When you look at various sign in and log in forms on sites and services like Google Mail, Facebook, Yahoo Mail or Hotmail you will notice that they all look different despite sharing the same basic principle. Users somehow need to enter their username and password, and often have options to stay logged in for [...]
The Details of Amazon’s Free Music Storing
Amazon’s Cloud Drive service now lets you store previously purchased music for free and any music for free with a paid subscription. Anyone who signed up via buying an album (a promotion Amazon was running) is included, but it is a limited time offer. The ins and outs of the change, while ultimately beneficial, are [...]
Learn To Fly 2 [Game Saturday]
If you were a penguin, would not you want to be able to fly as well? That’s at least what the player is up against in the sequel to last year’s smash hit Learn To Fly. The game comes packed with three different game modes: story, arcade and classic. Story mode puts you against obstacles [...]
Migrate Facebook and Twitter To Your Desktop Together with Seesmic
Over the years we have posted several different plugins and applications that helps make social networking easier by making it more readily available. There really is no reason that users of the big networks like Facebook and Twitter need to go to the websites of their programs when trying to do normal, ordinary tasks. After [...]
Avoiding EFS Encryption Disasters in Windows
Our data is becoming more and more important to us as we’re keeping ever more of our lives on our PCs, tablets, smartphones and in the cloud. Currently there are precious few ways to encrypt this data in a way that’s guaranteed to be trouble-free. Two of the most obvious being hard disks with encryption [...]
ChrisPC Free Anonymous Proxy
Having a free anonymous proxy at hand can be very helpful in certain situations. Have you ever visited a website or service where access to content was rejected because of the country you were accessing those contents from? A proxy could help you overcome those IP checks as it allows you to connect to the [...]
Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Finally Get Hotmail SSL Support
Microsoft did enable full session HTTPS encryption for their Hotmail email service back in November 2010. This was regarded by experts and users alike as a step in the right direction, considering that SSL connections improve security significantly over standard HTTP connections. Less than a year later more than two million users have opted in [...]
Firefox 7 Aurora Shows Significant Memory Usage Improvements
We have talked about Mozilla’s move to improve Firefox memory usage starting with Firefox 7. Up until yesterday those improvements were only available in Firefox Nightly builds. Mozilla rolled out Firefox 7 to the Aurora channel today, and boy has memory usage gone down. The memory usage of the browser was usually in the 300 [...]
Logitech G930 Wireless PC Gaming Headset Review
Up until a few days ago I worked with wired PC headset exclusively. That worked considerably well, with the exception of the rate that I burned through those headsets. I usually needed to buy a new one every six to nine months or so, mostly because of cable problems. It came to the point that [...]