Mozilla has changed the add-on manager in Firefox 4. The reworked add-on control panel is now opening in its own tab, listing the available add-on related entries on the left, and the actual add-ons, plugins, userscripts and themes on the right. The add-on listing uses quite a bit of space, which should not be a [...]
How To Change A Windows Account Name And User Profile Folder Name
Changing a user’s account name in Windows is a straightforward, easy to achieve task. The problem that many users experience after changing the name is that the name of the profile folder is not changed during the process. Say you have a user account Martin and a user profile folder under c:\users\Martin. If you change [...]
KDE’s Dolphin tips and tricks
If you are using the latest, greatest KDE, then you are enjoying the default Dolphin file manager. Although you can still make use of Konqueror as the file manager, it only makes sense to go with the default behavior, as described by the KDE developers. So for those of you who do want to play [...]
5 Useful Internet Tools For Web Junkies
5 Useful Internet Tools looks at web applications that Internet users may find useful. These tools aid you in various tasks, from storing information to specific web searches and reminding you that your Internet time for the day is up. The usefulness of the tools depends largely on how you are using the Internet. If [...]
Ming-A-Ling, Language Learning Add-On For Firefox
So, language learning. It can either be a pretty boring task, especially if you are in school and have to do it, or exciting, if you want to learn a language, for instance to read Goethe’s Faust in German or Tolkins’ Lord of the Rings in English. But even with all the excitement, a large [...]
New To Windows 7? Do This First!
The Windows 7 operating system is climbing in rapid pace on the market share graph. If you look at the Windows 7 market share for the first quarter of 2011, you notice that the operating system has now about double the share of Windows Vista, its predecessor, and half of that of Windows XP. With [...]
FlashVideoReplacer, Play Web Videos In A Different Media Player
Web video is still largely powered by Adobe’s Flash technology. Sure, some sites like Youtube begin to offer videos in different formats like WebM, but Adobe Flash is still the dominant format, even on Youtube. That’s a problem if Flash is not working properly on your system. If you experience lags, endless buffering or other [...]
Freemake Video Downloader, Download Videos From The Internet
A video downloader should be reliable and comfortable to use. What’s meant by that? Reliable means that it should provide the means to download videos from many sites, and that it is regularly updated to stay compatible with video portals if the video site owners make changes to the website or the way videos are [...]
LinkedIn Thanks Their First Million Members as They Hit 100 Million
Business social networking website LinkedIn has sent emails to everyone of their first one million members, including myself, to thank them for being an “early adopter” and “help[ing] lead the way” with the adoption of new technologies. In a clever marketing campaign they’re even telling people what member number they were, in my case number [...]