Duplicate contacts are a issue on today’s Internet for many users. Many web services, including email or social networking sites, maintain a contacts – or friends – database, which consists of people the account owner knows. It is sometimes possible to synchronize or import contacts, but more often than not that is not the case. [...]
Wave goodbye to Wave
Google’s new social networking service, Google Wave, launched last year to a huge fanfare and and equally huge controversy over privacy. Many users complained that anyone befriending you on the service could then see personal contact details of everyone else if your address book. The service was based around real-time character-by character chat typing, drag-and-drop [...]
Internet Explorer 9, Platform Preview 4 Released
The Internet Explorer team just as expected released the fourth platform preview of the upcoming Internet Explorer 9 browser. The preview still offers no “real” user interface, but lots of progress has been made under the hood. Hardware accelerating everything that is rendered on the user’s PC seems to have been one of the main [...]
Context Menu Enhancer, Add Features To Windows Explorer Context Menu
The Windows Explorer context menu offers quick access to often used features, next to file and folder manipulation options. It is relatively strange that Microsoft never bothered to include a context menu editor with the Windows operating system, considering that many applications add entries to it. Context Menu Enhancer has been designed to add features [...]
iPhone / iPad Security Flaw Risk
Hackers have moved in the last few years away from attacking platforms such as Windows, and instead on to attacking software. This is in a large part because the security of operating systems such as Microsoft Windows have increased incredibly in recent years while other software companies have remained complacent. The latest threat is another [...]
Deletist, Bulk Delete Folders And Files
Deletist is a lightweight portable software for Windows that can be used to delete folders and files in bulk. The program supports two operation modes. The user can add folders and files by pasting their paths into the program interface, or by loading a text file that contains the full path of the directories or [...]
Audio Tuner, Desktop And Mobile Instrument Tuning
Guitar tuners, and tuners for other musical instruments, are essential for musicians who are not able to tune instruments by hearing. They aid the musician in the tuning, and are considered an essential accessory by many. An alternative to standalone tuners are software tuners, that make use of computing devices to offer additional information and [...]
Remember those birthdays with GBirthday
Since today is the birthday of both myself and the US President I thought it apropos to cover a birthday reminder tool for the Linux operating system. There are a few of these tools but only one of them really is worth discussing at any length. That tool? GBirthday. GBirthday is a tool that lives in [...]
Computer Screen Ruler
Having an on screen ruler at hand may be very handy at times. Sure, many design related applications offer their own rulers, but other programs may not. A standalone computer ruler can aid the user indesigning a form for a website or software, measuring the exact size of an object on the screen, or if [...]