovery of router passwords. Many modern routers have an option to backup the configuration of the router into a file so that the settings can be restored at a later time. These router configuration backups often contain important data like the login [...]
Facebook mulls privacy climbdown
Facebook has come under some pressure from consumer groups in recent months over it’s privacy policies, and has had to make some significant changes to it’s terms and conditions in response to pressure from it’s own users. Now after further criticism, this time from the US Senate, European Union and civil liberty groups, the popular [...]
WebM Video
Google yesterday officially announced the release of the Open Source, royalty free video format WebM making it a third contender for the HTML5 video crown after H.264 and Theora. WebM video might however be exactly the compromise that most companies where looking for. You might remember that the major browser developers could not agree on [...]
Replace Windows Text Rendering With Gdipp
Windows users do not have a lot of options when it comes to text rendering. Basically the only option available for them is to enable ClearType, a technology developed by Microsoft that improves the readability of text on Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs). the Gdipp project has been designed as a replacement of the standard Windows [...]
IMDB Enhancer For Firefox
The Internet Movie Database is one of the most popular destinations for movie enthusiasts as it lists information about movies, actors, directors and more on its pages. Tweak IMDB is a collection of tools to enhance the user experience on the movie portal. It looks like a collection of userscripts that have been turned into [...]
Windows 7 64-bit And Windows Server 2008 R2 Vulnerability Emerges
The Microsoft Security Response team published a security advisory yesterday. The team is investigating a publicly reported vulnerability that is affecting 64-bit editions of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 as well as Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium systems. The vulnerability was discovered in the Windows Canonical Display Driver (cdd.dll) which is used [...]
Backup with rsnapshot
If you are looking for a command line utility to handle all of your Linux backup needs, you really need look no further than this tool that bases itself off of the perennial backup favorite rsync. Rsnapshot takes the rsync utility and makes it more useful than it already was. With rsnapshot you can retain multiple [...]