Microsoft in the beginning of December launched a SkyDrive update that improved the functionality of the service significantly. One of the biggest new features is what Microsoft calls simple app-centric sharing. This basically adds easy sharing options to applications. Instead of having to leave the application they are working on and thinking about file permissions [...]
Display, Search All Open Tabs In Firefox With Tabby2
Firefox users with lots of tab open in the browser often try to find ways to improve the browser’s tab management capabilities. The core issue that they face is that part of the open tabs are hidden from view, and that it may take lots of scrolling to get there. There are built-in options to [...]
How to Find Your PST Files in Microsoft Outlook 2007 and 2010
Outlook stores your email in a PST file. PST stands for personal storage table. Outlook uses this file format to store your data including emails, contacts, calendars, etc. Depending on your settings, you may need to use your password to open them and they may or may not be encrypted. Most likely, if you did [...]
WordPress 3.3 Now Available
The developers of the popular blogging platform WordPress have released version 3.3 just a few minutes ago. WordPress 3.3 update notifications should appear right in the admin interface of the blog. Users can use the internal updater to update from within the admin interface, or by downloading the new version from the official site to [...]
File Manager XYplorer Pro Review
Windows users who think that the system’s default file management application Windows Explorer is too limited to be of practical use can pick from a wide array of free and paid products. XYplorer Pro is a professional file manager for the Windows operating system that can be used in addition or as a replacement for [...]
YouTube launches Schools Website
Those of you who follow me will know that in addition to writing here, being an author and all the other things I seem to do, that I’m also a teacher. I’ve spent the last few years teaching adult basic skills, which is helping adults with poor literacy and numeracy skills, or those without qualifications, [...]
Adblock Plus To Allow Acceptable Ads
A new version of the popular adblocking extension Adblock Plus will be released tomorrow for the Firefox web browser. Adblock Plus 2.0 is not only a huge jump in version from version 1.3.10 that is currently offered on Mozilla’s add-on repository, but offers also a fundamental change in program functionality. Back in October we ran [...]
You Have Download Tells You If You Have Download Torrents
What would you say about a service that monitors and records a huge percentage of worldwide torrent traffic and makes it available in a public database? The idea behind You Have Downloaded is fairly simple. The service monitors world wide torrent traffic and adds all information that it finds to a database. The developers of [...]
Just How Much Revenue Does Google Have Anyway?
There is an intriguing infographic that has been released showing how much revenue Google had in 2010. In typical infographic style, and you can view the whole thing below, there’s all manner of comparisons including saying that the company makes more money than the combined gross domestic product of the world’s 28 poorest countries. These [...]