My week with my test Windows Phone from Microsoft continues and I have to say I got used to using the phone very quickly. In this part of the review I thought I’d write about the main applications that are built into the core operating system. The main way these apps work is through panels. [...]
Adobe Patches, And Reports New Vulnerabilities
Adobe’s Flash Player was updated yesterday fixing several security vulnerabilities in the process. The patch was initially slated for a November 9 release but released in advance yesterday. But Adobe Flash was not the only vulnerable Adobe product. Adobe has scheduled an update for their popular pdf readers Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat on November [...]
Windows Auto Login And Lock
Do you sometimes power on your computer and leave immediately afterwards for other activities, like making coffee or breakfast, taking a shower or going into a meeting. There are two possible scenarios here. If you have not configured auto login, you will see the the logon screen where all user accounts of the Windows operating [...]
Imagicon, Convert Images Into Windows Icons
Icons are used in numerous applications both online and offline. Some of the most notable ones are browser favicons that display in the address bar and bookmarks, and program icons that visualize programs and files in the operating system. Icons are often everything that is needed to identify a program or a file type. Windows [...]
How To Use 3TB Hard Drives On Windows XP
All hard drive manufacturers have announced the first wave of 3TB (that’s 3 Terabytes) hard drives in the first half of 2010, and first 3TB hard drives like the Western Digital Caviar Green WD30EZRSDTL 3TB are now available. These high capacity hard drives will work fine for users running Windows Vista, Windows 7 or a [...]
Virus Scan Any Link With VirusTotal In Chrome With VTchromizer
I use the online virus scanning service VirusTotal on a regular basis, to check out files before I download them to my local computer system. Especially useful for programs that are hosted on file hosters. VirusTotal scans those files using dozens of antivirus engines, offering a far better assessment of possible dangers than a single [...]
Could You Live Without Internet Connectivity?
It’s hard to believe that the web as we know it is still a teenager. No other teenager in all of history has had such a massive impact on life. Throughout world history, technology has fostered change in human society but never at such a rapid pace as the changes today. Like a person aging [...]
Expat Shield, Access UK-Only TV And Radio From Everywhere
The Internet is a global village. It allows you to connect with users from all over the world in seconds. There are however services available that are only accessible by users from specific countries. Probably the most renowned services are the tv streaming site Hulu and the online radio Pandora, which are both only available [...]
Chrome Toolbox, Improve Productivity In Google Chrome
Chrome Toolbox is a new extension for the Chrome web browser that aims to improve a user’s productivity in numerous ways. All features of the extension become available after installation. A right-click on the new icon in the Chrome address bar and the selected of Options opens the Chrome Toolbox Options page. This page is [...]