Daniel back in April 2009 reviewed the first Game Booster release and came to the conclusion that it reduced some of the performance issues he was experiencing while playing GTA4. The developers of Game Booster have now published a beta version of the upcoming Game Booster 2, and boy have they changed the application. The [...]
iOS 4.1 Jailbreak on the way, 1 day after the new OS launches
Apple’s latest operating system version for the iPhone and iPod Touch was launched only one day ago, but already it’s official that it’s been jailbroken. A message posted by MuscleNerd on Twitter said… Jailbreaking, the process of unlocking the iPhone, has received a great deal of attention due to the fact that doing so allows [...]
Automatically Disable The Laptop Touchpad While Typing
Some laptops, netbooks and notebooks have a switch next to their touchpad to deactivate it. This is helpful for instance if a mouse is connected to the device, as that makes the touchpad an unnecessary gadget. Disabling the touchpad can also prevent accidental cursor position changes, especially when typing text on the laptop keyboard. A [...]
vifm: Fast, lightweight, old school file manager
Recently I have been covering some of the lighter weight file managers for the Linux operating system. We’ve seen PCMan File Manager and emelFM2 covered recently. I’ve also touched on Thunar numerous times. All of these file managers have two things in common: They are fast and they have GUIs. Today’s file manager shares the [...]
Tab Sugar, Like Firefox Panorama, But For Chrome
Firefox Panorama is a new feature of the upcoming Firefox 4 browser which offers a different way of managing tabs in the browser. Among the features are options to group tabs, display all open tabs on one screen and to only display selected tab sets in the browser’s tabbar. Tab Sugar basically is a port [...]
Opera 10.62 Released
The Opera desktop team has released Opera 10.62, an update to the stable branch of the web browser. Opera 10.62 has been released after a series of snapshots and release candidates. We kept track of those releases in the forum. Opera 10.62 is a security and stability update, and therefor recommended for all users of [...]
iOS 4.1 now available for iPhone and iPod Touch
In a way it’s odd and unusual that technology companies, that usually want you to buy the very latest version of the thing you only bought a year ago, are so willing these days to make it easy for you to update your device. Now Apple has released the latest version of their iOS operating [...]
Turn Off, Disable Google Instant Search
Google Instant is being rolled out and will become available to users in select countries in the next few days. As with every major change there are users who do not want to use the new feature. Some of the reasons for disabling Google Instant may be the additional bandwidth requirements, or that Google Search [...]
Google Instant Unveiled, Auto-Updating Search Result Pages
Google engineers have been experimenting with auto-updating search results for a while now. The new technology basically displays search results as the search engine user types. The new feature is currently rolling out to users on Google domains in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia, Italy and Spain, but only if they use [...]