The topic came up recently on our How To Uninstall Windows Internet Explorer 9 guide: Is it possible to remove or uninstall Internet Explorer 8 from Windows 7? The short answer is no, it is not. At least not if you mean to completely remove the web browser from the operating system. Internet Explorer 8 [...]
What To Do When Your Email Account is Compromised
More and more I see spam coming from friends when I open my e-mail. In addition to this, people are telling me that they think their e-mail accounts have been hacked. Signs can be friends receiving messages you did not send, mail is marked read that they never saw, settings are changed, or anything else [...]
Dropboxifier, Move Folders To Dropbox Without Losing Functionality
I know several computer users who use the file hosting and syncing software Dropbox to host some of their application’s data. This includes for instance the Firefox profile folder which they can then access effortlessly from all connected computer systems. That way they always use the same and up to date Firefox profile folder and [...]
ArcThemAll, Lightweight Multi-Archiver Software
Good archiving software combines support for popular formats such as zip or rar with solid performance and light resource usage. I’m currently using two different programs: 7-Zip for all my archiving needs and the excellent Extract Now for extracting multiple archives at once. Why two and not just one program for all unpacking and archiving [...]
Manage Third Party Access To Google, Twitter, Facebook And Dropbox
Apis of popular web applications like Facebook, Google, Dropbox or Twitter allow third party developers to create services and tools that offer additional features or functionality. These third party services require user authorization before they can access account related data. One example of such a service is Find Big Email which crawls all your Google [...]
Find Big Emails In Gmail
Roman messaged me yesterday about a problem one of his friend’s was experiencing. His friend’s Gmail account was more or less at the storage size limit which meant that the friend either needed to buy additional storage from Gmail, or delete emails. Deleting the largest emails in the inbox should free up some space. But [...]
How To Switch Firefox Update Channels
We have mentioned earlier that the Firefox development team had plans to switch to an accelerated development process. According to those plans, the development process would be divided into four stages that would on average take a new build in 18 weeks from its first appearance to release. Builds would be moved to new channels [...]
Building A Custom PC 2011 Part 1: The Assessment
I’m building a new PC every 18 months or so and post the progress of selecting the right PC components here on this blog. I actually spend more most of my time on the evaluation of computer hardware, as I have to live with the selection for the next 12 to 18 months. Bad choices [...]
Zoom Image Userscript
For a while now I have been looking for a way to zoom images in the Firefox web browser with minimal effort. Something similar to the excellent Hoover Zoom extension for the Google Chrome browser. And while there have been some extensions and userscripts that supported some sites, there was barely anything that would work [...]