Adobe has synced their security release schedule with that of Microsoft. It is therefor not surprising that the company announced yesterday the availability of security updates for several of their products. Security updates were released for Adobe Shockwave Player, Flash Media Server, Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Photoshop CS5 and RoboHelp. All security issues have received [...]
GTools+, Display Google Bar On All Web Pages
If you are a heavy Google user you may like the Google bar that is displayed on top of all the Google properties. The bar links to several Google properties and displays notifications about new messages or posts on Google+. It furthermore contains a share link if Google Plus is used, and a link to [...]
Microsoft Patch Day August 2011 Overview
Microsoft yesterday evening released this month’s security patches for their software products. The 13 security bulletins fix security related issues in Microsoft products such as the Windows operating system, Microsoft Office, the .Net Framework and Internet Explorer. Two of the security bulletins have received a critical severity rating, the highest possible rating while nine have [...]
Pokki, Apps, Services, Features In Your Windows Taskbar
I held back on reviewing Pokki for a long time. That was probably not the best of ideas considering that it is one of those rare gems that you stumble upon from time to time. For now, Pokki is a free software for Windows 7 that adds information, services and features to the Windows taskbar. [...]
Free Process Traffic Monitor, Display Bandwith Utilization Of Windows Programs
How much bandwidth is my computer using up right now? How much of that is utilized by Firefox, Microsoft Outlook or another Windows process? The free Windows software Free Process Traffic Monitor offers answers to some of those questions. The program uses the freely available WinPcap which provides access to the network traffic information. The [...]
Use RamMap To List All Files Currently In Windows RAM
Have you ever wondered about the files that Windows is holding in memory? I’m not talking about the processes or applications, but the actual files that are in computer memory. This includes the list of system fonts that are loaded in memory, the dynamic link libraries or the system drivers. The free system tool RamMap [...]
Blackberry Messenger Blamed over London Riots
Blackberry has long been praised, and criticised for the security of it’s email and messaging platform. Most recently the company has faced commercial problems in some middle-eastern countries, most notable Saudi Arabia, where the authorities wanted to be able to get access to personal emails and messages for the purposes of fighting extremism (and some [...]
Yet Another Wallpaper Downloader (YAWD)
Wallpapers, love em or leave em. Some users are perfectly fine with the default wallpapers that ship with their operating system. Others add photos that they have made as they desktop background. A third group likes to download backgrounds from wallpaper repositories on the Internet for their wallpaper needs. And it is the last group [...]
Analyse The Boot And Shutdown Performance of Windows
Speed seems to be something that Microsoft intends to improve further in Windows 8. Especially the boot performance will be noticeably faster, according to reports. While I cannot really say if that is true or not, considering that there are no official versions of the operating system available, I can show you how you can [...]