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Google Chrome Stable Security And Feature Update

The Google chrome development team has released Chrome Stable 10.0.648.127 for the supported operating systems Microsoft Windows, Linux and Apple Macintosh. The new version fixes several, or shall we say many, security issues. The release notes list a total of 25 different security related issues that have been fixed in Google Chrome Stable. 15 of [...]

Author: , Tuesday March 8, 2011
Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Computer Customizer, Add Quick Links To My Computer

Windows has several areas that are not as customizable as I would like them to be. The start menu comes to mind with its static links that cannot be changed, or Windows Explorer. I and several other users I spoke with would like more customization options, while the general Windows user base seems to be [...]

Author: , Tuesday March 8, 2011
Categories: Software, Windows

Google Chrome Cloud Save, Store Files In The Cloud

The cloud, the final frontier. Endless. Silent. Waiting. This is the story of the Google Chrome extension Cloud Save. Its mission: To provide Internet users with a way to save files that they have found on the web to the cloud, without saving them first on the local computer. Cloud Save is a new extension [...]

Author: , Tuesday March 8, 2011
Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

A Close Look At Adobe Flash Player 10.3 Beta

Adobe’s Flash Player is one of the most installed technologies on desktop computer systems. Adobe estimates that more than 99% of Internet viewers have Flash installed on their system. Criticism of Adobe Flash, and Adobe’s handling of Flash related issues, has risen in past years. Major points of criticism include private and security related issues [...]

Author: , Tuesday March 8, 2011
Categories: Adobe

Leo Backup Review And Giveaway

Data backups play a key role in disaster recovery plans. Many Windows users on the other hand do not backup their data regularly, if at all. Windows itself comes with several recovery options, from shadow copies to the built-in system restore – but those may not be enough, depending on the “disaster” that struck. What [...]

Author: , Tuesday March 8, 2011
Categories: Software, Windows

Youtube TV Mode, Automatic Fullscreen Youtube Videos

Youtube is without doubt currently the most popular and known video hosting website in the world. The site, despite its popularity, lacks several features that would improve a visitor’s usability considerably. Two of the missing features that come to mind are the ability to select a specific minimum and maximum video quality automatically, and to [...]

Author: , Monday March 7, 2011
Categories: Browsing, Firefox

What’s The Best Bookmark Manager?

Every web browser comes with bookmarking capabilities, and while bookmarking is not as popular as it was ten years ago, it is fair to assume that the majority of computer users make use of bookmarks. What is a bookmark? Standard bookmarks are nothing more than links that point to a web address. Bookmarks are like [...]

Author: , Monday March 7, 2011
Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera

FabTabs, Displays Firefox Tabs In Website Colors

The tabs in Firefox look all the same, with the exception of the active tab that is displayed more prominently. This leaves the website’s favicon and the first letters of the page title for identification purposes. FabTabs introduces another, automatic, option to distinguish and identify websites. The Firefox extension takes a screenshot of each website [...]

Author: , Monday March 7, 2011
Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Your Country Can Only View This Image By Logging Into ImageShack

ImageShack is one of the popular image hosting websites on the Internet. The service has been around for a long time and open to users from all over the world ever since it was created. Up until February of 2011 everyone was able to embed images on their own website. Visitors were able to view [...]

Author: , Monday March 7, 2011
Categories: The Web

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