Microsoft has just released the final version of Windows Live Essentials 2011, the popular software compilation that contains programs such as Messenger, Photo Gallery, Mail or Movie Maker. There is no announcement yet on the changes, except that the 2011 edition of Windows Live integrates fully with Microsoft’s latest operating system Windows 7, including full [...]
How To Update Last Year’s Security Software To This Year’s
Most security software companies, like Kaspersky, Symantec or Bitdefender, release new products ever year. The updated programs often come with additional security modules, better detection, engines, resource usage and other features that make them more powerful than last year’s version. If you are running last year’s version, say Kaspersky Internet Security 2010, you are bound [...]
Rapidshare Gets Major Overhaul
Rapidshare has been pressured from several angles in the past years. Law enforcement agencies that called for the shutdown of the service, or better controlling and filtering of uploaded files, rival file hosting sites that gained lots of ground due to attractive and more powerful disk space and traffic limits, and users who were fed [...]
Microsoft to Launch Windows Live Essentials 2011 later Today
Microsoft are set to launch the final version of Windows Live Essentials 2011 later today according to NeoWin. I suspected something was happening when I awoke this morning to see that Microsoft senior vice-president Steven Sinofsky had changed his profile picture on Facebook to the Windows Live Essentials 2011 logo, the story from NeoWin then [...]
Install LibreOffice on Fedora and Ubuntu
You’ve probably already heard the news. OpenOffice has officially forked into LibreOffice. This fork is thanks to the way Oracle has botched nearly everything it has touched and the OpenOffice community wants to protect the flagship product. So now, there is a fully open office suite that, in my opinion, will actually be able to [...]
Firefox URL Keyword Completer
Keywords can be added to bookmarks in the Firefox web browser to open those websites faster by typing the keyword into the Firefox address bar. Other browsers like Opera support keywords as well (Opera calls them nicknames), and even though it is a useful feature, it does not seem to be used by many Internet [...]
Google Instant Search Keyboard Shortcuts
Google Instant Search, which was introduced by Google earlier this month is posed to stay, it appears. I personally dislike the new feature for a number of reasons, including search results pages that change to fast, if you type fast, and the increased bandwidth requirements and having to press a key to accept a search [...]
Google Hiding Search Results Pages
A few months ago, when you would have asked me why you are only seeing one page of results in Google Search, I would have told you that this is because you have searched for an exotic term that does not yield more than a handful of results. Today however I witnessed for the first [...]
How To Copy Multiple Links At Once
If I want to open multiple links in Firefox, I make use of the excellent add-on Multi Links, which allows me to do that effortlessly. I recently however experienced a situation where I wanted to copy multiple links on a website, instead of open them. The prospect of copying dozens of links manually was not [...]