Firefox 4 users are not the only ones who under certain circumstances have to cope with blurry fonts in the web browser. Some Internet Explorer 9 users are also left with blurry fonts on their system which can be attributed to Internet Explorer 9′s automatic font smoothing. While I personally like font smoothing in Internet [...]
Does it really matter if we don’t upgrade our PCs anymore?
There are all manner of images, screenshots and leaked details coming out now about Windows 8 and we already know a lot about what Microsoft want this product to be. We know it’s going to be smaller, quicker and more agile than even Windows 7 was able to be. It’s going to have to run [...]
This File Appears To Be Malicious, Google Chrome Safe Browsing Protection
Chrome users on the developer channel or Canary will see download warnings if they try to download a file on a website that matches the list of malicious websites published by Google’s Safe Browsing Api. The warning reads “This file appears to be malicious. Are you sure you want to continue” with options to discard [...]
Add easy-to-add functionality you your .Net Development Project with NuGet
NuGet is a Visual Studio 2010 extension that enables you to download and use shared code libraries with the Microsoft development community. This is Microsoft’s attempt to benefit from a large development community and pool of shared code, a concept enjoyed by many open source communities such as Drupal and Ruby on Rails. The extension [...]
WordPress 3.1.1 Released, Fixes Security Issues
The developers of the popular WordPress blogging script have just released an update that raises the version of WordPress to 3.1.1. WordPress 3.1.1 is a security update which means that it is a mandatory update for all webmasters who run public self-hosted WordPress blogs. The blog post that announced the new version of WordPress mentioned [...]
Topicmarks Summarizes Text Documents For Faster Learning
Would not it be great if you could get a two paragraph summary about Shakespear’s Hamlet instead of having to read the whole book? The answer is no of course, but bare with me for a moment. Sometimes you do not have enough time to read all of a text document. Maybe you have a [...]
Monitor Your Work Breaks With Breaker
I tend to forget the time when I need things done on the computer. It can happen that I sit down in the morning to leave the workplace for the first time in the evening, unless you’d count getting another cup of coffee which I do fairly regularly. Breaks are important to reload your batteries, [...]
Windows Explorer: Display Drive Letters Before Drive Names
Hard disk drives, devices with removable storage and network locations are displayed with their name followed by their drive letter. The device names can be customized which is for instance helpful to distinguish between different hard drives since the default naming convention lists them all as Local Disk in Windows Explorer. The convention to display [...]
How Spill-Proof is Your Expensive New Keyboard?
In the last few years the world of computer peripherals has changed with many high-end products coming to market. Now though a great many of these products are the norm with keyboards and mice now costing over £100 ($150). We’ve generally accepted these price increases as consumers as commonly they bring additional benefits such as [...]