It felt like aeons but the developers of uTorrent have finally published the first beta version of version 3 of the popular Bittorrent client. The beta is offered as a 32-bit and 64-bit version for the Windows operating system. The developers state that the 64-bit version “may be considerably buggier than the 32-bit release”, most [...]
Active Edge Screen Actions in KDE 4.6
Being Linux fans, you all know that Linux offers a lot of ways to manage the desktop. One of the best ways that Linux offers for keeping your desktop organized is multiple desktops. This feature has been around since nearly the beginning of the Linux desktop. Multiple desktops (or workspaces) allow you to create a [...]
OSFClone, Self-Booting Tool To Create Hard Drive Copies
Disk cloning or copying serves several purposes. It can be helpful for users who want to migrate to a larger hard drive for instance, or used for forensic or file recovery purposes as it is usually advised not to work with the original source. You find plenty of disk imaging tools on the Internet, some [...]
Firefox Image Preview, Display Target Images On Mouse Over
One of the things that I really missed in Firefox was an option to hover over an image to display a preview of it on the same page. I’m often browsing websites that only display thumbnails, or smaller versions of images, on their pages. It is then necessary to click on that thumbnail image to [...]
Facebook Adds (Optional) Two-Factor Authentication
Two-Factor Authentication seems to be the next big thing to protect accounts from unauthorized access. Google recently enabled the feature for Google Accounts and now it is Facebook’s turn to introduce a similar feature for all Facebook users. Two-Factor Authentication is being rolled out at the moment which means that the new feature is not [...]
Convert Multiple FLAC Music Files To Mp3
Audiophiles prefer the FLAC losless format over mp3 when it comes to listening to music. That’s fine if you have enough storage space to store the larger FLAC files, but not so much if you do not have enough storage space to store files that take up five times as much space as mp3 files. [...]
How Web Accounts Get Hacked
Hacking into an e-mail, Facebook, or other account is often a crime of opportunity. That is not to say talented individuals with advanced knowledge are not a threat, but it can be easier than you think to expose your password. For those that have had their account compromised in the past, one of these methods [...]
Opera Link Overview, Discovering Opera Part 4
We are already at part 4 of the Discovering Opera series and there does not seem to be an end in sight. We are going to take a closer look at Opera Link in this part of the series. Opera Link is a synchronization service that works similar to Firefox Sync or Google Sync. Opera [...]
Streamwriter, Record Internet Radio Stations
One of the easiest ways to obtain music legally is to record Internet radio. Tools for the job have evolved a lot over past years, from command line applications to powerful programs that can record dozens of Internet radio stations at the same time. StreamWriter is such an application. The program has a lot to [...]