I spend most of the day yesterday preparing a notebook with Windows Vista installed to hand it over to a family member today. The notebook had not been in use for quite some time, and missed a few updates, among them the Windows Vista Service Pack 2 update which is considered one of the most [...]
Firefox Tab Sets, What They Do
You may have heard about a new feature called Tab Sets that has been integrated into the latest developer nightlies of the Firefox web browser. Tab Sets, as the developer call them, adds tab management capabilities to the web browser. When you start Firefox for the first time, you will notice a new option in [...]
Google Chrome Gets Click To Play
Regular readers know that I consider the Firefox NoScript add-on invaluable for security and bandwidth preserving reasons. One of the lesser know features of the add-on is an option to activate scripts by clicking on them on the website they were initially blocked on. This very practical feature allows the user to load scripts easily [...]
Top Google Chrome Shopping Extensions
Shopping on the Internet offers many advantages over local shopping. One of the best advantages are price comparisons and the ability to shop at multiple online shopping sites without leaving your home. Google Chrome, like Mozilla Firefox, supports shopping enthusiasts with extensions that offer all sorts of benefits, from price comparisons, to coupon codes or [...]
Sync your Evolution contacts with UbuntuOne
How many machines do you have? How many contacts do you have? How many machines do you try to keep your contacts in sync on? There are a lot of ways to do this. You could copy those contacts on a flash drive and move them back and forth, making sure you add the new [...]
File Recovery Software Roadkil’s Unstoppable Copier 5 Released
Many computer users eventually come in the situation that they encounter damaged or corrupt files on their hard drives, other storage devices, CDs or DVDs. The possibilities increase with the age of the device, and are influenced by many factors including the device’s quality, the storage environment and care. File corruption can also originate from [...]
Check Restrictions On Any Windows PC
Do you want to know what you can and cannot do on a Windows PC? The question may not come up while working on your own PC, but what about public computers, in libraries, at work or Internet cafes? Trial and error is one option obviously, but a very time consuming one associated with risks. [...]
Internet Explorer 9 Beta Release Date
If you follow this blog regularly you know that Microsoft had plans to release the first beta of their upcoming web browser Internet Explorer 9 in September. The release date however was not revealed at that time. Microsoft now started sending out invitations via the web to “celebrate the beauty of the web and Internet [...]
Vista Switcher, Better Windows Alt-Tab Management
I sometimes have the feeling that I have written about a specific software, but when I try to find the article the search ends up empty. Vista Switcher looks familiar to say the least, but a search did not reveal any hits on Ghacks (it does look like Alt Tab Thingy, a tab management software [...]