Yesterday, at the office, we had a client come to use needing to merge two 20 Gig directories of data together. Naturally I chimed in saying “I’m sure Linux can do that with a simple shell script”! Of course neither the client or my fellow workers wanted to deal with a shell script. So, instead, [...]
Internet Explorer InPrivate Filter Manager
InPrivate browsing is an Internet Explorer mode that prevents the saving of data during a web browsing session. Web browsers usually record information, like visited web pages, cookies or temporary Internet files. The data is available until it is deleted. This mode however prevents the saving of data, so that becomes impossible to find out [...]
Apple Leads In Security Vulnerabilities, Microsoft Third
Apple software had more reported security vulnerabilities than any other company in the first half of 2010, according to security company Secunia, a reputable security company that tracks security vulnerabilities since 2002. Last years leader, Oracle, dropped to second spot while Microsoft managed to retain the third spot firmly in the last five years. Adobe [...]
Youtube Revamps Music Page
If you are at the top you have to keep up with the demand, if you are not it is likely that someone else will snag that position right from you. Youtube has recently redesigned several of their inner category pages, including shows and movies to offer users better access to popular and recent additions [...]
TreeSize Free, Hard Drive Storage Allocation Analyzer
I have to take special attention to the storage space allocation of the main hard drive in my new computer. The Solid State Drive has a size of 80 Gigabytes, which fills up quickly, especially without proper disk management. Installing a single game or large application on the drive could be enough to fill it [...]
Enable Side Tabs In Google Chrome
All the talking about sidebar tabs today in Firefox reminded me that I wanted to write about a similar feature in Google Chrome, to be more precise in the Google Chrome dev releases and Chromium. The developers of the browser have added a startup switch to enable side tabs. Users who are running a dev [...]
JPEG View, Fast Windows Image Viewer
Many free and commercial image viewers are available for the Windows operating system. Windows ships for instance with the Windows Photo Viewer, an ok but not brilliant image viewer. Free alternatives include FastStone Image Viewer, XnView or Irfanview, commercial ones the excellent Fast Picture Viewer. JPEG View is a free Open source alternative. It can, [...]
Encrypting email in Evolution
Evolution is an outstanding groupware suite with one of the finest email clients in all of Linux-land. For many users the standard email setup is great. It does everything they need: it sends and receives email (even HTML email if you so desire). But for others a little extra is needed…especially in the form of [...]
BarTab Speeds Up Firefox, Loads Tabs On Demand
There are two situations in which the loading of tabs can slow down the performance of the web browser; During startup, if sessions are restored and a good amount of tabs need to be restored, and after selecting multiple websites to be opened at the same time, for instance by double-clicking on a bookmark folder. [...]