If you are currently using Ubuntu 10.04 and are interested in 10.10 you have choices – you can burn yourself an ISO and do a complete, fresh installation, OR you can upgrade using apt-get without having to bother with a re-installation. Of course I should warn you that, as of this writing, Ubuntu 10.10 is [...]
Create Automatic Page Summaries With WikiSeer Keynotes
Sometimes web pages offer that many information on a specific topic, that it would take half an hour or more to read through all the available textual information. That’s fine if you got the time for that, not so if you are in a hurry and only need the essentials, or a summary, of what [...]
Configure Hotmail’s New Security Features
The Windows Live team announced yesterday that they added additional security features to Windows Live Hotmail. The majority of those features were aimed at protecting email accounts against hijackers, and improving options to recover hacked accounts. This guide describes how to configure Hotmail’s new security features to improve the overall security of the email account. [...]
Hotmail Announces Email Security Updates
Microsoft on Monday said that they started to improve the email service Hotmail with security updates to protect legit user accounts from being hijacked. The term hijacker refers to malicious users who manage to get access to email accounts of Hotmail users, either by brute force, phishing or other forms of social engineering. Like Microsoft, [...]
Microsoft Shuts Down Windows Live Spaces, Migrates To WordPress
A rough time lies ahead of the 30 million or so Windows Live Spaces customer who operate their own web blog at the Microsoft owned service. Microsoft’s Dharmesh Mehta revealed that Microsoft teamed up with Automattic, the parent company of the popular blogging platform WordPress, to migrate Live Spaces users to WordPress. At the moment, [...]
Microsoft to shut down Live Spaces, Porting users to WordPress
Microsoft have announced that they;re to shut their underused blogging service, Windows Live Spaces, and instead port everyone’s account to WordPress. The announcement, made at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference and later reported by LiveSide, said that all 30 million active bloggers on Live Spaces would be migrated starting today. The Spaces migration to WordPress.com will [...]
Advanced BAT To EXE Converter
Converting bat files to exe is likely not a very popular topic, even though you find requests by users occasionally that want to perform those conversions. As to the why; There are usually two reasons for converting bat files to executables. The first are programs that can load executables but not bat files, backup software [...]
A walk around KDE 4.5
Recently I did an introductory “walk around” GNOME (see “A walk around the GNOME desktop“) which offered the new users to Linux a look from the ground level at one of the most popular of the Linux desktops. This time around, I will do the same service to the KDE desktop. I will focus on [...]
Save Comments, Web Text Automatically With Firefox Textarea Cache
Not many things are more frustrating on the Internet than having to type a comment, blog post or forum post again because the browser or tab crashed or closed unexpectedly. Some services save those textual information regularly or even completely so that they can be recovered after the crash, while others do not offer such [...]