Microsoft’s attempt to establish an alternative user interface in the upcoming operating system Windows 8 has received praise and criticism. Many believe that it will be offered in addition to the existing interface, and mainly for touch-based devices. What we know is that users of current Windows systems will not be able to get their [...]
Chrome’s New Tab Page Redesigned, Now Paged
Just spotted a change to the new tab page in the Google Chrome browser. The change is life in the latest Google Chrome Dev build, and I’m not 100% sure when it was first introduced (meaning it could be older than today, but I failed to spot it). Previously when you’ve opened a new tab [...]
Castaway Island TD [Game Saturday]
I love playing Tower Defense games, especially in Warcraft 3 The Frozen Throne, but also on Flash game sites on Internet websites. Castaway Island TD is a rather unique breed of Tower Defense games, as it combines an adventure like experience with tower defense gaming. The game is a spin-off of the highly popular Castaway [...]
Why are we still waiting for affordable laptops / netbooks / tablets for schools?
The mobile computing market changed forever a few years ago with the introduction of the netbook. Finally a small, reasonably lightweight personal computer that could be carried by anybody. Then the technology companies brought us a new breed of powerful ultraportables and finally tablets. One thing to note though is that prices haven’t changed much, [...]
New York Times: Fake Reviews A Growing Trend
Back in 2010 I wrote a piece about reviews on software download sites. In it I discovered that some developers manipulated the public perception of their program by adding fake reviews, usually in the form of a five-star rating for their programs. The problem here was that some developers went overboard with the fake reviews [...]
How to add a Sleep Timer to Windows Media Center
This one is for the media buffs who want a new level of automation for Windows Media Center. It may be that you fall asleep while streaming video or music at the end of the day and the media keeps running until at some point during your slumber you are awakened by gunshots from an [...]
Apple tries to ban Samsung, is “Patent Tennis” going too far?
If you ever wondered who Apple consider its biggest rival the answer probably lies in the dutch judicial system with an injunction the company has brought against Samsung. In the documents reported on today by Cnet, Apple is trying to ban, so it would seem, every Samsung smartphone and tablet product including the Galaxy Ace, [...]
Firefox 8 Aurora Released, What’s New?
Mozilla has just officially released the first version of Firefox 8 Aurora. Firefox 8 will reach beta stage in about six weeks and a stable release in twelve weeks. We already mentioned earlier this month that Firefox 8 will ship with a new add-on compatibility assistant that is giving users more add-on control the first [...]
QuickPop, Lightweight Application Launcher
Most of the applications that I start regularly are pinned to the taskbar of my Windows 7 system. Some on the other hand are not pinned there. This includes the image editor Paint.net, the text editor Notepad++ or the Bittorrent client uTorrent among others. I’m not pinning those applications because I either do not run [...]