One thing that bothers me a lot in Firefox is how add-on uninstallations are handled. Many add-ons add preferences to the Firefox prefs.js file in the profile folder of the browser. These parameters often define values for settings that the user can change directly in the add-on’s options. The problem becomes apparent during uninstallation of [...]
Facebook send out invites for mystery press event
Facebook has come in for a huge amount of criticism this year over issues such as privacy and the complexity of their user controls. Now the social networking giant has sent out mystery press-invites for an event tomorrow, according to neowin. According to the invite, this “news event” will be held at the company’s headquarters [...]
How To Create Sitemaps For Static HTML Websites
So called sitemaps are files that contain information about a website’s structure. It is usually not the only information but that should be enough as an explanation for now. Many content management systems, blog platforms and other dynamically generated website scripts come with options to automatically generate, and often submit sitemaps to the big search [...]
KDE Desktop Activities explained
With the release of KDE 4 a new feature was added that, at first, seemed to be more confusing than anything else. Although the theory behind the idea was simple, the execution made the idea overly complex. The idea was this: You break the desktop up into activities so each desktop is very well defined [...]
Manage Google Docs From The Desktop, with iGoSyncDocs
A desktop software to manage Google Docs documents sometimes offers advantages that the in-browser web version does not offer. Like what, you ask? It does not leave any traces in the web browser or cache for one, which can be beneficial even with private browsing modes available. While that is usually not a huge benefit [...]
ClipUpload, Semi-Automates Uploading Clipboard Data
The main intention of posting data to the clipboard is to have it in reach to process it further at a later point in time. This includes copying someone’s email address and pasting it into an email application, creating a screenshot and uploading it to a server on the Internet, copying and paste text to [...]
Facebook ‘dislike’ scam
Many users of the social networking site Facebook have long been asking for a dislike button and now it looks like they’ve got what they were asking for… or have they? Be warned, the latest offering of a dislike button on Facebook is, in fact, an elaborate scam.
NZB Newsgroups Downloader, HelloNzb
So called nzb files have been created to make the downloading of files from the Usenet (often referred to as newsgroups which is technically not correct) easier and more comfortable. Files are uploaded in parts to the Usenet, and while Usenet software did a good job at recognizing and merging those parts to file names, [...]
Switch Between HTML And Plain Text Emails In Thunderbird
Emails can be composed as HTML or plain text messages. HTML emails mainly offer the advantage of better formatting options over plain text emails. It is for instance possible to add bold or underlined text, lists or images. HTML emails on the other hand are considered a security and privacy risk. It is for instance [...]