Firefox 4 users have two backup options at hand when it comes to creating backups of the web browser (or more precisely their user profile); They can make use of the built-in Firefox Sync to backup passwords, bookmarks, the history and open tabs, or a local backup solution. The latter has the advantage that additional [...]
How To Flush The DNS Cache In Windows
The Microsoft Windows operating system stores all DNS look-ups in a cache to speed up the connection for future visits to previously visited websites or servers. DNS for simplifications sake turns domain names like ghacks.net into IP addresses like 96.30.22.116. To simplify it further: computer users make almost exclusive use of domain names, while computers [...]
26 Internet Websites That You Have Not Heard About, But Should
Every Internet user knows Facebook right? Gmail, Yahoo, Microsoft and Twitter are also fairly common. But have you ever heard of Jinni, Joongel or Jangle ? No? Then read on to find out what they, and 23 more sites have to offer. It is surprising that you cannot find a single site on the Internet [...]
Image Download II, Firefox Add-On To Batch Download Pictures
How do you save multiple images on a web page in Mozilla Firefox? You could right-click every single one of them and select Save Image As from the context menu. That may be an option if this is a one-time event, but what if you want to save images regularly? What if you found an [...]
Is Microsoft the Apple of my Eye?
It’s that old chestnut that rears it’s ugly head now and again, but usually with some alarming regularity. What am I talking about, well my apparent bias towards Microsoft of course and my hatred of Apple. At least that’s what the nay-sayers would have you believe. I always thought it would be entertaining one day [...]
How To Remove Services In Windows
Services in the Windows operating system are background processes that usually require no user interaction. They are automatically started with Windows, or when a certain event occurs that triggers them. Most system administrators distinguish between first party and third party services. First party services have been installed with the operating system, they are from Microsoft [...]
IOBit Unlocker, Remove Cannot Delete Files
Maybe you have experienced the following situation in Windows in the past; You try to delete a file in Windows Explorer but get a message that it cannot be deleted. Common messages include “Cannot delete file: Access is denied”, “The file is in use by another program or user” and ” Cannot delete file: It [...]
IE9 Creator, Generate Internet Explorer 9 Specific Web Content
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 introduces several new features, among them an option to pin websites to the Windows 7 Taskbar. Webmasters can customize the feature by adding meta information to their website’s header. How can webmasters add the content to their website? Everything is handled by meta tags that are added to the head area [...]
Start Faster Promises Faster Firefox Startup On Windows
In January we reported on a story that looked at a proposed patch to speed up the loading of Firefox on Windows systems. The proposed patch, nothing more than 20 lines of code, was said to improve the startup time by a factor of up to 2. The integration proofed to be more difficulty than [...]