Adobe yesterday evening released a security patch for Adobe Flash Player that fixes several critical security vulnerabilities. Affected are all versions of Adobe Flash Player 10.3.183.7 and earlier for all supported operating systems (Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Solaris) as well as Adobe Flash Player 10.3.186.6 and earlier for the Android operating system. According to Adobe, attackers [...]
Facebook Side Ticker Remover, Hide Facebook Ticker
I have to admit that I’m not a huge fan of the Facebook sidebar ticker that is now displaying on every page on the social networking site. The ticker displays the latest activities of friends on Facebook. The annoying thing about it is that it updates in real-time, which means that you see constant movement [...]
Types of Wi-Fi Encryption You Can Use
There are many types of Wi-Fi encryption you can use on modern Internet routers. So which one should you use? Many people don’t even use encryption, and those that do just pick an encryption type at random without knowing what they do. Most encryption types are better than nothing at all, but some are more [...]
Bing Now Suggests Top Actions For Some Searches
Bing just like Google may display sitelinks or authority links underneath the first search result for a certain query. Google recently gave those sitelinks more room which I criticized for being to large for what little value they add to the search results page. Bing basically stayed with the initial design that displays a list [...]
Firefox History Disable Button, Private Browsing Mode Lite
Firefox’s private browsing mode is handy in cases where you do not want to leave a record of your browsing activities on a computer. Firefox does not record information like the visited pages, form and search bar entries or downloads during private browsing mode. Sometimes though you do not want to switch to private browsing [...]
Make Firefox Start Faster On Windows
Back in January we reported that Mozilla Firefox would get faster startup times on Windows. The patch, proposed when Firefox 4 was still in beta, has been implemented in Firefox 7, which is currently available as a beta version for all supported operating systems. Without repeating what has already been said, the patch basically preloads [...]
How To Crop Videos With Free Software
I record game videos every now and then to upload them to the YouTube channel of one of my pet-project websites. I used to use Fraps for that in the beginning, but have switched in past months to the excellent MSI Afterburner which started supporting screen video recording in the latest beta versions. Both programs [...]
Facebook Introduces Top Stories From The Last Day
If you are not visiting Facebook on a daily basis, you may have had to read a lot of news stories that had accumulated in recent times. Facebook then did not sort the stories on your homepage which meant that you had to go through everything to find the news that were interesting to you. [...]
Windows 8: What I Think Microsoft Is Missing
You have probably read a good dozen or even more Windows 8 related articles in the past week. With the release of the developer preview came a huge increase in articles and guides about Microsoft’s new operating system. Microsoft do their part by releasing new articles on the Building Windows 8 blog regularly. Plus, they [...]