It’s great to see new, different and exciting ways that new technology is being put to. The latest is Google Earth, which has been used to study potential archaeological sites in Saudi Arabia according to the New Scientist. Nearly 2,000 sites have been found in the country by the University of Western Australia without having [...]
Microsoft, Adobe Post February 2011 Patch Day Information
Patch Tuesday is coming up and Microsoft has released an advanced notification about the upcoming security patches. Patch Tuesday refers to the second Tuesday of each month on which security patches are released to the public. The Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for February 2011 details the upcoming patches. A total of 12 security bulletins [...]
Bodhi Linux: Enlightened Ubuntu
If you’ve followed me long enough, you know I have a soft spot for the Enlightenment desktop. I have gone to all lengths to make sure my distribution of choice has either E16 or E17 installed for those days when I just need a little enlightenment. Those days are many. Fortunately there are plenty of [...]
Apple Shareholders Want Jobs Succession Plan
A proposal from Apple shareholders has been backed by the influential US investor advisory firm, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). The proposal wants Apple to lay out a succession plan for the company post-Jobs. Supremo Steve Jobs took an indeterminate leave of absence last month for medical reasons, leaving Tim Cook in charge of the day [...]
VSO Inspector, CD, DVD And Blu-Ray Hardware Information Tool
Do you know how fast your CD, DVD or Blu-Ray drive is? Which formats it supports out of the box? VSO Inspector can deliver those answers to you, if you are running the Windows operating system. The inspector scans all optical drives that are connected to the PC to display detailed information about each of [...]
VSO Image Resizer, Resize And Convert Images
The year was 2007 when I published a first review of the VSO Image resizer software here on Ghacks. A lot has changed since then and the developers have continuously worked on the application in the past years. A new version of the program was just released, reason enough to take another look at it. [...]
Firefox Extension Options Menu Add-On
Many Firefox extensions come with an options page to customize their behavior, interface or functionality. These pages are sometimes accessible through context menus if an icon of the extension is displayed in the Firefox interface. Most of the time however no direct options access is available which means that users have to open the Firefox [...]
Windows Home Server 2011 Release Candidate Download
Microsoft yesterday made available the release candidate of their upcoming Home Server product Windows Home Server 2011. The product, formerly known under its codename Vail, is expected to ship later this year. An update to the Windows Server Solutions SDK has been released along with the release candidate which “which provides tools and information to [...]
Unique Content Verifier Un.Co.Ver
One of the biggest problems for webmasters on today’s Internet is scraped content. What does it mean exactly? It basically means that other webmasters are copying contents from a website, usually without authorization to do so. That’s content theft and copyright infringement. The technology in this area has advanced a lot in the past years. [...]