Let’s face it, the photo management tools for Linux can tend to be either too complex for the average user or offer nothing in the way of modern features. The biggest gap in the spectrum of Linux tools for photo management, image editing is smack dab in the center. That center is where the majority [...]
Yahoo! Bids to get its cool back
There was a time when Yahoo! was the portal everyone went to for search and social groups online. Sadly Google stole the company’s crown and now Yahoo! has even slipped into third place in search behind Microsoft’s Bing engine. Now though Yahoo! is releasing new upgraded services in an effort to make itself cool again [...]
Speed Up History Navigation In Opera
Did you know that the Opera browser has three different modes for history navigation? All browsers make use of the history, to allow their users to go back and forth in it which is a lot easier than having to re-open the pages manually. Opera by default uses an automatic mode for the history navigation. [...]
Comodo DNS Blocks Ghacks
Imagine my surprise when Jojo mentioned that Comodo DNS was blocking ghacks.net, allegedly because it was a hacking / warez site that may offer illegal sharing of copyrighted software and media. Bogus claims obviously, which can hurt a website financially and irritate new and regular visitors. I tried to get hold of Comodo to resolve [...]
Display Link Targets In Firefox With Hidden Status Bar
You may or may not have read that the Mozilla development team has removed the status bar from the Firefox browser in the latest nightly builds, just like Microsoft did in Internet Explorer 9 Beta, and Chrome did for god knows how long. Unlike Chrome or Internet Explorer, the Firefox developers have made the decision [...]
ReclaiMe Free Raid Data Recovery
RAID, which is an acronym for redundant array of independent disks is used to divide or replicate data among multiple disk drives. Many motherboards and PCs come with options to use RAID, the sheer amount of different RAID schemes, complicated setup and horror stories about data loss due to corrupt or damaged drives in the [...]
Two Windows 7 Speed Up Tips
When you perform an operation over and over again, you may be inclined eventually to find a way to optimize that process to save time and speed up the work flow. The following two tips have helped me personally speed up two operations in Windows 7 by cutting down on the steps required to execute [...]
Instant message on your LAN with iptux
I recently covered a great LAN file sharing tool called Giver (see my article “Easily share files on LAN with fellow Ubuntu users using Giver“). I wanted to take that idea a little further and cover a similar tool that allows you to chat with fellow users on your LAN WITHOUT have to add them [...]
How To Speed Up Thunderbird By Archiving Emails
Most desktop email clients have one big problem, that becomes apparent over time: They do not offer email archiving or backup options. This means that the email databases will increase with every email, which in turn can have an impact on the performance of the email software. It should be obvious that it takes longer [...]