Intel, the world’s biggest manufacturer of computer processors has announced it’s to buy security technology firm McAfee for $7.68bn (£5bn) in cash the BBC reports. The deal values the anti-virus firm at $48 per share, almost 60% higher than it’s closing share price yesterday. Intel says it will utilise McAfee to help it build security [...]
MoodTurn, Ambient Noise Web Application
If you are working in IT, or with computers throughout the day, you know that it is important to take regular breaks, to relax the eyes and move the body a bit to relax the muscles as well. But breaks sometimes are to small to move around, which means that many computer workers spend some [...]
How To Enable Flash In Firefox Portable
The portable version of Firefox comes with no plugins preinstalled, and while it may make use of system wide plugins, it can still be that some necessary plugins are not available in the browser, especially if they have not been installed on the system. Adobe Flash is one of the plugins that may not be [...]
The KDE 4.5 Notification Area
With KDE 4.5 came a lot of updates and changes. From the bottom to the top, nothing was immune from an update or two. One tool that received a nice overhaul is the Notification Area. Not only did the Notification Area get a face lift, it also received a streamlining of the notification system. Although [...]
Facebook Places, New Location Based Service
Facebook has been working on a location based service for quite some time now. Yesterday they revealed the new Facebook service Places at their mystery press event. Facebook Places is an location aware service similar to Foursquare. It basically allows users to check in from locations, and more. Places helps you “share were you are”, [...]
Spoon Adds Browser Sandbox, To Desktop Apps Web Launcher
Spoon offers a web service for Windows users that allows them to run desktop applications directly in the web browser, without prior downloads or installations. The cloud approach offers several advantages over the convention way of running applications, including the ability to run apps from anywhere without downloading and installation. Spoon needs to be installed [...]
Chrome OS Tablet coming from Google and Verizon in November
Google’s new Chrome OS cloud-based operating system is about to make its first appearance, not on netbooks, as was first thought, but on tablet devices instead. Engadget are reportingthat smartphone maker HTC are building the device which will sport a 1280×720 multi-touch screen, 2Gb of RAM and a minimum of 32Gb hard disk storage. It’s [...]
Open Multiple Locations In Firefox At Once
Firefox users have several options to open multiple links in the web browser at once. They can click on each link individually, or use a popular extension like Snap Links to open them all together. But there is no real option to open multiple websites from a text document for instance, other than copying and [...]
4Chan Thread Downloader
Hate it or love it. The 4Chan message board is without doubt one of the most controversial sites on the Internet. Not only because of the contents posted on the site, but also the infamous site raids planned and executed there. The 30-or-so boards cater to a specific audience, and is largely concentrating on Japanese [...]