Testing a PCs stability makes sense in a number of situations. Maybe you have made the decision to overclock your PC and want to make sure that everything runs well and stable, or you are thinking of giving away your old PC to a friend or family member who is not the most knowledgeable person [...]

When it comes to web development tools for the Firefox web browser, Firebug is usually named at the top of everyone’s list. The program integrates well into the Firefox browser, offering tools to edit, debug or monitor outputs for web pages on the Internet and local web pages that are still in development. Firebug 1.9 [...]

When you are moving from one PC to the other, or are making use of multiple devices running Windows, you probably want to have data available on all the PCs. This can be personal files like documents or music, but also configuration settings for the Windows Firewall. If you are connecting to the Internet via [...]

Image and photo manipulation has become an art form of its own ever since computers were able to display images in decent resolutions on the screen. Professionals use tools like Adobe Photoshop to manipulate images, while you and I would probably prefer a simpler more straightforward solution. While it is possible to use a program [...]

If you have multiple email accounts set up in the desktop email client Thunderbird, you’d probably noticed that it is hard to near impossible to distinguish accounts on first glance. The core reason for this is that there is no visual distinction between accounts. Everything is displayed in the exact same color scheme with no [...]

If I had to grade my English pronunciation skills I’d probably give me a below average rating. I mainly attribute this to the fact that I do not speak English regularly. While I have most words in mind I sometimes have troubles pronouncing them correctly. Every now and then I encounter words or phrases in [...]

There are four different types of books and magazines available on Google Books. First free ebooks that can be read only or downloaded to mobile devices and as pdf or epub documents, then ebooks that are only readable online but not downloadable, then books that are listed but not readable at all, and finally commercial [...]

Sending big files over the Internet is still a big issue for many users. While it is possible to overcome those issues, it often means spending time preparing the files to do so. You could for instance pack and split the files before sending them, upload them to an ftp server or online file hosting [...]

When you sign up for a Facebook account you are asked to enter information about you including your birthday. The majority of Facebook users will probably get that right, but it can happen that you pick the wrong date either accidentally or on purpose if you do not want to reveal you true age to [...]

I had to read Microsoft’s new post at the Building Windows 8 blog twice to fully understand the Storage Spaces feature of the Windows 8 operating system. Storage Spaces is a new drive virtualization technology. It basically allows users of the Windows 8 operating system to create drive pools and virtual disks. Drive Pools combine [...]

One of the big issues that many Windows users have with Windows Explorer is that the file browser is not displaying the size and amount of files that are stored in subfolders. Why would that be important? You could for instance use the information to detect the largest folders on your system, and that both [...]

We all knew that the day would come eventually when Mozilla would pull the plug on Firefox 3.6. According to new information posted on the Firefox Extended Support page, that day will be April 24, 2012. This is directly connected to the announcement that Firefox 10 will be the company’s first Extended Support Release (ESR). [...]

Like every year around year end, Donation Coder members and guests are pledging to release new applications for the New Year. You can read up our coverage of the NANY 2011, NANY 2010 and the NANY 2009 events to get a better picture of the type of applications that have been released in the past. [...]

Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system will ship with two new recovery modes called Reset and Refresh that users and administrators can use to reset the computer to factory state or to refresh it to a “good state”. The terminology may be confusing at first. The reset option basically removes all personal data from the PC [...]

I had one of the strangest experiences ever in the past 24 hours. Yesterday evening I noticed that I was not getting any audio in Firefox. I first thought this was a hiccup and restarted the browser to see if this resolved the problem. It unfortunately did not. I then tried to play videos on [...]

Sometimes you may need to analyze only the changed files of a particular directory structure. This can be helpful to detect unauthorized file modifications for instance, files that have been updated automatically or manually recently, or project files that other team members have worked with, or to detect files that need to be updated in [...]

Not everyone is seeing the new Google header bar yet that is being rolled out currently. The new header area moves the menu items that were previously linked directly on the top of the page to a new menu that is attached to the Google logo. When you load the Google homepage you will see [...]

Creating new folders has never been easier than in Windows 7. Just use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Shift-n to create a new folder. It is automatically selected to let you change the name of the folder to a more descriptive title. It still takes multiple actions to copy files to that new folder, and while you [...]

How do I download Linux? That’s a question that I hear fairly often. It usually leads to follow-up questions, like what is a distribution, which distribution should I download or how do I install Linux on my PC. While it is possible to download a Linux distribution from a project website or developer homepage right [...]

If you need to look-up addresses quite often while your on the Internet, for instance if you are an estate agent, doing research or just planning your next holiday trip, then you have got multiple options at hand. You can for instance keep Bing Maps or Google Maps open in a new tab or browser [...]

Windows Remote Assistance is a tool that Microsoft has integrated into the Windows 7 operating system. It is in many regards similar to popular remote access applications like Teamviewer, as it allows Windows 7 users to ask someone else to take a look at their computer system over a local area network or the Internet. [...]

A new version of the popular blogging software WordPress has just been released. WordPress admins should already see update notifications in the dashboards of the blogs that they administrate. The update is also already advertised on the official WordPress website. It is as usually possible to update the blog right away from within the admin [...]

A recent redesign on Facebook has changed the look and feel of the user start page on the social networking site. Some of the changes, the ticker for instance, have mostly received negative feedback from users of the social networking sites. Many smaller more subtle changes have also been introduced in recent times. The Pokes [...]

Facebook recently rolled out a new user profile design that the company calls Timeline. These new profiles change the layout and design of user profiles fundamentally. Facebook Timeline is currently an opt-in option, which means that users need to enable the new feature to turn their profiles into timeline profiles. Users who have not changed [...]

Microsoft has improved Windows Explorer in recent versions of Windows. The ability to add custom folders and libraries to the left sidebar pane is used by many to quickly access folders that they use frequently in the operating system. Visibility is best if folders are limited to a dozen or less though, especially on systems [...]

The Firefox web browser displays a vertical or horizontal scrollbar at the right and lower edge of the browser whenever the page contents cannot be displayed all at once in the browser window. And while it is clearly visible on most web pages, users may encounter pages where the scrollbar is barely distinguishable from the [...]

Google Chrome currently does not offer options to password protect the browser, or at least user data, from local access. Someone with access to the PC can fire up the browser to access bookmarks, websites, the browsing history or cookies. It is all there in the open. Simple Startup Password attempts to change this by [...]

With the popularity of a service and an api come third party services that either use the service’s authorization system or add functionality to the service. A prime example is Facebook. Sites on the Internet may allow you to log in to the service with your Facebook credentials. This is useful as users do not [...]

The Windows operating system does not support different sensitivities for input devices. Users who work with touchpads and mice on the computer may experience issues because of this. Some users may for instance feel that the mouse cursor is moving to fast when they connect a mouse to the system. The reason is simple: Manufacturers [...]

Google Docs users have quite a few options to synchronize their online documents with local computer systems. Among them Gladinet Cloud Desktop, the Microsoft Office add-in OffiSync or DocSyncer. Insync is a new option for Mac and Windows users (and soon Linux as a Linux port is in the making) who want to synchronize their [...]