All web browsers are getting serious overhauls with the most recent being Internet Explorer 9 with its new one box. This is a unified address and search box and it makes sense as you could always search from the URL box in browsers anyway. Now ConceivablyTech are reporting that Google is now considering its options [...]
Competition: Win HTML5 Step by Step in Paperback
The web is moving towards HTML5 with all new browsers supporting the standard including Chrome, Firefox and the forthcoming Internet Explorer 9. This new scripting language. It adds new tags including <AUDIO><VIDEO> and the <CANVAS> tag that can be used for creating effective animation and text effects. The language now allows you to embed all [...]
Some cool quick Linux command line tricks
If you’ve used Linux long enough, you know there are some seriously cool tricks you can pull from the command line. Some of these tricks are just for fun, but the vast majority of them actually serve a purpose. It is the latter type of trick I want to highlight here. The purpose they serve [...]
Webcomic Reader, Godsend For Comic Lovers
What’s the main difference between reading comics online and reading physical comic books? Flipping pages usually takes more time online, the speed depends largely on the user’s computer and Internet connection speed. The userscript Webcomic Reader offers a partial solution for the problem. Partial? Yes, it is only compatible with site’s specified b the developer. [...]
Click-n-Type, Virtual Keyboard For The Disabled
The virtual keyboard software Click-n-Type has been designed especially for disabled people who cannot operate a physical keyboard but a mouse, trackball, joystick or other input device that allows them to send clicks to the computer screen. The program is available as a portable version and setup, the functionality of both is the same. An [...]
Facebook Image Link For Google Chrome
The recent photo viewer changes on Facebook have caused quite the controversy among Facebook users. Facebook introduced a new photo view mode about a week ago. Among the complaints is that a right-click on a photo does not reveal options to copy its web address anymore which makes it that much harder to display images [...]
System Restore Manager, Manage Windows System Restore Points, Settings
System Restore is a built-in feature in the Windows operating system that users can utilize to rollback recent changes. System restore points are for instance created before Windows updates are installed to give the user an option to rollback in case the update caused incompatibilities or other issues. The main problem that most Windows users [...]
ClipCube, Stores Clipboard Text For Later Use
One of the disadvantages of the built-in Windows Clipboard is that it can only store one record at a time so that it is not possible to access previously stored items again. A history, and the ability to save multiple items would be a godsend for many users. For now, third party tools are the [...]
Change The Firefox Default Zoom Level
Firefox, like any other web browser, offers options to zoom in or out of a web page temporarily which can be useful if a website uses fonts that are either to large or to small. Another application is to increase the font size if high-definition displays are used. Two of the biggest complaints about Firefox’s [...]