Despite questions over Google’s ability to continue making huge profits, the company has this week given all its staff a huge 10% salary increase and big bonuses. The report by Business Insidersays that every employee has been given a $1,000 “holiday bonus” on which the company is also paying everybody’s tax, and salary bonuses of at [...]
Firefox 4 Beta 7 Released, Feature Complete
The Mozilla team seems to be back on track with the release of the seventh beta of the upcoming web browser Firefox 4. The release marks a milestone in the development as this is the first feature complete release of version 4 of the Internet browser. What does it mean? That the developers won’t add [...]
Nokia NBU Explorer
Nokia phone owners can install the Nokia PC Suite or Nokia Ovi on their computer system to backup the contents of the phone. The backup includes various information including contacts, messages, bookmarks and photos. The backups are stored in nbu, nfb, nfc or arc files which cannot be read natively. Nokia phone owners who want [...]
Hotmail HTTPS Launches, May Affect Other Applications
We have already mentioned on Saturday that Microsoft would improve the security of their email service Hotmail by offering HTTPS connections as an alternative to standard HTTP connections. Back then the feature was not available for all Hotmail users, as Microsoft rolled it out in batches to ensure an error free transition. The Hotmail Sign [...]
Rescue Disk Creator Sardu 2 Released
I have reviewed Shardana Antivirus Rescue Disk Utility (Sardu) back in 2009 and found it to be a helpful but complex to setup rescue disk creator. The developer has recently released version 2 of Sardu which sports new features and an improved user interface. The portable software program offers a selection of tools that can [...]
Microsoft Security Bulletin November 2010
Microsoft has released information and patches of this month’s patch day. It is promising that there is no patch for Windows in this month’s patch day. The three bulletins that have been released fix security issues in Microsoft Office and Microsoft forefront United Access Gateway. One of the MS Offices bulletins has a maximum severity [...]
Duplicate File Finder Duplicate Cleaner 2.0
Computer users have numerous reasons for finding and deleting duplicate files on their systems. Some of the top reasons include freeing up storage space and better manageability of files in the operating system. The duplicate file finder Duplicate Cleaner 2 has just been released as a beta preview. Duplicate Cleaner is a sophisticate duplicate file [...]
Create GNOME desktop entries for all users
Linux, being a multi-user system, begs for you to configure it such that all users initially experience exactly what you want them to experience. One option you have, which is very easy to do, is to create specific desktop launchers that are added to all new users upon first login. Naturally those users can then [...]
How To Add Program Links To Windows Explorer Favorites
Several elements in the Windows operating system have been restricted by Microsoft. It is for instance not possible to pin folders to the Windows 7 taskbar, or to add programs to the Favorites group in Windows Explorer. There are however workarounds available that allow a user to do just that. This leaves the question unanswered [...]