Web developers have several options to test their web projects in different web browsers. Among the available choices are virtual operating system images that provide access to specific web browsers. Microsoft has just updated a set of Internet Explorer application compatibility VPC images that are available as a free download for Windows operating systems compatible [...]
Neat Bookmarks For Chrome, Search And Access Bookmarks Faster
If you want to have direct access to bookmarks in the Google Chrome browser, you either need to display the bookmarks toolbar, use the tools menu or install an extension that offers direct access to the bookmarks stored in the web browser. Neat Bookmarks falls into the last category. The Chrome extension adds an icon [...]
Launch Later, Delay Autostart Applications
One of the most effective ways of speeding up the system start of the Windows operating system is to disable autostart entries that are not needed during or immediately after the operating system launch. But that is obviously only an option if the programs are not needed. There are however programs that are required shortly [...]
Square Privacy Cleaner, Clean Privacy Related Data In Windows
The Windows operating system and software that is running on it have a tendency to save temporary data. A web browser for instance saves cookies, visited websites and the operating system recently opened files or folders. That is a privacy nightmare as it is possible to use the temporary data to create an activity profile [...]
Split Large Text Files
I just downloaded a very large text file with more than 70K lines of text, and had troubles loading it into a third party software getting an out of bounds error because of the size of the text file. The logical next step was to find a program to split the large text file into [...]
It’s Troubleshooting Windows 7 Week! – Competition Time
The latest Microsoft Press book “Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out” will be available to buy within two weeks and it’s been written by one of the regular editor/contributors here at you’re favourite tech website, gHacks.net. You can still download a free sample chapter from the book HERE, in which you can find out about the core [...]
Search Faster With Highlight To Search For Chrome
What do you normally do if you find text on a website that you want to research further? You either copy and paste the text into a search form, or type the text manually into a search engine. Either way, you end up with a search results listing. Highlight to Search for the Google Chrome [...]
Keyboard Leds, Caps, Num And Scroll Lock Indicators For The Desktop
Standard PC keyboards have three visual indicators for Num lock, Caps lock and Scroll lock states. That way it is possible to see the state of the three locks immediately and react if they are not set correctly. The most used locks of the three is probably the Num lock state, which turns the numeric [...]
Mystery Microsoft Office Announcement next Tuesday!?
Microsoft have already said that the new Office:Mac 2011 suite will be launched on October 26th, but now NeoWin is reporting that Microsoft have said that at 8am PDT on Tuesday 19th October, Kurt DelBene, the President of the Microsoft Office division and Chris Capossela, the Vice-President for Information Worked Product Management Group will make an [...]