I’m always looking for ways to improve my workflow. This often involves changing a manual task into a semi-automated or fully-automated task. Take copying urls and loading them in a web browser for example. Say you received a website address in a messenger or email client that you want to open with a specific browser. [...]
First Drive Extender Alternatives Are Announced
Windows Home Server administrators surely know about Drive Extender which can be used to combine multiple hard drives into one combined virtual hard drive. This simplifies the accessibility and management of data on the Home Server. A music or video buff with split the collection on multiple drives because of space constraints could use Drive [...]
Skins.be Wallpaper Downloader
Skins.be is a popular high quality celebrity and model wallpaper website on the Internet. Wallpapers on the site are constantly updated and offered in several resolutions. Wallpapers can be downloaded in the most appropriate resolution to the local computer system to use them as desktop backgrounds. The free application Skins.be Downloader automates that process. The [...]
Don’t Like The New Firefox Button? Then Change It!
Firefox 3 users who switch to Firefox 4 for the first time need to get used to several interface changes that the developers have made. If you have followed the development from the first beta on you may have noticed that some of the design choices have been removed and replaced with something more Firefox-3 [...]
Nokia Shares Drop 14% as Staff Walk Out
Nokia is having a turbulent week, first the CEO’s secret email to staff about the company being in trouble is leaked to the press, then they announce an historic strategic partnership with Microsoft to exclusively use Windows Phone on its high end smartphones. Many employees didn’t like this announcement though, primarily the 1,500 workers employed [...]
Get your tumblr on from the Linux desktop with Grumblr
As a writer of ebooks I have to constantly be promoting my works. There are three main ways to do this for free: Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr. Of the three, Tumblr allows me to be the most flexible in what I post as well as allows more people to see what I’m posting. But I [...]
Argente Utilities, Free System Maintenance Tool
Argente Utilities is a free system maintenance tool for the Windows operating system that offers access to several maintenance, optimization and security related applications. The software displays a welcome screen on first run where the user can enable or disable scheduled automatic system maintenances and automatic updates. Argente Utilities contains a one-click maintenance mode which [...]
Enable Mouse Zoom In Thunderbird
Users of the Thunderbird email client can zoom the text of email messages by holding down Ctrl and tapping on + to increase the font size or – to reduce it. The zooming options are furthermore available under the View > Zoom menu in the menubar of the email client. There is however no option [...]
WinMend Folder Hidden, Hide Folders From Other Windows Users
It sometimes may be important to hide folders on a multi-user system to avoid access to the files stored within. It makes sense for instance for important documents to prevent that other users (kids anyone?) tamper with the data or access it. Hidden folders are not really a protection on the other hand, as it [...]