You know that I like the Donationcoder project, not only the applications that the team releases free of charge but even more so the philosophy behind the site. The guys that run the site and code for it are a friendly bunch, and services like the option to get a custom program coded in hours [...]
Use MailStore To Backup Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Emails
Cloud based email is great. Providers such as Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo Mail offer web access to their email services that allow users to access their emails from everywhere, provided that they have an Internet connection and compatible web browser at hand. A minority of Gmail users recently noticed that all of their emails were [...]
Bins Review, Windows 7 Taskbar Organizer
Remember Fences? The program helped users organize their computer desktop by offering advanced grouping and hiding options. The developers of Fences are currently working on a new project called Bins, which they call a Taskbar Organizer. The main idea behind Bins is to merge multiple pinned taskbar items into one icon. You may have read [...]
ISO Workshop, Create, Convert Burn CD, DVD Images
Disk image formats like ISO are quite common on the Internet in these days. Many Linux distributions are for instance are provided as ISO image downloads. ISO images are usually downloaded from the Internet and burned to CD, DVD or Blu-Ray. Burning is without doubt the most common task that is associated with iso images, [...]
Improve Firefox’s Urlbar With Locationbar2
The website address is an essential element of any web browser, or at least of the browser’s of this generation as some browser developers experiment with designs that remove the addresses fully or partially from the browser (see Mozilla Also Experimenting With Url Bar-less Designs and Will Google Kill the URL Bar in Chrome?). Why [...]
Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.8, Firefox 3.6.14, 3.5.17 Updates Released
Mozilla Messaging has released a new version of the desktop email client Thunderbird. Thunderbird 3.1.8. is a security, stability and performance upgrade for the stable version of the email software. Not all pages have been updated yet to reflect the new release. Bugzilla lists a total of 56 bug fixes of which 13 have a [...]
iSafePDF, Free Software To Encrypt, Sign PDF Documents
The open source software iSafePDF can be used to manipulate existing pdf documents. More precisely, it offers options to add information and security features to pdf documents. The portable application displays a list of tabbed options after it has been launched. The first three offer the manipulation options, the fourth – console – displays a [...]
Google Chrome Stable Security Update
Google has just released a new version of the Google Chrome Stable browser. The new version of Google Chrome Stable is 9.0.597.107 for all supported platforms (which means Linux, Windows and Mac). The update is a security release as it fixes several security vulnerabilities that have been discovered in previous versions of the browser. The [...]
Opera Hardware Acceleration Demo Is Blazingly Fast
Two of the top five web browsers on today’s Internet do not support hardware acceleration in their latest public releases. We are obviously talking about the Opera browser and Safari. Opera however has tweaked their implementation of hardware acceleration in the browser since 2008, when the company released a first working demo. Three years later, [...]