An update to the popular WordPress blogging platform has just been released. The announcement should appear in the admin interface of the WordPress blog. If it does not check the Updates entry on the left sidebar of the admin menu. According to the developers, WordPress 3.0.5 is a ” security hardening update for all previous [...]
Firefox Quick Search Bar, Easier Search Engine Access
Firefox’s search bar offers direct access to one search engine and pulldown access to all configured search engines. One search engine is always selected as the default search engine and used for searches unless another is selected manually by the user first. Users who often switch between search engines may like the new Firefox add-on [...]
Finding Free Wi-Fi While Traveling
Traveling is a pure pleasure and in the present technology-driven world, traveling has become all the more easy, user friendly, and exciting. Unlike the old days, when traveling meant just packing clothes and leaving, today’s travel includes a lot more. Rare is the traveler who travels without the technological essentials of today: the iPod, the [...]
Create Better Looking Excel Charts With Clean Charts
Clean Charts is a lightweight add-in for Microsoft Excel that can improve Excel charts in numerous ways. It addresses several know issues like hard to read labels, scaling issues, font size and color contrast issues. Clean Charts is installed by running the Clean Charts Installer.xls file after unpacking the contents of the download to a [...]
Get your Ubuntu tips with this handy applet
We could all use some handy tips now and then. Wouldn’t it be great if they were, quite literally, at our fingertips? If you are a Ubuntu user, those tips can be at your finger tips with the help of a handy tip applet. This applet works in conjunction with the Fortunes application and serves [...]
PowerPoint, Excel Chart Data Templates
While various charts are added easily to Microsoft Office PowerPoint or Excel, it is not guaranteed that the resulting charts look visually appealing. Especially the axis labeling and scaling is often causing readability problems. Chart Chooser is a free service by Juice Analytics that offers 17 new Powerpoint and Excel charts that are provided as [...]
Firefox 2011 Roadmap Updated, Expect Firefox 7 in 2011
News made the round at the end of January that Mozilla had plans to accelerate the development of the Firefox web browser by releasing major version updates more frequently. The Firefox 2011 roadmap was updated to reflect this change in development and to outline the “planned strategy and direction for Firefox in 2011″. Probably the [...]
Firefox CacheMachine, Open Cached Website Copies
Websites sometimes are not accessible. It can be that the server the website is hosted on is currently down, that the webmaster accidentally or willingly deleted data on the website or that the user’s computer and Internet connection currently cannot establish a connection to the desired website. While it may be out of reach to [...]
AOL Buys Huffington Post for $315m
The Huffington post has now confirmed that its been bought by AOL for $315 million. The website, which was launched in 2005, is essentially a news aggregator featuring coverage of politics, media, business, entertainment, lifestyle, world news and so on. AOL is still relying on revenues from existing subscribers to it’s dial up services. It’s [...]