Are you a space junkie? Do you follow NASA as if it were the only real source of science and information? Or are do you just have a need to know where satellites are positioned at any given moment? For whatever reason, there are plenty of people out there who want or need to track [...]
The Top 5 and Flop 3 Features Of Internet Explorer 9
Every major release if a new web browser comes with lots of activity on technology news site. Everyone aims to be the first to report about something, and some manage to get their copies early for a distinct advantage. Then again, in the end it turns that a huge amount of interchangeable articles flood the [...]
How To Uninstall Windows Internet Explorer 9
The question came up if the installation of Internet Explorer 9 affects another version of Internet Explorer on the operating system. The answer to that question was yes: Internet Explorer 9 replaces an older version of Internet Explorer during installation. Some users may have installed the beta of IE9 without knowing that, and some may [...]
Tim Berners-Lee calls for Free Internet Everywhere
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has used a speech at a Nokia conference in London to call for everybody worldwide to get free Internet access and at least a low bandwidth connection “by default”, as reported by the BBC. In his call for free Internet access he highlighted the fact [...]
Internet Explorer 9 Direct Downloads
Microsoft has just released the first beta of their upcoming Internet Explorer 9 web browser. The standard installer is offered as a web installer, which means that data needs to be downloaded during installation to complete it on the operating system. That’s obviously a problem for some users, especially those with slow or unreliable Internet [...]
Internet Explorer 9 Beta Download Available
Microsoft has released the first public beta of the upcoming Internet Explorer 9 web browser a few minutes ago. This beta release is the first public version of IE9 with a user interface. And that user interface has changed a lot, compared to previous Internet Explorer versions. The new Internet Explorer 9 interface is minimalistic, [...]
How To Configure A New Hard Drive In Windows 7
A friend of mine just called me the other day, telling me about a problem that he had with his Windows 7 system. He bought a new hard drive and connected it to the PC. The hard drive was detected just fine in the computer’s BIOS, but did not turn up in Windows Explorer after [...]
Easily share files on LAN with fellow Ubuntu users with Giver
Have you ever just wanted to quickly hand a file off to a fellow user on a LAN without having to resort to using an email client or shared folder? Wouldn’t it be nice to just click on a username, send them a file, and have their desktop automatically notify them that the file has [...]
Dial Up Internet Connection Keeper
Dial up Internet users have to cope with several Internet connection related problems that their broadband brethren do not have to deal with at all. A major problem for instance is that the connection will be dropped after a specific amount of inactivity. Inactivity in this case means that no data is send or requested [...]