The Open Source software jPDF Tweak offers options to manipulate one or multiple pdf documents. Have you ever felt the need to split or merge pdf files, move pages around or add watermarks to a number of pdfs? If you answered yes to at least one of the questions then jPDF Tweak is the software [...]
Oracle Finally Releases Java 6 Update 24
Critical Java vulnerabilities were discovered in the beginning of February which affected the Java Runtime Environment and Java Development Kit. The affected versions were JRE 6 Update 23 and earlier on all supported operating systems. Instead of releasing a security patch right away, Oracle decided to release a command line tool first to patch the [...]
Dell Plans To Show Windows 8 Tablet In Q1 2012
Leaks are our primary source of information at this point in development when it comes to Microsoft’s next operating system Windows 8. According to an internal tablet roadmap Dell is planing to release a Windows 8 powered Tablet codenamed Peju in the first quarter of 2012. The interesting aspect of this is not that Dell [...]
IBM’s Super-Computer “Destroys all Humans” at Jeopardy
In case you missed this story, IBM have been wanting to test the new Natural Language AI engine in their Watson supercomputer, so they arranged for it to appear on US game show Jeopardy. This particular show was chosen because the nature of the questions means that it’s not a simple case of word recognition, [...]
Firefox 5 Could Look Like This
With Firefox 4 almost out of the door the Mozilla Firefox UI team starts to concentrate their efforts on the next version of the browser, Firefox 5. Time is of essence as the team recently announced that they would accelerate the development of the web browser. With three more versions of the browser targeted for [...]
Repair Windows Media Player With Microsoft Fix It
Microsoft has released a new Fix It solution to repair several Windows Media Player solutions. A Fix It solution is a script that runs like any other executable. It will directly repair problems in the Windows operating system or programs running on it without further user interaction. The Windows Media Player Fix It repairs several [...]
Internet Explorer 9 ActiveX Filtering: Fix Flash, Java And Other Plugins
I have seen several reports on the Internet that users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 have troubles playing Flash videos, Java apples, games and other contents powered by plugins such as Java or Adobe Flash. The reports have emerged after the release of the IE9 Release Candidate and it seems that they are linked to [...]
Firefox Download View
Computer users who want to access a list of recent Firefox downloads need to open the web browser to access that list providing that the download records are stored and not deleted on exit or user request. Downloads are listed under Tools > Downloads or by using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-j. Firefox Download View is [...]
DriveLetterView, Manage Windows Drive Letters
Drive letters in Windows; The operating system assigns a drive letter when the hardware is first connected to the system. That drive letter is usually kept until the drive gets disconnected again. DriveLetterView is a new Nirsoft application that displays drive letters from all devices including local hard drives, remote network drives, USB drives, flash [...]