For the last years I have been ignoring Digg as it turned from a powerful news source into a site ruled by power users, news by top sites and bad management. I used to find Digg valuable then to discover new websites that I did not know about before. Now, it is just the same [...]
LimeWire Forced To Shutdown, FrostWire Alternative
The New York District Court has ordered LimeWire to shutdown immediately by disabling functionality in the software client that allows users to share copyrighted materials in the P2P client. Users who visit LimeWire’s website are greeted with a legal notice detailing that “LimeWire is under a court-ordered injunction to stop distributing and supporting its file-sharing [...]
Windows 7, Server 2008 R2 SP1 Release Candidates Officially Available
Microsoft is now offering official downloads for the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 release candidates, after both release candidates leaked to the Internet earlier on this week. The release candidates are provided for It professionals, tech enthusiasts and developers who need to test the “service pack in their organization or [...]
Last Pass Pocket, Access Last Pass Passwords Offline
Last Pass is my password manager of choice. The program is available for Firefox, Google Chrome and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The browser add-on is actually more than just a password manager. It comes with many advanced features, like secure password generation, automatic log ins in websites and services, note taking or form filling. Last Pass [...]
Install and use Ubuntu Unity before it’s released
Mark Shuttleworth has announced that Ubuntu is dropping the GNOME desktop as the default and switching to it’s own, in-house desktop. That desktop is the Unity desktop which was designed for the netbook environment. Whether you like this move or not, it’s happening. But what is Unity? And how do you experience it now, instead [...]
GoogleMonkeyR Makes Google Search More Comfortable
Every Google Search user may access search settings to configure some settings, like the number of search results per page or if search results should be opened in a new window, or not. The options available are limited, and third party developers have created numerous tools to modify Google Search one way or the other. [...]
Tablets, Changing Travel Habits
There used to exist a time where travel meant devoting the entire time to your companions, be it family or friends. There was no TV to watch, no phone (I mean the times when cell phones were not so common) and the internet was not nearly so portable as it is today. That was the [...]
Photo Magician, Batch Image Converter
Converting multiple images can be a time consuming process, unless so called batch converters are used for the conversion. There are many reasons why a computer user may want to convert images. This includes reducing the size of the images before sending them by email or uploading them to a service or server on the [...]
Opera: Please Fix The Opera Extensions Page
If you have followed the news surrounding the Opera web browser lately you know that the upcoming Opera 11 browser features an extensions framework, much like the one used by the Google Chrome web browser. (for the nitpickers, I’m not saying it is the same, I’m saying it looks similar from a user perspective). The [...]