Microsoft introduced a new email alias feature for all users of their email service Hotmail. Email aliases are alternative on-the-fly email addresses that can be generated directly in Hotmail. Two different versions of email aliases are available. The first available option is to add characters to the first part of the email address. A new [...]
Google Chrome Stable Updated, Security Release
Google has just updated the stable version of their Google Chrome web browser. The release contains both feature additions and security fixes. The security fixes alone make it a recommended update for all Google Chrome stable users. A total of nine security vulnerabilities have been fixed in Google Chrome 9.0.597.84 of which one received a [...]
Windows 8 Direct Experience Mode
We do not know an awful lot about Microsoft’s upcoming operating system Windows 8. Heck, we do not even know if it will be named Windows 8. Microsoft is tight lipped and does not reveal planned features at this point in time, probably to avoid jeopardizing the sales of their current operating system Windows 7. [...]
Recover Videos With Get My Videos Back
The durability of CDs and DVDs depends on several factors. These factors have a direct influence of the longevity of the data which usually ranges between 2 and 15 years. This alone makes CDs and DVDs an unreliable backup medium. Computer users on the other hand do not use recordable CDs and DVDs just for [...]
How To Enable, Disable Encrypted Search In Google Chrome
A recent article on Neowin caught my attention that suggested that Google was changing the default search engine at least for some users to Google encrypted search. Whenever these users search they are automatically redirected to https://encrypted.google.com instead of the standard Google search address. Encrypted search, often referred to as Google SSL, improves the protection [...]
WikiLeaks Reveals State Department / Mubarak YouTube Talks
The protests against President Mubarak in Egypt have escalated in the last few days now that the beleaguered president has said that while he will step down, he won’t do so until September. To try and stop protests, or at least quell them, Egypt shut down almost its entire Internet service last week and much [...]
Expect Two More Firefox 4 Betas Before The Release Candidate
It was not clear if Mozilla needed one or two beta releases after Firefox 4 Beta 10 was released last week. The Mozilla Firefox development team is still trying to resolve the remaining severe bugs (betaN hardblockers) that are preventing the release of the next Firefox browser. Christian Legnitto, the Firefox release manager, made it [...]
Windows Media Player HTML5 Extension For Chrome
The announcement that Google would remove native H.264 playback support caused quite an uproar on the Internet (see Google Ditches H.264 Support In Google Chrome). Google Chrome up to this point was the only web browser that supported H.264, Theora and WebM8 videos which was bound to change with the announcement. Two browser camps have [...]
Google Chrome Tab Title Search Extension
Users who open many tabs at once in a web browser will eventually run into display problems. The browser window is only capable of displaying a finite number of tabs at the same time. Some browsers offer to change the minimum tab width (see Change Firefox’s Minimum, Maximum Tab Width), but that is only a [...]