Jojo mailed me yesterday with some interesting information about AVG’s latest free antivirus software. I could not believe it at first, but confirmed it after installing AVG Free on a test system. Basically, Jojo mentioned that AVG was running eight background processes after installation, and that it’s size of installation was exceeding the 500 Megabyte [...]
Install With, Installs All UserScripts With Auto Updating Functionality
Userscripts are great. Sure, you need to install Greasemonkey first if you want to run them on Firefox, but they are afterwards easier to install than extensions and have a lesser impact on the overall performance of the browser since they are executed on page loads only, and not resident in memory all the time [...]
Linux text to speech with Festival
There are many reasons why you would want to enable a text to speech feature on a computer. You could suffer from poor (or no) vision, you might need the feature for a science experiment, or maybe you just want to have your log files read to you. No matter the reason, text to speech [...]
Google VP hits out at ‘Political’ Windows Phone 7
With the official launch of Microsoft’s long-overdue new Smartphone operating system, Windows Phone 7 just two days away, it’s little wonder that people at Apple and Google might be more than a little worried about the publicity it’s bound to receive and how it will impact on their own businesses. In an interview this week [...]
Facebook Toolbar
Many Internet users dislike toolbars, which largely stems from the fact that some companies use questionable means to force their toolbars on the user’s system. Not all toolbars are “evil” though, and there are certainly some that may prove to be useful. The Facebook Toolbar may be one of them, but only if the user [...]
Hotmail Sign In Troubleshooting
Microsoft’s email service Hotmail recently received an update that improved the options to recover an account. That’s helpful for users who cannot sign in to Hotmail, either because their username or password is not accepted, or other errors or even attempts at hacking the email account. But account recovery is only one of the options, [...]
Facebook Translate Extension For Firefox
Facebook is a global village. It is quite possible to have friends from different countries who sometimes post status updates in their native language. That’s a problem if you are not understanding the language but want to know what the status update is about. It is possible to copy and paste those status updates to [...]
Are Apple about to launch an iTunes subscription service?
Apple has reportedly been in talks recently with senior executives at the major record labels about offering a music subscription service through the iTunes store according to Engadget. The deal is reported to offer $10 to $15 monthly subscriptions what would offer unlimited music but with pricing that would be tiered depending on how much [...]
5 Windows Tips To Speed up Your Workflow
One thing that distinguishes most experienced computer users from beginners is the way things are done in the operating system. Experienced users often make use of shortcuts to speed up their workflow, while inexperienced users may go the extra mile simply because they do not know that there is a faster way of completing tasks. [...]