If you’ve spent enough time around Linux you might have come across an installation process that requires the use of SVN. SVN is subversion which is a version control system based on CVS. What this means is that this tool manages files and directories and keeps track of the changes made to them. A lot [...]
Q-Dir, Windows Explorer Replacement
Q-Dir, the Q stands for Quadro, is a Windows Explorer replacement that offers all that the default file browser in Windows offers, and then a lot more on top of that. The program is offered as a portable version and installer for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows client and server editions. The reason why the developer [...]
Panic Button, Switch To Safe Websites
You sometimes may not want that others see what site you are visiting currently. That’s not so much a problem at home but at public places like work, libraries, Internet cafes or airports. Switching manually to a safe website takes time, even if it is open in another tab in the web browser. Even worse, [...]
Align Windows On The Windows Desktop
Before Windows 7, there was no option to align windows on the computer desktop. It was possible to maximize them but that was it. With Windows 7 Microsoft has started to add more controls to the user, so that it became possible to align windows on the right or left side of the screen. That [...]
Google Chrome Virtual Keyboard
A virtual keyboard provides two main advantages over a hardware keyboard. First, it defeats most keyloggers as the keys are not typed in but clicked on, and second it may offer faster access to special characters, especially from other keyboard layouts. An example would be an English user who needs to write a German ö. [...]
Apple applies for anti-Jailbreak [spy] patent
Jailbreaking Apple’s iPhones has has a lot of publicity of late with new tools making it easier than ever before to unlock the iPhone so it can be used across networks and have any apps installed. Now though Apple have applied for a patent that could allow them to remotely disable any iPhones that are [...]
Better Explorer, Brings Tabs To Windows Explorer
It came as a surprise to many that Microsoft did not improve Windows Explorer as much as other elements in the Windows 7 operating system. Windows Explorer basically had the same look and feel like in Windows Vista, with some marginal changes. With tabbed browsing becoming such a huge thing one would have thought that [...]
Make use of the KDE 4.5 Clipboard
Klipper is the KDE 4.5 clipboard and it is not your average clipboard tool. Unlike most operating system clipboards, Klippy gives the user quick and easy access to not just the last object copied, but multiple objects copied. Klipper is so powerful a clipboard tool, you will wonder why other operating systems don’t mimic the [...]
Google Plays With Insta Updating Search Result Pages
Not all change is good, and it is often better to keep a system as is, than to add self proclaimed innovative features that many users might not want. Google has made lots of changes to Google Search in the past, and while some of them made sense, others did not. Google’s latest experiment is [...]