Some time ago I made the decision to dump the two popular Adobe products Adobe Flash and Adobe Reader from my system. Since then, Adobe did not come to rest, as the company was hit by one 0-day exploit after the other. What made matters worse was the reaction time to fix the exploits, which [...]
Smart Power, Save Energy With Efficient Power Saving Rules
Saving energy is not only a high priority on mobile devices but also on desktop PCs nowadays. The benefit on mobile devices is obvious: energy that is saved is available so that the device can run an extended time. The second benefit is monetary in nature. Cutting down on the energy costs of the PC [...]
Halo 4 Set for Midnight Launch
Microsoft’s latest game release for it’s ever popular XBox 360 console, Halo 4 is set to be available from midnight tonight as stores aim to cash in on the popularity of the Halo game series, and the inevitable popularity of this new game. Halo 3 previously held the title for the biggest selling game of [...]
Transmiti, System Wide Windows Translation Service
Google Translate is a solid translation service that is available on the Internet. Almost every popular web browser has a Google Translate extension or plugin to make it more comfortable to users to translate text on the web. But those only provide the functionality on the web, not for desktop documents or other text on [...]
CCleaner Auto Updater
CCleaner is probably the most popular temporary file and data cleaner in the Windows operating system. The developer updates the program regularly, and CCleaner notifies the user about updates, but does not contain functions to automatically update the program. Users still have to download the new version of CCleaner from the developer homepage and install [...]
Solutions for KDE 4.5 glitches
I thought I would re-visit one of my favorite topics of late, KDE 4.5. The SC has been out long enough now for some of the smaller issues to pop up and workarounds be revealed. Most of these smaller issues are, by no means, deal breakers, but some of them can be annoying. Not everyone [...]
Digital Watermarking With Watermark Magick
Digital watermarking can be an effective way to add copyright information to images. Many bloggers like to add their domain name to images they publish on their blog. This is on the one hand understandable, considering the plethora of scraper sites that like to copy text and media without link back and copyright notifications. Regular [...]
Money On Thread, Personal Finance Made Easy
Probably the most important personal finance rule is to spend less than you earn. To ensure that it is essential to have an overview of the household expenses at all time. People have various options on how to do that, either by keeping track of the expenses and income manually, or with a personal finance [...]
Get organized with Getting Things GNOME
Getting organized is, for some, a constant struggle. The PC is supposed to help us…does it? For some it does. For some it does not. For those that have trouble getting organized on the PC, a special tool is some times necessary. Getting Things GNOME is a GNOME tool that takes the task list to [...]