The football Word Cup in South Africa kicked off last Friday. We have already seen a few surprises when favorites like England or France could not beat their opponents in their opening games. TV stations in most countries of the world show the games live but there might be some countries where not all games [...]
How quickly can your password be cracked?
As more and more of us live more of our lives online with banking, shopping, photo galleries and social networking etc. a part of our daily lives, it becomes more and more important to have secure passwords. But there are problems in remembering complex passwords when there are so many websites you have accounts with. My [...]
Disable Restart After Windows Update
Windows Update is an essential Windows service that will by default automatically download and install updates. This ensures that Windows users are always getting the latest security updates whenever they are released by Microsoft. Windows update will prompt to restart the computer so that the updates can be applied. The Internet is full of users [...]
Enable RGBA support in Ubuntu
There was talk, some time prior to the release of 10.04, that RGBA support would be included in the release. Well, it wasn’t (much to the chagrin of many – including myself). That doesn’t mean it can’t be done. In fact, it can and it’s not all that difficult. There are a few bugs lingering, [...]
Two Programs That Help You Lock Your Computer
Are you annoyed by the fact that Windows continues to play music or videos when you lock the computer? If you have never experienced it try it out by starting to play music or a movie on your system and pressing the Windows-L key afterwards to lock the computer. The sound is still audible. Mobile [...]
Experts Exchange Junk Remover
Experts-Exchange.com is a highly controversial website which can be largely attributed to their deceptive layout which tries to trick users into believing that they can only view the answers to questions posted on the site if they signup for it. Most users do not know that the site displays different content depending on the origin [...]
Adobe release ‘critical’ Flash patch
Adobe have today released a patch to sort out the critical vulnerability in Flash that was discovered last week, which is a quick turnaround. The patch, released through version 10.1 of the Flash player is available now from www.adobe.com and there is also a new version of Adobe Air as well.
Save Screen Resolutions with ScreenEstate Beta
Managing different screen resolutions is a common problem that Windows users experience. Windows has no option to create screen resolution profiles to switch between them whenever the need arises. This can be problematic if a computer is connected to different monitor setups regularly. The only option to fix that problem is to use a third [...]
Restore Desktop Icons With DeskSave
The order of desktop icons can change in Windows if the screen resolution changes. This happens both in one-user but also in multi-user environments. Nothing’s more frustrating than having to move the desktop icons to their designated locations on the desktop whenever a screen resolution change caused the icons to be moved around by the [...]