I do not like the concept of permanent window transparency at all, as I feel that it makes it a lot harder to interact with the open windows on the operating system. See Through Windows is a brand new application for Windows that adds a twist to window transparency. Instead of making windows transparent all [...]
Google Launches Panda Algorithm For Additional Languages
Google launched a new search engine algorithm earlier this year that they internally called the Panda update. The idea behind Panda was to introduce a quality variable into the ranking equation. Sites with good quality contents would see an increase, sites with low level quality or article farms would see a decrease. That worked so-so [...]
MOBZHunt, Find The Largest Folders On Your Windows System
One of the things that I really think is missing from Windows is the ability to display folder sizes. A folder size in this case is the size of all the files and folders that are stored inside a root folder. While you can get that information if you load the folder properties in Windows [...]
Firefox 8 With New Add-On Compatibility Checks
Good news for Firefox users who think that the current add-on compatibility assistant during browser updates is not giving them enough control over their add-ons. Mozilla has uploaded a test nightly build to the official ftp server that demonstrates a new add-on compatibility check that gives users full process control. Firefox still runs a compatibility [...]
The Importance of Binary Numbers in Computing
Binary numbers consist of only two digits, 0 and 1. This seems very inefficient and simple for us humans who are used to working in base 10, but for a computer base 2, or binary, is the perfect numbering system. This is because all calculations in a computer are based on millions of transistors that [...]
Google Announces Games In Google+
It was only a matter of time before Google started rolling out everyone’s favorite pastime on Facebook: Games. Games in Google are gradually rolled out to all users. Those who have access to them see a new icon next to their stream buttons at the very top of the Google+ website. Those who do not [...]
Is the era of the PC over?
PCs are going the way of typewriters according to an engineer who worked on the original IBM PC. In a blog post to mark the 30th anniversary of the IBM PC 5150, Dr Mark Dean made the comments, saying that PCs were no longer at the leading edge of computing. Pointing out that no single [...]
TeamSpeak 3 Final Released, Android, iOS Versions
I cannot really recall when I first started using TeamSpeak to communicate with my mates in the evening. Must have been around the time when Unreal Tournament was actively played by hundreds of thousands of players. Despite some competing products, like Ventrilo, Skype or BC it was TeamSpeak that I kept using throughout the years. [...]
Fix Random Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Freezes
A issue has been confirmed recently by Microsoft that is impacting users of the Windows 7 client operating system and users of the Windows Server 2008 R2 server operating systems even with the latest service pack releases installed. Some customers running those operating system versions have reported that their systems stop responding randomly. Microsoft has [...]