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Giganews Diamond Users Get 30 Gigabytes Of Free Storage Space

Premium Usenet provider Giganews has added several new services that are free of charge to Diamond account users in recent years. Diamond users not only get one of the fastest most complete Usenet experiences on the Internet, but also access to a virtual private network, a free Usenet browser and now also to 30 Gigabytes [...]

Author: , Tuesday December 20, 2011
Categories: The Web

Change Your Computer’s OEM Information

Computers that you buy from manufacturers contain so called OEM Information that are integrated into the operating system. This may include the manufacturer’s name, support website, logo, support phone and a unique product ID. Sometimes you may not want those information to be displayed on your computer. That’s where software like OEM Configuration come into [...]

Author: , Tuesday December 20, 2011
Categories: Software, Windows

How will we control the computers of tomorrow?

Well that’s it!  Everybody, well some of the experts anyway seem to agree that the ageing keyboard and mouse just isn’t going to cut it any more.  It’s just not a good enough way to communicate with our computers.  It’s slow and clunky, in fact the story goes that an alphabetical keyboard would be quicker to type [...]

Author: , Tuesday December 20, 2011
Categories: Misc

Google+ Gets Multi-Admin Pages, Stream Filters And More

Google is putting lots of effort into their social networking service Google+. Changes happen on a weekly basis and it is often hard to keep track of everything that gets added, modified or removed from the service. The company yesterday announced new features that improve Google+ significantly. Users who maintain Google+ pages can now add [...]

Author: , Tuesday December 20, 2011
Categories: Google

Visual Hashing, Password Reminders For Chrome And Firefox

All you see are asterisks whenever you enter passwords on the Internet. This makes it near impossible to make sure the correct password has been entered. The only indicator is the length of the password, but that works best for short passwords and not so good for larger more secure ones as it takes time [...]

Author: , Tuesday December 20, 2011
Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Firefox 11 will Synchronize Add-ons

Firefox Sync is Firefox’s synchronization feature that allows you to synchronize data such as bookmarks, passwords, open tabs and the history between multiple computer systems running Firefox. Up until now it has not been possible to synchronize add-ons using Firefox Sync. Users who wanted to use add-ons, and even more so their configuration, on multiple [...]

Author: , Tuesday December 20, 2011
Categories: Browsing, Firefox

SEO PowerSuite Review [Giveaway]

SEO is all about increasing the visibility of a website on the Internet. This is done through various means like link building or optimizing on-page elements. It is important to keep a record of everything that is done on and off the site, and to check results regularly. And while it is perfectly possible to [...]

Author: , Tuesday December 20, 2011
Categories: Software, Windows

How To Recover When Thunderbird Is Broken

Yesterday I started noticing a strange issue in the Thunderbird email client. I could open the email client as usual, and mail would be retrieved. I was also able to click on one mailbox and read the mails there. But when I tried to click on another mailbox, or another folder of the same mailbox, [...]

Author: , Tuesday December 20, 2011
Categories: Email

Firefox 9 Final Available, Get It Before Anyone Else

December 20th is the official Firefox 9 final release date. The browser has been uploaded to Mozilla’s ftp server prior to release. It is currently distributed to Mozilla’s first and third party distribution network to ensure a fast and uninterrupted distribution to Firefox 8 users. I have covered all Firefox 9 changes back when the [...]

Author: , Tuesday December 20, 2011
Categories: Browsing, Firefox

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