The iPad’s rise and rise has now surpassed 1% of all web browsing, according to figures released by NetMarketShare. While Internet Explorer, in its various guises, has dropped again in market share to just 53.68% of the overall market, Safari owns 7.48%. This means that Safari and Google’s Chrome operating systems are the only web browsers [...]
Facebook Introduces Group Chat, Video Calling, Design Changes
I’m watching Facebook’s live video stream right now like many other tech interested users. Facebook promised to announce something awesome today. The rumor that it was live video chat, or video calling as they call it, proved to be true. But that’s only part of the announcement. Facebook is actually announcing three new features today, [...]
CacheViewer Fx5, Firefox Disk Cache Gui
The Firefox web browser maintains three different caches: The memory cache, the disk cache and the offline cache. It is possible to access those caches from within the browser by loading the about:cache page in the browser’s address bar, or by opening the cache location on the computer’s hard drive. The latter method is obviously [...]
Surplus For Chrome Lets You Use Google+ From Anywhere
Up until now the only way to share a web page, story or information on Google+ was to open the Google+ website to do so. That’s not overly comfortable, especially not so if you are not having the service open all the time in your browser tab. The new Google Chrome extension Surplus changes the [...]
Windows 7 MAC Address Changer
Typically there is no reason to change the MAC address of a computer’s network adapter. Reasons may be because of technical problems with the current MAC address, hard coded MAC address support of services or devices, or to change the MAC address to make identification difficult. Previously reviewed software MAC Makeup had a lot to [...]
BatteryInfoView, Detailed Battery Information, History
One of the things that mobile users constantly need to have an eye on is the battery status of their device. It does not really matter if it is a smartphone, netbook, laptop or tablet PC. All have in common that they run on battery, and will stop working if battery drops below the minimum [...]
All Your Private Profiles Are Belong To Us
Google’s receiving mostly warm receptions from Internet geeks, websites and standard users for their new Google+ social networking service. The company learned to use the Internet hype machine perfectly for their purposes to push the service out in the open. While it is not really clear how we will perceive the service in one year’s [...]
Pull Sticky Notes off the Widget Panel and Into Practicality with Stickies
Back when Vista came out some years ago the widget panel was supposed to drastically change the way that Windows users utilized their machines. It didn’t. Few people wound up using it at all, finding it a hassle to dig back down to the desktop just to access simple utilities. Its popularity waned, and while [...]
Windows 7 System Folders Customizer
Back in February I reviewed the Computer Customizer software which could be used to add custom folders to the My Computer display of the Windows 7 operating system. The very same developer has now released a similar but broader tool. System Folders Customizer integrates all the abilities of Computer Customizer and adds options to add [...]