One of the things that still has not been fixed or resolved in the Windows operating system is that desktop icons change their position automatically when the screen resolution changes. Most Windows users will probably never come into a situation where their desktop icon positions change, considering that most won’t change the screen resolution unless [...]
Dropbox Update With Security Enhancements
Users with the file synchronization and hosting service Dropbox running on their system needed to take good care of the authentication files of the service. These files were generated during first authentication on the system. The issue here for many users was that a third party could copy the authentication files to sync all of [...]
Sync Google Calendar With Thunderbird Lightning
Both the Thunderbird desktop email client and the Lightning calendar add-on have been recently updated. Using Lightning is not the only way of integrating Google Calendar in Thunderbird. In 2010 I reviewed the Thunderbird add-on Google Calendar Tab which integrates the service into Thunderbird by opening the Google Calendar web page in the email client. [...]
Spellchecking in Internet Explorer 10, Test It Now
You may have heard that Microsoft plans to integrate a spell checking module into their upcoming web browser Internet Explorer 10. Up until now, Internet Explorer users had to install third party software like SpeckIE (Spell Check IE) to have spell checking functionality at their disposal in the Internet browser. Users who are interested in [...]
Windows 8 Power Consumption, Battery Life
With a focus on touchscreen devices – which are predominantly mobile in nature – comes the requirement to reduce a computer system’s power consumption to increase its battery life. According to a new blog post over at the Building Windows 8 site, Microsoft has made important changes to their upcoming operating system’s power consumption. The [...]
Adobe Discontinue Flash for Mobile Devices
The world has been wondering what the next move would be in the stand-off between HTML5 and Adobe’s Flash Player. Apple has always resisted Flash on the iPhone and iPad demonstrating that it runs slowly on the Mac and citing security concerns, many of which are valid. Despite this Flash still has many fans and [...]
How To Disable The Caps Lock Key Permanently
When I was working in IT I sometimes dealt with support requests that involved the caps lock key. Users were complaining that they could not enter their password, or that they locked their account even though they were sure that they had entered the right password, or that their username was displayed in upper case [...]
GoogleLookup Discontinued
With Google Labs projects being discontinued by Google came the cancellation or transfer of popular services. One of the services that will be discontinued this November is GoogleLookup. GoogleLookup is a Google Labs technology that allows Google Docs spreadsheet users to search for and add data into their spreadsheets. Spreadsheet cells that make use of [...]
How To Use YouTube To Increase Your iTunes Song Collection
The Internet offers many different options for users to increase their song collection. Among the options are to record Internet radio with tools like Streamwriter or Stream Harvester, or to download and convert Youtube videos to do the same. This guide explains how you can increase your iTunes song collection, or your song collection in [...]