Cnet’s Seth Rosenblatt today published a story about privacy risks in private browsing modes of modern web browsers. He summarized the findings of a soon-to-be published report of researchers at Stanford University’s Computer Science Security Lab. The researchers analyzed the private browsing modes of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Apple Safari. First [...]
Increase Outlook 2010 Attachment Size
Most email providers limit the maximum size of attachments to a specific number, usually between five and 25 Megabytes. Companies like Microsoft have even started to offer workarounds by combining their email service (Hotmail) with offsite storage (Skydrive) to bypass attachment size limits. Users of Microsoft Outlook 2010 may have noticed that the email client [...]
ShapeShifter, Lightweight Windows Clipboard Replacement
The clipboard acts as a temporary storage location for data that is copied to it by a computer user. The standard Windows Clipboard can only store one entry, which gets overwritten every time new data is copied. That makes some operations, where multiple sets of data need to be copied more complex than necessary. ShapeShifter [...]
The mouse / calculator combo
Have you ever wished you had easier access to a calculator when using your PC? Do you do a lot of numeric work of a laptop? If the answer to either one of these questions is yes then Canonmight have finally developed the product for you.
FixWin, Tool Collection To Repair Windows
Most computer users experience problems with their computers from time to time. Problems in this regard means everything that keeps them from working properly with their computer. This can be Internet connection problems, missing programs or icons, broken system features or display problems. Whatever the problem is, it usually takes some troubleshooting skills to repair [...]
HistoryBlock, Block Websites From Appearing In Firefox’s History
Web browsers store information about visited websites in several locations. They usually write data to the temporary Internet files, may save cookies, add the site to the history, may save download information if files have been downloaded or reveal information about sites when using the reopen tabs command. HistoryBlock specializes in blocking information in the [...]
Automatically Enable Incognito Mode For Specific Websites In Google Chrome
Google Chrome’s Incognito Mode is a private browsing mode, in which the recording of information about the web browsing session is blocked. No records are stored in the web browser or on the computer system. That’s helpful to improve the privacy of a web session, or to avoid problems when using public or third party [...]
How To Speed Up Some Windows Software Installations
Delays during software installations in Windows are something that many Windows users experience from time to time. One of the most common causes is the spawning of an installation window in the background, especially if it is waiting for user input. Installations won’t commence until the user interacts with that window, which is bad if [...]
Net Neutrality talks stall
The BBC is reporting that talks in the US, intended to find a way to make sure all data on the Internet is treated equally have stalled. The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) began the talks on net neutrality after Google and Verizon said they wanted to see faster access speeds for websites that paid extra [...]