Microsoft has released a new version of Silverlight, a technology for creating interactive web and mobile applications. It is in many regards Microsoft’s answer to Adobe’s Flash technology. There have been rumors for quite some time now that Microsoft would stop Silverlight development as it was never really able to break Flash’s dominance on the [...]
Play Settlers of Catan Online [Game Saturday]
Nothing beats playing board games with a couple of friends as it is usually lots of fun. Sometimes though you fancy a game but do not have enough friends or space available to play the game locally. That’s where online games come into play. Settlers of Catan – original Die Siedler von Catan – is [...]
EXO PC Unveil the Future of Touch
A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to get the world exclusive on my personal website for EXO PC’s forthcoming EXOdesk. This is a 40-inch, 10 point multi-touch Viewsonic screen (I wasn’t allowed to say who the manufacturer was at the time) built into a piece of fine furniture and running a custom [...]
Revo Uninstaller Pro Review
Program removal under Windows is often not as thorough as it should be. It happens more often than not that program traces remain on the computer. This can be empty folders, files that the program created after installation or Registry entries. And while that’s usually nothing to worry about, it may have consequences. Among them [...]
uTorrent 3.1 Stable Now Available
If you have followed uTorrent’s development closely in past weeks you have probably asked yourself if the developers would ever stop releasing release candidate versions of uTorrent 3.1. The developers went through ten release candidate builds before they released the final version of uTorrent 3.1 yesterday. Another update was rushed on the same day to [...]
Calendar Magic, All Calendar Information You Ever Need
The Windows operating system ships with a basic calendar that’s linked to the system’s date and time settings. A click on the system clock displays the current month with options to display other months instead. But that’s all the functionality that is offered by the system calendar. If you are looking for additional information, you [...]
Yahoo! Improves Account Security With Second Sign-in Verification
More and more Internet companies are beginning to implement 2-step verification processes to counter the ever increasing attacks on customer accounts. Yahoo! is the latest company to upgrade the account security with a 2-step verification option. The new second sign-in verification feature is opt-in at this point in time, and only available to users from [...]
TweetDeck Update Brings Native PC and Mac Clients
Remember TweetDeck, the Adobe Air Twitter client that offered better faster access to all things Twitter? Adobe Air was not the only platform TweetDeck was offered on. A web based version and Google Chrome application were offered as well by the developers. TweetDeck made the list of Melanie’s Top 5 Twitter Add-ons and has been [...]
DriveScrubber Review
You may sometimes want to make sure that data on a drive is deleted permanently. Permanently in this case means that it cannot be recovered with recovery software. Many computer users do not know that the data remains on the drive even if they delete it from the recycle bin. When it is out of [...]