Page speed is a ranking factor in the Google Search engine. According to Google officials it is currently used in 1 out of 1000 queries. I think it was Matt Cutts who said that speed acted as a tie breaker in situations. It is however likely that speed will play a bigger role in the [...]
Quick and easy printer sharing in GNOME
Printer sharing was once a big challenge for Linux. It almost always involved manually configuring Samba to share out your printers. That is not so now. With the latest releases of the GNOME desktop, printer sharing is as easy as it is in any other operating system. So longer will you need to open up [...]
How To Change Drive Icons In Windows
Windows users have two manual options to change the drive icons in the operating system. The first option makes use of an autorun.inf file placed in the root directory of the drive. The best way to create the file is to create a standard text document and rename it. It is then necessary to paste [...]
EU to Fund €16m Research Project into Cloud Storage
The technology we use every day is move ever more relentlessly towards the cloud. This isn’t a new concept, it’s been around since the birth of Hotmail and other similar webmail services. Now the European Union is funding research into cloud storage. Engadget has reported that the “Vision Cloud” project will “explore the possibilities around [...]
Google Instant Previews, Preview Not Available
Google’s new addition to it search engine, Instant Previews, is getting lots of press since its introduction. Google claims the new feature adds 5% to the search engine users satisfaction, others do not like the feature at all and want to disable it (see How To Disable Google Instant Previews for that). If you have [...]
Opera Gets Autocomplete With Buscomplete Extension
The Opera browser in its current form is not offering a Firefox-like autocomplete functionality, one where the browser remembers text entered into forms on web pages to display it again when the user makes use of the form again. The closest thing so far to autocomplete is to add preconfigured values to Opera Wand which [...]
Microsoft Turns Off Links Temporarily In Messenger 2009
If you are running Windows Live Messenger 2009 you may have noticed a warning message in the program that reads “You can still chat, but some features might not be available because of connection problems”. It is arguable that the message is not the clearest and that some users may think the connection problems are [...]
DVD Ripping Software VidCoder
A DVD ripping software comes in handy if you want to copy movies from DVD to another format. This is usually done to copy the movies to a device that cannot read DVDs, or the ability to access the movie without the DVD. VidCoder is a DVD and Blu-Ray ripping software for the Windows operating [...]
Windows Phone Locks-in MicroSD Cards
There has been discussion for a few weeks now about how Microsoft’s new smartphone OS handles expendable storage, with many people reporting that inserting the wrong card can reduce the OS to a crawl. Now Engadget have discovered that the Windows Phone OS makes permanent changes to a card that can prevent it from being read, [...]