Mary-Jo Foley of ZD Net has reported that Microsoft is readying another public beta of their forthcoming Windows Live Essentials 2011 suite, an update to the previously titled Wave 3 suite of programs. Windows Live Essentials is commonly described as being exactly that, essential, as it’s suite of add-on programs, including Mail, Photo Gallery and [...]
Virtual Driver Turns Any Directory Into A Drive
Turning a directory into a drive letter can have several benefits, with the most obvious one being accessibility. Drives are for instance prominently placed in save and load dialog windows, and while it is possible to add folders to a sidebar or the favorites for a similar effect, accessing a drive letter instead is often [...]
Two cool KDE Plasmoids
It’s time to head off to that wonderful land of KDE where the desktop only gets better and better with each release. In fact, a new release should be out now – KDE 4.5 with 1,723 new features and 16.022 bug fixes. I don’t believe the packages have hit the repositories just yet, but they [...]
Opera 10.61 Released, Download Now
Opera has just released a new version of their Opera web browser. Opera 10.61 is now available for download after releases of three release candidates. Opera considers the new version a security and stability update, which makes it an essential update for all Opera 10.60 users. The release notes of the new Opera version list [...]
Failed Facebook Login Attempts Reveal Private Information
Facebook does not seem to come to rest these days when it comes to privacy. A new bug was discovered on Wednesday by researcher Atul Agarwal, which allowed anyone to match an email address to a Facebook user’s name, and profile picture. Facebook has designed the login process to provide additional information to the user [...]
Google Chrome Beta Gets Form Autofill
Web forms are an integral part of the web. They are used for website signups, surveys, comments and other interactions with a specific website or service. Having to fill out the same information over and over again can be very tiresome, if you have ever had to register an account with 30+ web services on [...]
Firesay Adds Speech Recognition To Firefox
Speech recognition has come a long way in the last years, even though the technology still requires training to reduce the error margin. The requirements for speech recognition technologies are a capable microphone or webcam, and a software or operating system supporting the technology. Up until now, mainly dictation software and software for disabled people [...]
Group Policy Settings Reference for Windows Internet Explorer 8
System administrators can use Group Policy rules of Windows to control the working environment of user and computer accounts. The Group Policy is often associated solely with enterprise, school, business and other organizations, when in fact it can be useful in smaller computer networks and even home environments. Many rules in the Group Policy center [...]
Firefox 4 Beta 3 Arrives
Firefox 4 Beta 3 is currently in the distribution phase and will be available shortly at the official beta download page for all supported operating systems and languages. Several download portals, including Softpedia, are already offering the English language version of Firefox 4 Beta 3. The release notes have not been updated yet, which means [...]