When you install a new application on a Linux distribution, that enjoys the Enlightenment E17 desktop, sometimes those applications will automatically add a menu entry and sometimes they won’t. When an application is installed, you might find yourself looking through the entire menu hierarchy to find it’s launcher. If there isn’t one there, what do [...]
Microsoft Safety Scanner, Free On-Demand Virus Scanner
Microsoft has just released a program called Microsoft Safety Scanner, a free on-demand virus scanner for the Windows operating system. The program’s main task is to run a virus scan on a Windows system. The core difference to conventional antivirus software is the fact that it scans the PC but does not add protection to [...]
Pilfer, Firefox Image Browser For Numbered Images
Image browsing can be a lot easier if you have the right tools at hand. Imagine a directory with 50, 100 or even 500 images that are all named similarly and only differ in the last digiits or some characters of the file name. Wouldn’t it be more comfortable to see all images of that [...]
Dual Monitor Tools For Windows
Microsoft has improved dual monitor support under Windows 7. It is for instance relatively easy to setup a multi-monitor system and make use of some of the operating system’s built in feature to manage the display and application windows on those two monitors. While support has been improved, it is not nearly as sophisticated or [...]
Internet Explorer 10 Will Not Support Vista, XP
It was more or less clear that Microsoft’s upcoming web browser Internet Explorer 10 would not support Windows XP, considering that Internet Explorer 9 did not support the operating system as well. Windows Vista users on the other hand were caught by surprise that their operating system would not be supported by IE10 as well. [...]
Opera Turbo Overview, Discovering Opera Part 1
The developers of the Opera web browser have been inventive in past years, and it is a confirmation of their hard work that many of the features that they have introduced in Opera are now part of nearly every other Internet browser as well. Not all features on the other hand have been “borrowed” by [...]
Auto DJ, Free DJ Mixing Software
Auto DJ is an uncomplicated free DJ mixing software that’s ideal for private parties and other events where you need better sound mixing options or prefer not to just play songs from a playlist. When you start the program for the first time you notice that the interface can be separated into three parts. You [...]
VLC Media Player Security Update
VLC Media Player is one of the most popular media players, next to Windows Media Player and MPlayer frontends. A high popularity usually has the downside that criminals try to find and exploit security vulnerabilities in the software or service. Several of the most recent updates of VLC were or did include security updates that [...]
ImgLikeOpera, Load Images Selectively To Speed Up The Web
I’m used to a very fast Internet broadband connection, pages usually display in less than a second or two, and I rarely ever have to wait longer than that. This changes noticeably when I use a wireless connection to connect to the Internet. Speed is terribly slow and connections sometimes reset for no apparent reason. [...]