The tablet market is exploding and growing exponentially, but it’s still not reaching a critical mass with the general public not embracing them in the way they did netbooks. So why is this happening and how do tablets need to change in order for them to become the next generation of computing device. Let’s look primarily [...]
Keep Your Chrome Plugins Up To Date with Plugin Updater
Outdated browser plugins are a popular attack vector on today’s Internet. This can be largely attributed to the fact that no standard exists to keep the plugins up to date. Some companies that develop plugins try to resolve the issue with background processes that are running 24/7 on the user’s system. That’s highly problematic as [...]
Protect Your Source Code With Source Backup
Most development programs have built-in options to save or backup the source files automatically. While that’s definitely helpful it sometimes may not be enough as they are stored on the same computer as the originals. Source code could get deleted or corrupted in a hard drive crash, affected by a virus or other malicious software, [...]
What will the new GNOME desktops mean for other Linux desktops?
It’s almost time. Soon a new paradigm of GNOME is going to drop onto the desktops of suspecting (and unsuspecting) users. When this does there is going to be reaction. As with any major change to the computer industry, users are going to have both negative and positive reactions. Some will go so far as [...]
Google Adds Block All Domain Results To Search
The Chrome extension Personal Blocklist was apparently only the first step in Google’s quest for a personalized user experience on Google Search. You may remember that Personal Blocklist was introduced to give Chrome users options to block domain names from appearing in Google’s search results. The domains are simply filtered out of the results, which [...]
6 Tips To Get You Started With Firefox 4
The Firefox 4 release candidate has been released yesterday and it is only a matter of days, or weeks at the most, until the final version of the web browser is released. Many Firefox 3 users are impatiently waiting for the final version of the browser that has been delayed more than once in the [...]
How To Fill Out PDF Forms On Your Computer
Some PDF documents contain forms that you may need to fill out. Many computer users print the pdf document to fill out the form manually on the printout. This means more work for the user and a document that looks unprofessional. What many do not know is that their pdf reader is likely capable of [...]
Personal Activity Monitor, Record Applicaton Usage
How much time are you spending in front of your computer per day? Do you know how much time do you spend surfing the web, answering emails or chatting with friends over Skype? Personal Activity Monitor assists you in finding the answers. The application has been designed as a monitoring tool to improve the productivity [...]
Improve Firefox’s Image Viewer With Image Tools
The built-in image viewing capabilities of the Firefox web browser are severely limited. Every image viewer under the sun does better than that. Want examples? How about rotating images, or viewing all images that are displayed on a specific web page? In addition, the zooming is not that comfortable either as it requires to hold [...]