Google in a somewhat surprising move announced that they will discontinue development of the Google Toolbar for the Firefox web browser. Taking effect immediately, the company notes that the Google Toolbar will not be supported on Firefox 5 and future versions. The change has no effect on the current toolbar offered for the browser which [...]
Thunderbird 6 Beta Released, New Logos Upcoming
Mozilla has released the first beta version of the upcoming Thunderbird 6 email desktop client. As you may know, Mozilla has moved Firefox to a rapid release process some time ago. This basically meant an accelerated development process with new versions of the browser every 18 weeks. Soon thereafter, the developers decided to move Thunderbird [...]
Stunnel – How to use Gmail With Older Software
With over 200 million users, Google Mail, or Gmail, is one of the most used email systems in the world today. Even companies are getting in on the act by moving their email infrastructure to Google Apps, which gives them all the benefits of Google and the convenience of using a custom domain. With a [...]
Apple to pioneer USB Drive Software
I’vee been waiting patiently for this moment for years and it comes as no surprise to me that it’s Apple leading innovation in the software sales market. The company launched their new OS X Lion operating system update as a download through the new Mac App Store. What they also announced however was that this [...]
A Short List Of Handy Free Microsoft Outlook Downloads
While I’m a Thunderbird user at heart, I run Microsoft Outlook as well on all of my computer systems. I have tested and worked with dozens of third party Outlook tools over the past years of which a few have proven to be very useful. This article offers a short but handy list of Microsoft [...]
Find Out Where A Website Is Hosted
I just bought an expensive domain and website, and would like to share one of the things that I did to verify the seller’s legitimacy. Among other things, I check a website’s whois information and hosting information to make sure they match with the information in the sales letter. If they do not match, or [...]
Google+ Notifier For The Windows Desktop
Google+ here, Google+ there. Google’s social networking service is still going strong despite the falling momentum. We have seen lots of tools, mostly browser extensions, released in the last couple weeks. Helpful for Google Plus users who need more control over the service. The one that I like most is the Google Tweaks userscript as [...]
Desktop T-Shirt Creator
If you’re looking for a quick and easy way to create your own t-shirt designs, you could do worse than trying out Desktop T-shirt Creator from Uzoom. It’s designed to make creating t-shirt designs fun and easy. You can use any image you like on your t-shirts, and the software even comes with a large [...]
Free Burning Studio, Disc Burning Software For Windows
My first CD burning software back in the Windows 95 days was Nero’s Burning Rom, a fast, elegant and lightweight program. Things have changed considerably since then and Nero is no longer the program that I use for disc burning. The weapon of choice so to speak is ImgBurn, which is a great program, best [...]