Security has been one of the top topics of the last 30 days. We have had the Last Pass incident and the Sony PSN hack. Both incidents demonstrated that your data may be at risk, even if you play by the book and use the best security practices available. If you thought that’s all for [...]
Google Similar Pages Extension For Chrome
Unless you are running the new experimental search interface on Google, you can make use of a feature called similar pages directly on the search results page. This feature displays a list of related, or similar, websites, directly in the search results. Say you are fed up with Google Search and want alternatives. Instead of [...]
Google Music Beta, Invite Only Cloud Based Music Service
Google yesterday announced the immediate availability of Music Beta, a new cloud based music service that shows many parallels to Amazon’s Cloud Drive service that has been rolled out earlier this year. Google Music Beta in its current stage offers storage space in the cloud to store up to 20,000 songs. Plans are to turn [...]
Why Smaller Really Is Getting Better
There have been two recent advancements in technology that will make it easier for manufacturers to put a lot more punch in smaller packages. Intel released news about a new 3d transistor technology, and Seagate announced breaking the 1 TB per platter hard drive barrier. Both of these announcements show the drive for companies to [...]
Microsoft May 2011 Patch Day Overview
Microsoft has released two security bulletins on this month’s patch day. Every second Tuesday of a month is so called patch day at Microsoft where a number of security related updates are released. One of the security bulletin addresses securities in Microsoft Windows, the other in Microsoft Office. If you look at the maximum severity [...]
Microsoft Buys Skype, What Does It Mean For You?
Microsoft is buying Skype for $8.5 billion Dollars, that’s the big news today. This deal brings up lots of questions. Did Microsoft overpay for Skype? The current owners have bought Skype one and a half year ago from eBay for $2.75 billion Dollars, which makes the $8.5 billion Dollar offer an increase of more than [...]
Format Drives Larger Than 32 Gigabyte To Fat32 In Windows
It is usually recommended to format hard drive to NTFS in Windows as the file system offers several advantages over its alternative, Fat32. Sometimes however you may need to format a drive to Fat32, for instance if you run another device or computer that can only read Fat32 disks and not NTFS disks. That’s not [...]
Free FTP Client FTP Rush
I’m using WinSCP to transfer files from and to my web servers. The free sftp client offers everything that I could possibly need, and has never let me down. Not everyone likes WinSCP’s interface on the other hand. A viable alternative is the free ftp client FTP Rush. FTP Rush’s feature set looks fairly similar [...]
Seesu, Last.fm, VKontakte, Soundcloud Mashup
Seesu is a small software that combines the vast Last.fm music library and database with mp3 libraries on VKontakte and Soundcloud. At its core, Seesu is a music player with integrated mp3 download capabilities. It is available as a widget for the Opera web browser and Apple dashboard, as well as an extension and app [...]