The default web browser options to save photos from websites on the Internet are fine if only a few images need to be saved. It quickly becomes a burden if the image count reaches two digits and more or less impracticable when it reaches three and more. That’s where image downloaders come into play which automate the downloading of images from Internet sites. The downloaders come in the form of browser plugins or standalone applications.

Image Ripper is a standalone application that supports batch photo downloads from several Chinese photo hosting sites. It currently supports downloading images from the following image hosting sites:

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Tags: download photos, image ripper, image software, images, photo downloader, photos, windows software
Categories: Windows, software

Have you ever started your laptop in a crowded area and felt embarrassed because of the loud startup sound that it played once it loaded the operating system? Some PC users turn off all system sounds to avoid this problem while others do not want to work without those sounds and have to rely on other methods to mute the computer on system startup.

Auto Mute is a small software program that can aid users who want to work with computer sounds and a silent startup.

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Tags: auto mute, laptop, mute laptop, startup sounds, windows software, windows startup
Categories: Windows, software

Backups should play an essential part in disaster recovery strategies. They are a last resort when all attempts to recover data have failed. There are lots of options to create backups in the Windows operating system. Users who have never come into contact with backup software before might find the windows backup software over
view that we have created some time ago helpful.

Feebes Backup is a lightweight Windows backup software that comes with several advanced options that can make it an interesting backup alternative to some users.

Backups are handled in jobs which can be configured individually. They are least consist of a source and target file. The first difference to many other backup applications becomes obvious in this configuration menu.

Feebes Backup can not only backup local files but also files on ftp servers and Amazon S3. These locations can also be used as the target location for the backups. The software therefor supports both local and remote backups.

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Tags: backup software, feebees backup, windows backup software, windows software
Categories: Operating Systems, Windows, software

Recent Firefox versions have an option to display thumbnails for all open tabs when the user clicks on a button in the Firefox tabbar. A comparable option is not available in the Google Chrome web browser by default but the Chrome extension Tabs Plus changes that.

Tabs Plus adds a variety of features to the Chrome browser with thumbnail previews of open tabs being only one of them. The tab preview feature is available by clicking on the icon of the extension in the Chrome address bar after installation.

It seems that the preview thumbnails only work on http site and not https sites.

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Tags: google chrome, google chrome extension, google chrome tabs, tabs manager, tabs plus
Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

A critical security vulnerability in the Firefox web browser has been patched by the Mozilla developers and will be made available on March 30 with the release of Firefox 3.6.2. The vulnerability, which received a critical rating from the Mozilla developers and third parties like Secunia could result in remote code execution.

The security vulnerability was discovered in February by Russian security researchers who did not communicate directly with the Mozilla development team. This was the main reason for the long patch development.

The patch has already been included in beta versions of Firefox 3.6.2 which currently undergo quality assurance tests before the final release.

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Tags: firefox, firefox 3.6, firefox 3.6.2, firefox security, firefox-update, mozilla-firefox
Categories: Browsing, firefox

A Mozilla developer preview of Gecko 1.9.3 has been released. The release comes in the form of a nightly build of Firefox 3.7 alpha 3. The new build introduces several new features including an experimental Direct 2D for the Windows builds of Firefox, JavaScript api improvements, stability and security improvements as well as additional fixes for multi-process plugins.

This comes in addition to changes that have been introduced in the alpha 1 and alpha 2 releases of Firefox 3.7. Interested users can take a look at the release notes of the new Firefox development release for a complete overview of all changes that have been made in all Firefox 3.7 alpha versions.

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Tags: firefox, firefox 3.7, firefox alpha, firefox-update, mozilla-firefox
Categories: Browsing, firefox

If you work with anonymous web proxies you will encounter proxies that are not working at that time. That is a big problem if a huge amount of proxies are needed on a regular basis. It is possible to check them all manually which would however take a long time.

Proxy Checkers on the other hand can automate the process so that the proxies can be verified in a fraction of the site that a manual process would take.

The Free Web Proxy Checker has been specifically designed to test so called web proxies. A web proxy usually consists of a form on a website that a user can use to access another website from. This is different from standard proxy servers that need to be added to a program’s proxy settings before they can be used.

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Tags: proxy, proxy checker, web proxy, web proxy checker, windows software
Categories: Windows, software

The Google Chrome web browser was the last of the popular web browsers to get Windows 7 taskbar previews, a feature that displays open tabs of the web browser in the Windows 7 Taskbar. It is from there possible to directly access the open tabs.

Not all Internet users that use Windows 7 on the other hand like the tab preview feature, especially those who regularly open many tabs in the web browser at once. The number of thumbnails are limited based on the screen resolution of the computer monitor.

Once a certain threshold is reached the thumbnail previews will be changed to a list mode which eventually will make use of a scrollbar to display all open tabs on the screen.

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Tags: aero peek, firefox, google chrome, internet-explorer, opera, taskbar previews, taskbar thumbnails
Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, firefox, opera