Every operating system under the sun comes with an image viewer to view image formats that are stored on the computer’s hard drives, connected devices or other storage devices. The differences between one of those standard image viewers and a professional program like FastPictureViewer Professional become obvious immediately when you run the programs side by [...]
Opera 11 Release Candidate Out
Google does not seem to the only company that has accelerated the pace of browser development in the last year. Opera Software yesterday released the first Opera 11 release candidate, a big milestone in the development of the new Opera browser. Opera 11 RC 1 is available for the supported operating systems Microsoft Windows, Mac [...]
Twitter and Facebook Put Friendship Top of Christmas Wish Lists
One of the best things about the Internet and social networks these days is that it makes it easy and simple to identify trends and capture the mood of entire nations. With another Christmas spent in a period of economic uncertainty that’s what social media agency Yomego did to find out what it is we [...]
Microsoft Security Bulletin December 2010
Microsoft has released the last set of planned security bulletins for the year 2010 yesterday. A total of 17 security bulletins have been released that patch vulnerabilities in Microsoft products like the Windows operating system, Microsoft Office or Internet Explorer. When we look at the severity rating of those vulnerabilities we notice that two of [...]
Keyboard Indicator, Display LED Key States On The Desktop
It is frustrating to be forced to re-enter a password on the Internet or local PC after hitting the caps lock key on the keyboard accidentally. Computer users with LEDs on their keyboards can see if the caps lock key is active or not and react properly. Users with keyboards that do not have indicators [...]
File Verifier++, Windows File Integrity Checker
File integrity checks should play an important part in a computer system’s backup strategy. Nothing is worse than having to find out that the needed backups are corrupt and cannot be used anymore for restoration purposes. File Verifier++ is an Open Source software for the Windows operating system that can create and store hash values [...]
ExtMan, Create, Edit, Delete File Extensions In Windows
Windows 7 users who have been working under Windows XP previously may have noticed that the way file extensions are managed have changed in the new operating system. Users who want to assign a program to a file extension need to open the Windows Control Panel, click on Default Programs and there on associate a [...]
UK Judge Deals Blow to File-Sharing Lawyers
British law firm ACS Law has already come under fire this year after hackers broke into their computer system and stole copies of documentation of letters and demands for recompense to people who had been accused by them of illegal file-sharing. Now the firm has been dealt a further blow with a judge rejecting their [...]
Disable Major Third Party Tracking Services With Disconnect For Chrome
Facebook Blocker which I reviewed yesterday made sure that some Facebook scripts cannot be executed on third party websites. That’s helpful among other things to disable tracking by the popular social networking site. The problem with the extension? It only covers Facebook when there are hundreds of other companies and services that do the same. [...]