Resetting a web browser to its factory default settings is sometimes a last troubleshooting option, especially if all other repairing options have failed. The consequences are manifold. All custom settings and preferences will be reset to their default parameters, which means that the browser has to be customized after the resetting again. All popular Internet [...]
How To Create New Web Browser User Profiles
Most modern web browsers make use of so called user profiles to offer each user of the computer a personal browsing experience. Each user profile has its own settings that are completely independent of other user profiles. A classic example is a family computer that is shared by all family members. Each member could use [...]
Get to know Linux: Grub2
Most PC users have no idea what a boot loader is. Yet all PCs have them. Most Linux users, by nature, do know what a boot loader is because they have had to deal with them one on one for a long time. Of course times have changed and gone are the days when you [...]
Google Hacking Diggity Project, Vulnerability Alerts Per RSS
Leveraging search engines to identify vulnerable systems and data in corporate networks, websites and services is generally known as Google Hacking, with Google standing synonymous for all search engines. Recent changes in Google’s SOAP-API rendered many security tools using Google useless. The aim of the Diggity project is to provide security researchers and network admins [...]
Operating System Market Share, Windows 7 Climb Continues
Windows 7, for the first time, has surpassed Windows Vista in operating system market share according to three popular companies that track OS market share over time. StatCounter, the W3Schools OS platform statistics and NetMarketShare have recorded a steady rise of Windows 7 ever since its introduction in October 2009. Overall numbers differ because of [...]
What Yahoo Knows About You, Ad Interest Manager
Companies have three options to track desktop users on the Internet, cookies, Flash cookies and network related activities. All three can be used by third parties to track an Internet user’s movement on the Internet, to record interests and activities. Most tracking companies sell those information to advertisers who in return display relevant advertisement to [...]
Twitter sees 20 billionth tweet
Twitter’s micro-blogging service has always been popular, and with people such as Stephen Fry entertaining the masses, it’s popularity can only grow as more and more people sign up to follow the musings of person A or X. Now though the service has recorded it’s 20 billionth tweet from a graphic designed based on Tokyo [...]
TCP Profiles Manager, Configure Multiple Network Profiles
Even the latest version of the Windows operating system does not offer options to maintain multiple network profiles, if only one network adapter is installed. While that is not a problem for most desktop PCs, it can become quite a nuisance for IT workers who use their mobile PCs to connect to different work related [...]
Essential Software Installer
Users who often reformat and reinstall their operating system, or install and configure computer systems regularly, have to repeat specific processes over and over again. One of those processes is the installation of applications on the new system. While it is perfectly possible to install the apps one-by-one, or to restore them from an existing [...]