Free online storage; every company and their mother seem to be offering cloud based storage these days. Amazon has joined the fray with Amazon Cloud Drive, offering five Gigabytes of free online storage to Amazon customers. It has been designed specifically for music, photos and documents, but it is possible to upload other files to [...]
Firefox 4 URL Trimming, Display Full Web Addresses
Probably one of the most annoying features of Firefox 4 is url trimming. The web address of a link is displayed in the bottom left corner of the browser when you hover over it with the mouse. The problem here is that the Mozilla’s developers decided to trim that address when it reaches a certain [...]
How To Find Free Music On iTunes
Music these days is anything but cheap. However, it is a hugely popular industry, and most people are currently buying their music digitally rather than physically. In fact, just this week Mercury Records have decided to scrap physical sales in favour of an entirely digital business. What this means is that you will now be [...]
Hotot: Give this new Linux twitter client a tweet
I use Twitter for a lot of things. One is to help promote my writing (both my fiction and technical writing). Because promotion seems like a 24/7 job, it is critical that the tools I use be easily accessible, low maintenance, and can run all day without causing any undo stress on my system. I have [...]
Associate File Extensions With Portable Applications
Portable software per definition does not store data on the operating system, only in its program folder. That’s a problem when it comes to launching files with portable software, as default program information are stored in the Windows Registry. Some users break the rule and assign file extensions to portable applications via Windows’ options. Others [...]
BlizzTV, All-In-One E-Sports News App
I came into contact with E-Sports back in the day when UT99 was first released by Epic. I played several leagues, mostly CTF at that time and enjoyed the competition tremendously. Back then E-Sports was not really ready for mainstream, maybe with the exception of Korea and their state religion Starcraft. I quit after the [...]
Where’s My Phone Update?
If you, like me, have a Windows Phone and are wondering just when you’ll get a message telling you that an update is available, fear not. Already we have two updates for Microsoft’s new mobile OS. The first was released back in February and simply contained an update to the phone update process itself. Ther [...]
How To Backup True Crypt Data To Be Prepared For Emergencies
I have been using the encryption software True Crypt for years and ran only once into a situation where I nearly lost all the data on one of the partitions. Back then the header of the volume became corrupt, but since I had a backup of the header I was able to restore it so [...]
Amazon Appstore Introduces Test Drive Now Feature
Buying smartphone apps is a lot like buying computer games: You buy the app based on description and reviews, or if you are lucky, based on a free version that you were able to test. There is usually no option to test an app before you purchase it, unless it is offered as a free [...]