It is a good idea to backup your Firefox profiles regularly to have options at hand when a profile needs to be restored. This can be the case after a hard drive crash, file corruption or update that caused problems. We have reviewed several backup options before, from the Firefox extenion FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup [...]
Opera Speed Dial Extensions Overview
With today’s release of Opera 11.50 comes a new feature that turns the static new tab page into a dynamic page. Speed Dial Extensions work basically like standard add-ons with the difference that they run only on the new tab page and not on other pages. They can be used to display information in real [...]
Which Tech Company are you most Aligned to?
The computing industry is unlike any other in the way that it divides people into one camp or another. People sometimes become fanatical about the way they follow one company, and they can be completely scathing about others. The example you’ll all be able to recognise here is Apple fans who will sometimes go to [...]
Opera 11.50 Final Released, Download Now
Despite releasing Opera 11.50, Opera seems to be one of the few browser developing companies left that have not yet jumped to an accelerated release cycle that shoots browser versions through the roof. That does not mean that the company is not pushing out new versions of the browser, but when they do, they use [...]
How to Customize Extra Mouse Buttons in Linux
If you are using a mouse, trackball, or touchpad with extra buttons in Windows, chances are the manufacturer has created software to configure the buttons. Rarely do they create such software for Linux. Btnx (button x) can be used to configure the mouse buttons in Linux for a variety of pointing devices. With a three [...]
OS Forensics, System Information Gathering Software
I recently wrote about tools and options people had to analyze computer usage. OS Forensics is a program for Microsoft Windows systems that I would have included in the guide if it had been released back then. The program is a system information gathering software. It is currently offered as a beta version. The developers [...]
Google hits out at Office 365, Makes a Hash of it!
Tomorrow Microsoft launch their new Office 365 business cloud platform integrating email, calendaring, office, sharepoint and intranets with communications and messaging. It’s a big platform with a big future ahead of it as I wrote about the other day. Now Google are hitting out with a blog post entitled “365 reasons to consider Google Apps“. [...]
Display All Windows 7 Control Panel Tools At Once
I have configured the Windows 7 Control Panel to display small icons instead of the unpractical categories that hide most of the tools and items. The main reason is that it provides a better overview of the available options and that it saves me some clicks every day. But changing the display to icons is [...]
Three Free Collection Management Programs Keep Your Collectables Safe
Many people tend to collect a lot of one thing or another – some people really enjoy a large media collection, others have hundreds of different model trains. What some fail to realize is that there are practical organizational solutions available for your computer that allow you to catalogue your collections – and most are [...]