Google has made lots of changes to its search website in the past year. A few of the noteworthy, and often distracting changes, include the new fade-in homepage which only displays the search form until the visitor moves the mouse, the sidebar that is displayed on search result pages or design changes to buttons and [...]
Unlock DVD And Blu-Ray Regions In Popular Software Players
DVD regions are an annoyance from an end user’s standpoint as they make it impossible to view movies from different regions regularly. A limit of five region code changes is usually permitted after which it becomes impossible to switch to another region which ultimately means that DVDs and Blu-Rays from those other regions cannot be [...]
Pino: Fedora’s default social tool
Where would we be today without social networking? I have heard many tales how a social tool has saved a life or joined two lives together. Just recently a friend of mine found our her son was wounded in war not by the Red Cross, but on Facebook. These tools have become an integral part [...]
Windows Tweaker X-Setup Pro Now Freeware, More or Less
X-Setup Pro is a Windows tweaker that is compatible with all versions of the Microsoft operating system. The company filed for insolvency and had to shut down all operations regarding X-Setup Pro. The developers have posted a serial number on the X-Setup Pro homepage which can be used to activate and use the program (in [...]
Fedora’s lucky 13
The number 13 is usually associated with bad luck. Friday the 13th (both the date and the movie). Many buildings don’t have a thirteenth floor. Fedora just released it’s number 13 and one might wonder if the number was good or bad for the release. I am happy to report that the number 13, for [...]
iPad / AT&T vulnerability leaks email addresses… who is to blame?
Hackers have exploited a vulnerability on AT&T’s US network when iPad users authenticated themselves online that has allowed them to gain access to a list of 114,067 email addresses belonging to owners, it has been reported by gawker. The group, calling themselves Goatse Security harvested the data using nothing more than a PHP script and [...]
Flash Player 10.1 Download
Adobe has released the final version of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 after a series of release candidates and betas. The new version is fixing a security vulnerability that was disclosed earlier this week making it a recommended download and install on every system with Flash installed. The biggest change introduced in Flash 10.1 is hardware [...]
Windows Explorer SFTP Extension
Microsoft’s Windows Explorer can be used to map network locations, websites and ftp servers so that the contents become accessible directly in the file management tool. SFTP, which stands for Secure File Transfer Protocol, is on the other hand not available by default. This can be problematic in situations where secure connections need to be [...]
Fix Firefox With Last Pass Not Responding
A recent upgrade to the latest beta release of Firefox 3.6.4 from version 3.6.3 caused a stability issue where the browser would stop responding completely. The Firefox window became unresponsive and the only way to close the browser was to kill its process in Windows Explorer. Tests with Firefox 3.7 alphas showed the exact same [...]