Last week a bill was tabled in the American senate that would allow the Department of Justice to take out a court order against sites accused of infringing copyright. Google’s Erik Schmidt came out strongly against the bill in London on the 18th. Is this an attempt on Google to do no evil, or is [...]
Improve Firefox’s History With From Where To Where
The Firefox history lists all web pages that have been visited by you in chronological order. What you do not see is how you got there, and how and if the history pages are interlinked. The Firefox add-on From Where To Where collects those information and makes the available in the browser. This can be [...]
MTail, Auto-Updating Text Viewer With Notifications
MTail replicates the Unix command Tail. Its main purpose is to display and auto-update text documents like log files. That, combined with options to configure alarms and notifications makes it a strong tool for system administrators and webmasters who need to monitor specific log files on a computer system. While it is ideal for log [...]
TextMorph, Powerful Text Formatting Software
TextMorph is a powerful text formatting software for Windows. It is a specialized tool that has all the capabilities of a program like Notepad plus tools to process individual or multiple text documents. That said, it is not really intended to be used as a text editor; Its main function is to clean up text [...]
Becoming a Microsoft MVP
Since being awarded my MVP from Microsoft on January 1st this year I’ve had a fair few questions from people asking about the MVP program, what it is, what the benefits are and how you can become one. I thought I’d write this up here for you all as a guide as we all know [...]
Opera 11.11 Final
Opera Software has officially released Opera 11.11 Final a few seconds ago. The version has been available on Opera’s ftp server since yesterday, and many software download portals like Softpedia or Betanews have offered the new version since then. While it may be tempting to download a new browser version a day early, it is [...]
How To Import RSS Feeds Into Opera
I’m currently testing new RSS feed readers, and one of the programs that I have been looking at is the RSS reader in Opera, or more precisely in Opera’s Mail module. RSS Feeds have been supported for quite some time in Opera. Depending on how you use Opera, you may have troubles figuring out how [...]
Sony’s back up! Sort of…
Sony’s PSN services are finally being restored. The three week long hiatus is finally over. They have instituted new rules for security’s sake. But is it enough? Why is Japan still out of the loop? How much of a black eye will Sony have due to this outage? On April 20, Sony’s PSN was hacked [...]
Unfriend Finder, Find Out Who Has Removed You From Their Friendlist On Facebook
Friends on the social networking site Facebook are not necessarily only people that you know. It is actually very easy to befriend someone on Facebook, and almost as easy to unfriend them again. Unfriend in this context means to remove the person from the friendlist on Facebook. Some Facebook users may want to know if [...]