I have the feeling that most innovation in gaming comes from independent developers who produce low-budget contents for gaming consoles, the PC or web browsers. Bela Kovacs and The Trail of Blood pushes the limits of a web browser game. It is a beautifully looking adventure game in which you take over the role of [...]
Firefox EPUB Reader, Read EPUB Ebooks Online
EPUB, which stands for Electronic Publication is an open ebook standard. It offers features such as css styling, word wrap or vector images, and its files – the ebooks – have the extension epub. A lot of ebook related sites on the Internet offer their books in epub format. The format is especially popular on [...]
How To Disable Google Search Redirects
Many websites look up the IP address that you are connecting with, or other browser header information, to redirect you automatically to a language specific website. While those systems usually get it right, they are annoying for users who do not want to be redirected to a country specific domain name or different language version. [...]
Storing Data In The Cloud With Dropbox And TrueCrypt
In Why You Need To Protect Your Data In The Cloud I have explained why it is important to protect data that you upload to the cloud. In this guide, I will show you how to implement one of the suggestions: Encryption. I’m using the cloud hosting and synchronization service Dropbox and the Open Source [...]
Marble, Virtual Interactive Globe
Marble has been designed to be a virtual interactive globe and world atlas that you can use to look-up information. The cross-platform application has recently been updated to version 1.1, reason enough to take a closer look at the software. The main interface that you see after installation displays a globe and several controls on [...]
Why You Need To Protect Your Data In The Cloud
Several events recently have shown some of the weaknesses, or dangers, of cloud based hosting, and the need for information and guides to aid users in protecting their data in the cloud. To keep it simple: The cloud in the context of this article refers to all remote storage locations that you do not have [...]
Ashampoo Hacked, Watch Out For Fake Customer Emails
Popular software developer Ashampoo is currently emailing their customers about a recently discovered successful hack on one of their servers. The break-in had been discovered by Ashampoo, and the company interrupted it and closed the security gap that the hackers used to gain access. Unfortunately though, customer address data and email addresses were stolen by [...]
Copy Links For Firefox Lets You Copy Multiple Links At Once
I occasionally use JDownloader to download files that are hosted on free file sharing hosts like Rapidshare, Filesonic, Oron or any of the other ten thousand file hosting sites on the Internet. I usually copy a link to the clipboard which gets then automatically picked up by JDownloader’s Linkgrabber. That’s comfy for single links on [...]
Mobile Media Converter, Cross-Platform Audio, Video Conversion Software
You encounter so many different video and audio formats both on your computer and on the Internet that you often need a software to convert media to make it compatible with your preferred software or hardware media players. The sheer amount of formats available sometimes makes this a difficulty process, considering that you need to [...]