I can’t tell you how many times I have used a man page only to find either an error (due to author not updating) or that the man page itself was confusing and needing my own personal tweaking. Now, if you are unsure as to what a man page is, you should know that Linux [...]
Desktop Media Displays Drive Icons On Computer Desktop
One of the great features of the Commodore Amiga computer was that it’s graphical user interface Workbench would automatically create an icon on the desktop whenever a disk was inserted into the drive. Floppy disks are not the medium of choice anymore but the feature itself would still be extremely useful for quickly accessing removable [...]
Hard Drive Diagnostics Software GSmartControl
Nothing is worse for a computer user than a hard drive that is nearing the end of its life cycle as hard drive crashes or unreadable sectors could lead to data loss if the user was not prepared for the worst case. But when is the right time to start preparations? Should you start feeling [...]
Happy birthday Bing!
Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, is officially one year old today. The search engine formerly known as Live Search, Windows Live Search and MSN Search was officially unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on the 28th May 2009 at the All Things Digital COnference in San Diego. The search engine went live on June 3rd that same [...]
Gmail.com Or Googlemail.com
Is it gmail.com or googlemail.com? The answer to this question depends on the country that you are living in and the time you have registered a Google Mail account. Most users have the email address in the format username@gmail.com with the notable exception of users from Germany and the United Kingdom who both use the [...]
Facebook Photo Zoom
Facebook Photo Zoom is an extension for the Google Chrome web browser that makes it a lot easier to view a larger version of a photo posted on Facebook without having to click through to the photo album page first. Photo zoom is immediately active after installing the add-on. Hovering the mouse over any photo [...]
Mozilla Changes Visual Add-on Indicators, Adds Version Check
Visiting the Mozilla add-on repository for Firefox, Thunderbird or any other Mozilla project gave the visitor the choice to display experimental add-ons next to the the already reviewed add-ons. Experimental add-ons were add-ons that had not been reviewed by the Mozilla team and could have a negative impact on a computer’s performance and security. Experimental [...]
Google Chrome Dev Channel Gets VP8 WebM Support
If you have followed web browser developments in the past months you probably noticed that a fight for the HTML5 video format broke out between the big players. Both Microsoft and Apple supported h.264 while Opera and Mozilla supported OGG Vorbis and Google Chrome both. This would have proven disastrous not only for end users [...]
Panda Announces Cloud Antivirus Pro
Panda Cloud Antivirus made quite an impact in 2009 when it was officially released after an initial beta testing period. The cloud driven antivirus solution combined effective virus protection with a smaller local footprint and lesser updating hassles thanks to its cloud based design. But resource efficiency is only one benefit of cloud based antivirus [...]