Mozilla has just released Firefox 3.6.6, less than a week after the release of the long awaited Firefox 3.6.4 version. Firefox 3.6.6 fixes a stability issue in the web browser. The developers have increased the time that plugins are allowed to be non-responsive before they are terminated by the browser. The timeout was set to [...]
Password protect files and folders in Linux
Security sometimes equates to sanity. You have to keep sensitive information from prying eyes for various reasons. You might have a folder that needs to be given access only to certain people and it lives within a public folder. Or you have a folder on your desktop machine that you want to ensure no one [...]
Windows 7 SP1 Screenshots
Installing Windows 7 Service Pack 1 seems, on the face of it, much less hassle than with service packs for previous editions of Windows as I discovered today while testing the beta. Here are a selection of screenshots of the service pack, the easy install process and the end result.
How To Add Google Encrypted Search Engine To Firefox, Opera, Chrome And Internet Explorer
Jojo just asked in the thread about Google’s new encrypted search engine if it was possible to add that search engine to the list in the Firefox search bar. The following article explains how to add Google encrypted search, or any other search engine for that matter, to the list of standard search engine providers [...]
Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Beta Leaks, What You Need To Know
The first beta version of the upcoming Windows 7 Service Pack leaked to the Internet earlier this week. The version, which was intended to be distributed to a close circle of beta testers is now available on various P2P networks, file hosting sites and other distribution forms on the Internet. Even respected download portals like [...]
Google Encrypted Web Search (HTTPS) Moved To New Domain
Google launched an encrypted version of their web search in May (see Google SSL HTTPS Search). HTTPS search was enabled on the main Google.com domain and users simply had to add an s after HTTP in the url to access the encrypted search engine. Encryption increased the privacy of the search engine user by preventing [...]
Fix Oops! Google Chrome Could Not Connect To Errors
Google Chrome can be configured to save the browsing session on close so that the user can continue the session on the next startup. All websites and services that had been open in tabs are reopened on the next browser start. It sometimes happens that Google Chrome cannot open a website, displaying a dreaded “Oops! [...]
128Gb Blu-ray XL Specification finalised
The next monster disc is just around the corner but possibly bad news for PC users who have upgraded their machine with a blu-ray writer. The Blu-ray Disc Association have now published the final specifications for the new BDXL standard. The new discs will come as either triple-layer 100Gb re-writable, write-once or whopping 128Gb quad-layer [...]
Folder Monitoring Made Easy With Portable App Watch 4 Folder
Computer users have different reasons for monitoring folders on their system, might be that they want to make sure that no one is tampering with files in those folders or that they can access a log to lookup when files have been added to the monitored folders. Whatever the reason, a portable folder monitoring software [...]