Sometimes you may need to create a quick chart without access to a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice Calc. You could say that installing the spreadsheet program would resolve the issue. But that’s only possible if you are working on a computer where you have sufficient rights to do that. And that’s [...]
Opera 64-bit, and Out-of-process Plugins Now Available For Testing
Opera Software, as a Christmas present to their user base, has released an experimental Opera Labs build of Opera for all supported operating systems that adds two significant features to the web browser. You have probably heard about out-of-process plugins before. Chrome and Firefox are using the technology to split the core browser process from [...]
Identity Finder Premium Review
Do you know how many personal information you have stored on your computer? And where? Most PCs are filled with documents and emails that may contain information like credit card numbers, social security IDs, passwords, email addresses or scanned certificates that are all there in plain sight and accessible by anyone looking for them. The [...]
Microsoft To Push Latest Internet Explorer Via Silent Updates Next Year
One of the core issues that Microsoft is facing in the browser-war is that many users of the Internet Explorer browser are not updating the web browser. If you look at the browser’s market share, you will notice that users are still working with Internet Explorer 6, 7 or 8 and not the latest version [...]
How To Store More Files On Dropbox Than Your Ratio Allows
I have been using the cloud storage and file synchronization service Dropbox more frequently lately. You can read more about that here and here. You probably know that Dropbox keeps track of all file changes automatically, with options to restore a previous version of the file. While looking at that I noticed that it is [...]
SlimCleaner 2.0 Now Available
The developers of the system maintenance tool SlimCleaner have released a new version of the program. Our last review dates back to last year, reason enough to take another look at the program. Back then we liked the cloud based community rating system that made it a lot easier to distinguish between applications in good [...]
Facebook Timeline Profiles Now Available To All Users
Timeline is the name of the new Facebook user profile that was previously only available to beta testers and developers. Interested users can now activate Timeline for their profile on this page before everyone else gets a notification that it is now available to all users. It is not clear yet if all Facebook profiles [...]
Setting up and Configuring a New PC, Free eBook
With Christmas only ten days away you might well be lucky enough to receive a new PC or laptop as a present, or you may be giving one as a gift. New computers are fantastic, exciting, invigorating and more. That is once you get past the trial software, the excess software bloat, the slowdowns, the [...]
Password Improvements Coming To Windows 8
When I first read that Microsoft made the decision to improve Windows 8′s credentials feature I was all excited about it. Who would not want a built-in password manager that would be tied automatically to the user account of the system? But as I read on I noticed that the improvements are rather limited. Lets [...]