Creating shared folders in Windows does not have to be a time consuming task. Microsoft ships a Shared Folder Wizard with the operating system that provides all the means to create shared folders easily. The wizard is available in all recent Microsoft operating systems including Windows Vista, Windows XP Pro and Windows 7. The easiest [...]
Google Chrome Web Apps, What Are They?
If you follow popular tech blogs like Techcrunch or Download Squad you may have noticed teaser posts about Google Chrome Web Apps, a new feature that the Chromium and Google Chrome developers have been developing for some time. Google’s plan is to offer Chrome Web Apps in the new Chrome Web Store launched later this [...]
Google enters flights travel market
Search giant Google has made a surprise move into the travel business with the acquisition of flight information firm ITA Software, as reported by the BBC. The firm provides software that organises fares, flights and journey times. These are then used by airlines, travel agents and flight comparison websites. Google have hinted that they may [...]
Change your MAC address in Linux with MACchanger-GTK
The MAC address is a very important string of characters that your computer depends upon in order to be networked. MAC stands for Media Access Control and represents the true address of a machine on a LAN. The MAC address of an ethernet device is a 6-byte number that is expressed as a 12 digit hexadecimal [...]
Combine Images With Sprite Sheet Packer
Computer users have multiple options when it comes to combining images. They can use a photo editor like Paint.net or Adobe Photoshop to load the images to create a merged image, use online services or specialized tools like Sprite Sheet Packer. The main advantage of the latter being that its operation requires no deeper knowledge [...]
Shoutcast Playlist Downloader
Shoutcast is a popular music radio directory owned by AOL. It offers an efficient way to find radio stations based on genre and other parameters such as bitrate or compression. Shoutcast made the news recently when it was removed by the developers of the popular media player VLC from their application. You can read up [...]
Adobe Offering Insecure Adobe Reader Version For Download, Beware
Adobe just recently released updates to their pdf reader Adobe Reader, raising its version to 9.3.3. The update fixed several security issues of which at least one was actively exploited in the wild. Computer users who visit the Adobe website might notice that Adobe is not offering that version for download, anywhere on the page. [...]
The Times Paywall Is Up, No More Free Content
If you head over to The Times website right now you will see a site that looks like many of the other newspaper websites on the Internet. But clicking on any link on the page yields a surprising result, at least for visitors who have not read about the paywall plans before. A screen overlay [...]
Apple admits iPhone signal fault
It happens! Technology moves to quickly and companies have such little time to actually socak test products these days that problems slip through. Unless you’re Toyota though they’re not usually life-threatening which will come as some relief to Apple. The BBC has reported that Apple have acknowledged there’s an issue with people who “hold the [...]