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Ghacks November 2011 Best Of

Martin Brinkmann — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:20:10 +0000

Another month has passed and it is time to look back at the top stories that we have published here on Ghacks Technology News in November 2011.

A lot has happened in that month. Google has added pages to their social networking service Google+, called Google+ Pages, and Ghacks has its own. Feel free to add add the channel to your circle. Check out how to addprofile banners if you want to create a profile banner for your page on Google+ as well.

Google continued with the redesign of core properties such as Youtube and released a new Google header layout.

The company added a Verbatim Search option to Google Search which ensures that results are returned for the user query and not for Google’s interpretation thereof. Check out the userscript Gooverbatim to access Google Verbatim directly.

Not everything was golden in November in regards to Google. The company continued to retire products like Google Buzz, Google Wave and Gears, and started to display advertisement in the Chrome browser.

Mozilla has released the web browser Firefox 8 and the email client Thunderbird 8, and shortly thereafter an update to Firefox 8.0.1 to fix stability issues in the browser.

The company furthermore released the final version of Mozilla Profile Manager, and revealed intentions to speed up Firefox’s update process and memory efficiency.

Microsoft made available the fourth preview of Internet Explorer 10 to Windows 8 users. The company saw the browser’s market share drop to below 50%.

The Redmond company published the biannual Security Intelligence Report that showed a much higher Windows XP infection rate. A leaked (unconfirmed) roadmap revealed Windows 8 and windows 9 release dates

Adobe discontinued Flash for mobile devices and announced that Flash Player 11.2 would include an automatic update feature.

Software, Tutorials and Misc News

A new version of the Lightning Calendar add-on for Thunderbird was released. Look at this guide if you want to sync Google Calendar with Thunderbird Lightning.

Handy browser add-ons and userscripts have been released or updated in November 2011. Among them ScriptNo and Ghost Incognito for the Google Chrome browser. The first is a NoScript port to Google’s browser, the second offers to run specific websites automatically in the browser’s private browsing mode.

Firefox users can make use of Wallflower to block social media buttons on the web to speed up their web surfing and increase their privacy, and of Low Quality Flash to improve Flash media frames per second on low performance systems.

Sky History manager, TeamViewer 7, Game Downloader, BlueStacks, to run Android apps on Windows and the Last.FM, Aupeo & Vkontakte.ru Downloader were some of the popular new releases or updates for Windows in November.

We have published many tutorials and how to articles in November. This included instructions on how to clear the YouTube viewing history, how to remove What’s hot on Google+, how to restore Firefox bookmarks, turn off automatic add-on updates in Firefox and how to disable caps lock permanently.

Did we miss a story or article that you really liked? Please tell us how you like the new best of article format.

Ghacks October 2011 Best Of

Martin Brinkmann — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 08:37:58 +0000

Another month has passed rather quickly. Below you find a personal selection of articles, reviews and tutorials that have been published on Ghacks Technology News in October 2011.

We had some announcements of our own to share in October. Ghacks turned six in the month, and in that time span we have been published more than 11,500 articles on the site. I also announced the 4th Annual Ghacks Christmas Giveaway asking everyone to chime in and post their favorite software that they would like to win a copy of (It is still open by the way).

The layout of this best of list has been redesigned a bit. I decided to put everything into the four categories browser, How-Tos and Tutorials, Windows and Microsoft, and Online and The Internet.

Browser

Mozilla and Google are still pushing out new versions like crazy which is still something that I do not feel particularly happy about. I took a look at Firefox 9 and Opera 12 in October.

Chrome Remote Desktop Beta Extension

Configure Firefox To Install Add-Ons Faster

Firefox, Thunderbird Lagging? Lag Fix Inside

Mozilla Talks Silent Updates, Plans Firefox Service

ProxTube Unblock YouTube Videos

Uninstall Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 Completely

Why are Two Flash Player Plugins Running In Google Chrome?

Why Are 2 Plugin-Container.Exe Processes Running?

How-Tos, Tutorials

Most of the how-tos and tutorials have been browser or Windows related this month. Not many left to share in this category.

How to maintain a good security and backup strategy, Part 1 – the Home

Speed Up Dropbox Download Speeds

Microsoft Windows

News and reviews about Windows and Microsoft have always been strong here on Ghacks. This month has not seen a big announcement or news, other than Microsoft closing the Skype acquisition.

Copy CMD Output Directly To The Clipboard

DNS Benchmark, Speed Test DNS Servers

Free Fake Antivirus Removal Software Updated

Microsoft Patch Day October 2011 Overview

Microsoft Retires Gadgets In Preparation Of Windows 8 Launch

SSD Fresh, Optimize Windows For SSD Usage

Virtual WiFi Router For Windows

Windows Password Resetter, Restore or Reset A Windows Account Pass

Why Are There Two Explorer.exe Processes Running?

Online, The Internet

Here is a selection of Internet related topics that we have covered in October on Ghacks.

Amazon Filler Item Services

Google Rolls Out Https Search For Logged In Users (see also: Google Redirects Your Search To Https? Change It!)

How To Outsource Assignments, Tasks To Free Up Time

Speed Up WordPress Page Loading Times By Removing l10n.js

Where Are Google Search Cached And Similar Links?

If you look back, what were your highlights of October 2011?

Ghacks September 2011 Best Of

Martin Brinkmann — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 07:24:49 +0000

The months are flying by, it seems. September 2011 has been an exciting month. Microsoft released a developer preview of their upcoming operating system Windows 8. I have added a Windows 8 category in this roundup so that you can read up in case you missed the launch hype. Coverage will slow down now until Microsoft pushes out the first public beta of the operating system. I expect the beta to be revealed in January 2012.

Mozilla at the same time continued their rapid release process and released the stable version of Firefox 7, and shortly thereafter Firefox 7.0.1 (the same happened for Thunderbird where version 7.0 and 7.0.1 were released).

Mike’s first videos went live on Microsoft’s official support web site, which we want to congratulate him for.

We have published a total of 195 articles in September, which is 6.5 articles per day. The most popular article with 68 comments was “What I do not like about Windows 8″ followed by “How to install Windows 8 from USB key” with 61 comments and “XSUsenet, Free Lifetime Usenet Access” with 61 comments as well.

There were quite a few articles with 0 comments, including a review of Nirsoft’s WebCookiesSniffer, a Team Fortress 2 review and news about the Facebook Subscribe button. I’d like to hear your opinion on this.

Hardware

Only one review this time, would love to do more though.

Dell Precision M6600 Workstation Laptop Review

How-Tos, Tutorials

Tutorials and how-to articles have always seen a strong showing here at Ghacks, and it is my intention to continue with that.

Bitlocker, a Guide for the Uninitiated

Dealing with Protected PDF Documents and Batch Document Conversion

How To Check Your Computer’s Ram For Upgrade Possibilities

How to Create a Flow Chart in Microsoft Word

How To Extract Images Or Text From PDF Documents

The complete guide to Windows 7 Shortcut Keys

Use Dapper To Create RSS Feeds From Any Page, Including Google Plus Posts

Software

Some great programs have been released or updated in September 2011. You find a selection below.

AVG Anti-Virus Free 2012

Free Ringtone Maker

IObit Uninstaller 2.0, Windows Program Uninstaller

Microsoft Mouse Without Borders, Control Multiple PCs With One Mouse

NetworkTrafficView, Network Monitoring, Statistics Tool

Network Planning, Mapping Software PrimeDesktop

Repair Internet Connection Issues With Connectivity Fixer

Wireless Connection and Diagnostic Tool TekWiFi

Web Browser

The majority of browser related items are Firefox related, which can mostly be attributed to the fact that I use the browser as my main Internet browser.

Customize Shortcuts, Firefox Keyconfig Alternative

Delete Old Extension Preferences In Firefox

Firefox: Add HTTP Back To Address Bar

How To Install Google Chrome For Multiple User Accounts

How to Run Portable Google Chrome from a USB Flash Drive

IPvFox, Display All Connections A Web Page Makes

Make Firefox Start Faster On Windows

ShareMeNot, Block Automatic Social Media Button Information Sharing

Windows 8

Lots of Windows 8 articles. You find even more at our sister site Windows 8 News.

5 Things I Love About Windows 8

How To Install Windows 8 From USB Key

What I Do Not Like About Windows 8

Windows 8 Download, Developer Preview

Windows 8 Fast Startup, Faster Boot Times

Windows 8, How To Automatically Log On

Windows 8 Product Key, When Resetting, Reinstalling

Windows 8 Sign-In With A Windows Live ID

Windows 8 unveiled with a focus on Metro

Think we missed something this month? Let me know in the comments.

Ghacks July 2011 Best Of

Martin Brinkmann — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 09:09:11 +0000

July 2011 was the first month were I realized that it has become incredibly difficulty to keep track of browser releases from the top four or five developers. I could not possibly write about every beta, aurora, nightly, dev, canary or snapshot build out there and made the decision to reduce the coverage to the following: I review stable versions and versions that introduce new and exciting features.

It is especially frustrating at the moment to keep track of the development of the Firefox browser. More so than it is with Google’s Chrome, as Mozilla supports older versions of the browser which Google does not. So what’s in store for us in August? We will see Firefox 3.6.20, Firefox 6, Firefox 7 Beta 1 and Firefox 8 Aurora all released on August 16. That’s five releases on one day.

Lets look back at July. I received flak from some readers (who commented once and never came back) for my mini web investment series (why website investments are better than stock market investments and 8 essential tips for web investors).

Global news were dominated by Google Plus and Facebook. Facebook introduced video calling and group chat in July, and Google unlimited photo hosting on Picasa.

We have seen Java 7 released, read an analysis that banks were the best approach to hinder the operation of scammers and spammers on the Internet, and that Microsoft would unveil Windows 8 in September.

Hardware

We do not do lots of hardware reviews here. This can be largely attributed to the fact that we do not get a lot of review samples. Mike got two from Samsung last month, and my review of the wireless headset was based on my own purchase.

Misc

Misc is a compilation of tutorials, how to and other stories that do not fit into another category.

Security and Privacy

We have published lots of security related reviews, tips and tutorials here on Ghacks in July. This includes software tips and reviews but also best practices and security related news.

Software

We have not seen that many software releases in July 2011. Some reviews have been listed under security and privacy, the remaining are accessible below.

Web Browsing

Lots of news in this category. Google announced the retirement of the Google Toolbar for Firefox, Opera released the first Opera 12 snapshot and Mozilla announced major memory improvements for Firefox.

Googlebar, Google Toolbar Alternative for Firefox

Firefox Plumber, Drop Firefox Memory Usage

Opera Releases First Opera 12 Snapshot

Mozilla Firefox Gets Major Memory Improvements

Toolbar Cleaner, Remove Unwanted Toolbars From Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer

Did I miss a story? Let me know in the comments

Ghacks June 2011 Best Of

Martin Brinkmann — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 08:38:52 +0000

We successfully made it into the second half of the year 2011. We have seen lots of change in that half, from Google’s Panda search engine update to new and improved features, tools and services. June was no different with the introduction of Google+, Google’s Facebook contender that in many regards looks like a copy with clever feature additions. Google earlier that month rolled out an update for Google Image Search, which now has reverse image searching capabilities (see 10 uses for Google Search by Images).

Apple got their iCloud up and running, and Microsoft published the first official Windows 8 video.

Mozilla got their rapid release development cycle in full swing and released Firefox 5, Thunderbird 5 and Seamonkey 2.1. Oh, and uTorrent 3 and Opera 11.50 were released as well in June.

When I look at Ghacks I see that all authors posted a total of 210 articles in June, that’s more than six articles per day. It will drop a bit in July though, but we write as many as necessary especially if a great new product comes out.

Browser

We reviewed the usual assortment of tips and extensions. We try our best to include all browsers as best as we can, and I think we did a good job in the last month. Probably the biggest stories were the releases of Firefox 5, Opera 10.5 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 Preview 2. Especially Mozilla received some flak this month both for their rapid release cycle as well as for removing the http protocol from the browser.

5 Google Chrome Tips

Firefox Preferences Cleaner, Remove Add-On Preferences On Uninstallation

Microsoft Pushes Out Second Internet Explorer 10 Preview

Mozilla: Firefox 5 Release Means EOL For Firefox 4

Opera Speed Dial Extensions Overview

Super iGoogle, Optimize iGoogle’s Layout To Save Space

The Best Firefox Privacy Add-Ons

Reviews

Mike was the only author to review some hardware here on Ghacks. We’d love to review more but it is up to the companies to provide us with samples (hint).

Acer Iconia Tab W500 Windows 7 Tablet Review

Samsung Series 9 Ultraportable Review… Part 1

Samsung Series 9 Ultraportable Review… Part 2

Online

Lots of movement in the online world. Google+ launched as well as Office 365. Will be interesting to see if Facebook’s upcoming announcement will be able to drop Google’s momentum.

Disable Automatic Photo Tagging Suggestions On Facebook

How To Change Your Primary Facebook Email Address

Make a Hidden Windows Dropbox Folder

Microsoft Updates SkyDrive, Faster, Better, With HTML5 Support

Should You Get A Virtual Credit Card For Online Purchases?

Tutorials

We have posted more tutorials than usually on Ghacks.

An Introduction to IPv6

Backup And Restore Windows Activation

Change Google’s Black Navbar Back To White

Cleaning the Inside of a Computer

Downloading Software From Third Party Sites Makes Sense, Sometimes

Google Takeout, Export Google Data

How To Backup Steam Games

How To Fix Slow Folders In Windows Explorer

How To Merge Avi Movies With VirtualDub

Trimming the Fat in Notepad++

Use Google Docs Like an Admin

Windows

Except for the Windows 8 video, there was not a lot in terms of news. We made up for it with dozens of software reviews.

3 Options To Analyze Past Computer Usage

AppCleaner, Temporary File Cleaner From The Makers Of UpdateStar

Auto Hide Icons On The Windows Desktop

Beware: Avira Partners With Ask And UniBlue

Close All Windows At Once

Hosts File Software Overview

Liquesce, Windows Drive Pooling Software

MakeMKV, Rip DVD, Blu-Ray Discs To Your Computer

Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 1 Released

Sort Photos With Image Sorter

The 10 Advantages of Xplorer2

Verdict

June was a busy month. Did we miss something? Let us know in the comments.

Ghacks May 2011 Best Of

Martin Brinkmann — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 08:38:24 +0000

Another month has passed and it is time for the monthly overview of my personal selection of the best articles that have been published on Ghacks in that month. I have made the decision to limit the article links to 25 links tops. This forces me to make a better selection and ensures that only the best articles will be mentioned in the overview.

May was a month where we have seen many hacks and attempts. The popular online password management service Last Pass/a> for instance was rumored to have been hacked. You can read about my response to this incident here. A security company allegedly managed to bypass Chrome’s sandbox which Google later refuted saying that they used a plugin vulnerability to do so.

May was also the month where Mike gave away his Windows 7 Power Users Guide ebook for free, Facebook introduced Facebook Send and teamed up with Web of Trust, Google it’s new music streaming service Google Music (at least for US users) and smartphone payment system Google eWallet, and Adobe Flash 10.3 was released. The new version of Flash allows the deletion of Flash cookies from within the web browser, provided that the browser supports this feature. At the time of writing, both Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 9 do.

Browser

When you look at web browsers, you will notice that developers are still striving to remove or reduce user interface elements from their browsers. Some of the latest elements have been the address bar and the scroll bar. Accelerated Firefox development is now in full swing, with Firefox 5 expected to be released June 21.

Block Firefox From Re-enabling Disabled Plugins

Firefox 5 Beta Is Here, What’s New?

The Best Firefox Security Add-Ons

Ryan’s Network Troubleshooting

Ryan’s network troubleshooting series covers the basic commands ping, ipconfig, tracert and pathping which every computer user should have heard of at least. They can be very helpful in analyzing connectivity problems.

Network Troubleshooting Basics: The Ping Command

Network Troubleshooting Basics: The Ipconfig Command

Network Troubleshooting Basics: Tracert & Pathping

Network Troubleshooting Basics: Some Simple Steps

Software

We have not seen many software updates in May. The two pdf readers Foxit Reader and Sumatra have been updated.

Filmotech, Comfortable Movie Collection Management Software

HWiNFO32, Computer Hardware Information Software

Universal USB Installer, Install, Run Linux From USB

WhatIsHang Tells You Why A Windows Program Is Not Responding

YouTube Playlist, Favorites, Channel, User, Responses Downloader

If you look back, what does your best of look like? Let us know in the comments.

Ghacks April 2011 Best Of

Martin Brinkmann — Mon, 02 May 2011 08:19:58 +0000

Another month has passed and it is time for a new best of guide to last month’s articles here on Ghacks. April was the month that the popular technology news site Download Squad was shut down by AOL, along with dozens of other web blogs owned by the company. It was also the month that Delicious was sold by Yahoo, Google announced to close down Google Video and a huge amount of Windows 8 information appeared on the web thanks to two leaked copies of the operating system.

Ashampoo and Sony were hacked in April, and Google Chrome became the first browser to integrate the cleaning of Flash cookies.

It was also the month where I started to write the Discovering Opera series to review core Opera browser features, and re-introduced Game Saturday.

I have reviewed a new batch of Firefox add-ons and tips and Mike visited Microsoft’s UK Headquarters.

Firefox 4.0.1, Thunderbird 3.1.10, Opera 11.10 and Google Chrome 11 Stable were released this month, as well as updates to Adobe Flash and Adobe Reader which once again were plagued by 0-day vulnerabilities.

Hardware

Building A Custom PC 2011 Part 1: The Assessment

Logitech Illuminated Keyboards Review

Toshiba Self-Encrypting Hard Drives With Host Authorization

Security, Privacy

Dropbox Insecure?

Encrypt Your Windows Pagefile To Improve Security

Have You Read the Fine Print for the Amazon Cloud Drive?

How Web Accounts Get Hacked

Lastpass Security Challenge , Test Your Last Pass Passwords

Microsoft April 2011 Patch Day Overview

Microsoft Safety Scanner, Free On-Demand Virus Scanner

Storing Data In The Cloud With Dropbox And TrueCrypt

What To Do When Your Email Account is Compromised

Social Networking

A Brief Guide on Privacy Settings for Facebook

How To Hide From Friends On Facebook Chat

Manage Third Party Access To Google, Twitter, Facebook And Dropbox

Tips, Tricks, Guides

Download Free Music Legally, An Updated Guide

Find Big Emails In Gmail

How To Send An Executable File Via Gmail

How To Search Multiple PDF Documents At Once

Thunderbird Send Later, Schedule Emails

The Web

Google Mail, How To Fix Gmail Attachment Failed Errors

Office 365 Public Beta Begins, Sign-Up Now

YouTube Goes Live!

Web Browser

Chrome Gets Per-Site Permissions to Run Quicktime, Java Plugins

How To Clear A Browser Cache

How To Delete Cookies On A Computer

How To Switch Firefox Update Channels

Internet Explorer 10 Will Not Support Vista, XP

Mozilla Development Specifics Updated, Firefox 5 and 6 Release Dates

Windows

AVG LiveKive Online Backup Service Launches

How To Update Hardware Drivers In Windows

Martview, Best Ebook Reader For PDF E-Books

Streamwriter, Record Internet Radio Stations

Windows Context Menu Manager

You can access all of April’s articles by following this link. Hope you enjoyed the summary, if you have suggestions on how to improve this summary let me know in the comments.

Ghacks March 2011 Best Of

Martin Brinkmann — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 09:21:00 +0000

I know I’m a day early with the guide to last month’s best articles. Every month I’m looking back at the articles that we have published here on Ghacks; I evaluate them, check some stats and post the most popular articles and a personal selection in a best of overview. I usually post the overview on the first Sunday of the next month, today is an exception.

March 2011 was a month with several exciting releases. It was the month of the web browser, that saw releases of Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4, Opera Mobile 11 and Opera Mini 6, and Google Chrome 12.

March was also the month were several Gmail users lost all of their inbox (later recovered), Amazon introduced its new controversial Cloud Drive service and Yahoo Search Direct.

Web browser related articles and guides have seen a surge this month thanks to the releases of new versions. This will go down a bit in coming months.

Backup:

The news that Google lost emails from some users and a personal request made me write the two backup related articles. For True Crypt, it is important to have a backup at hand in case of hard disk failures or header corruption.

How To Backup True Crypt Data To Be Prepared For Emergencies

The Gmail incident has shown that you should backup your emails that are stored exclusively online to be prepared for the worst case scenario.

Use MailStore To Backup Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Emails

Browsing:

Several guides and articles concentrated on the launches of Firefox 4 and Internet Explorer 9. Some address issues that users experience after upgrading to the new browser.

6 Tips To Get You Started With Firefox 4

Configure Firefox To Delete All Cookies On Exit But Select Ones

Firefox 4 URL Trimming, Display Full Web Addresses

Firefox Download Guide, How To Download The Web Browser

How To Add Missing HTML5 Video Support To Your Browser

How To Upgrade, Downgrade Google Chrome

Improve Firefox’s Image Viewer With Image Tools

Internet Explorer 9 Launch, All The Information You Need

Mozilla Demos Web Apps Store

Resetting Firefox, How To Start Fresh With Firefox 4

Opera Hardware Acceleration Demo Is Blazingly Fast

Play Flash Games Lag Free In Fullscreen In Google Chrome

Web Browser Benchmark Results Comparison

Why You Should Install Internet Explorer 9

Downloading:

How To Download Facebook Videos

Email:

How To Block Spam With A Secondary Email Account

Linux:

Linux command line tips: wget

Review: openSUSE 11.4

What will the new GNOME desktops mean for other Linux desktops?

Misc:

Giganews 1000-Days Retention Giveaway

How To Fill Out PDF Forms On Your Computer

How To Find Free Music On iTunes

Search:

Both Google and Yahoo have made changes to their search engines in March. Google introduced search results blocking and their +1 button feature that mimics Facebook Like.

Remove Google Properties From Search With A Comma

The ultimate tech search engine is a custom Google search engine that only searches the most popular tech sites, and nothing else. It is great for tech searches.

The Ultimate Tech Search Engine

Troubleshooting:

Several basic guides where posted in the troubleshooting section last month. These articles can be very helpful in certain situations.

How To Change A Windows Account Name And User Profile Folder Name

How To Create, Use A Windows Password Reset Disk

How To Edit, Reset The Windows Hosts File

How To Flush The DNS Cache In Windows

How To Remove Services In Windows

Taking the Pain Out of Reinstalling Windows

Updates:

Mozilla Releases Firefox 3 Security Updates

Firefox 4 Download Available, Release Tomorrow

Microsoft March 2011 Patch Day Overview

Opera Mobile 11, Opera Mini 6 Mobile Browsers Released

Windows:

There were not many new software releases this month. The two programs that impressed be the most in March are the Kanji Sketch Pad and the media player UMPlayer.

Clipboard Master, Windows Clipboard Manager

Dropbox Portable AHK, Run Dropbox Without Installation

Kanji Sketch Pad, Learn To Draw Kanji

New To Windows 7? Do This First!

Sort Your Music with Mp3 Folder Structure Maker

UMPlayer, Mplayer Fork With Interesting Features

Have anything to add? Let me know in the comments.

Ghacks January 2011 Best Of

Martin Brinkmann — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 10:25:12 +0000

A friend of mine recently asked me if I could write a best of post at the beginning of every month. He mainly asked that because he did not have time to check my website every day which could mean that he missed interesting articles. I’m interested in your opinion as well.

A total of 199 articles have been posted on Ghacks in January 2011. That’s roughly six per day. Posts have been contributed by me, Mike Halsey and Jack Wallen. The month was rather uneventful. We have seen two new Firefox betas, the Opera 11.01 release and new Internet Explorer 9 footage.

Best of Windows

This section lists interesting Windows articles that have been posted in January 2011. It is a personal selection sorted alphabetically.

Chromium Updater Overview

Find Out How Much Power USB Devices Need

Google webMail Filer For Thunderbird

Heatmapper, Visualize Wireless Coverage Of Wi-Fi Networks

Microsoft Mathematics Now Free, Perfect Tool For Math, Science Buffs

MiniBin, Windows Recycle Bin In System Tray

Switch To High Contrast Themes In Windows

SysInternals Updater

TorChat, Decentral Anonymous Instant Messenger

Use Miro To Play, Download Youtube Videos

Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Download

Windows Startup Programs Manager Toplist

WinSorter, Sort Highlighted Text In Windows

Best of Linux

My personal selection of Linux articles that have been posted in January 2011.

Add serious web content control with WebContentControl in Linux

Convert your ebooks and files to various formats with Calibre

Create and join VPN networks on your Linux machine with Hamachi

Create videos with OpenShot Video Editor

DNS Performance Test

Best of Browser

This section covers browser related tips and tricks, add-ons and other news. For development news scroll down to Best of Development.

Bypass The Microsoft SmartScreen Filter

Firefox 4 Essentials: What You Need To Know Before Making The Switch

Firefox Play Link, Load Media, Links In External Programs

Get More Space For Tabs In Internet Explorer 9

Leaked Internet Explorer 9 Screenshots Show Progress

Master Password+ Improves Firefox’s Master Password Feature

MultiPartTube, Play All Youtube Video Parts Without Interruption [Google Chrome]

Oh No, Mozilla Plans To Accelerate Development Cycle

The Difference Between Google Chrome Extensions And Web Apps

Zombie Keys, Write Foreign Language Special Characters In Firefox, Thunderbird

Best of Announcements, Development News, Updates

Covers web browser, operating system and software updates.

Firefox 4 Beta 10 Is Out

Firefox On Windows To Get Faster Startup Times

Firefox Panorama Gets Another Shortkey Change

Firefox Profile Manager To Be Removed Soon

Google Ditches H.264 Support In Google Chrome

IE9 to Launch February 10th

Microsoft: Windows 7 SP1 RTM Ready, IE9 RC Modifications

OpenOffice, LibreOffice 3.3 Final Released

Opera 11.01 Final Lands

Skype Toolbar Blocked In Firefox By Mozilla

Windows 8 Release Date: January 7, 2013?

Best of Privacy and Security

Updates and news about security and privacy related topics.

“Instant Personalisation” Arrives at Facebook. Be Afraid! Be Very Afraid!

Microsoft Security Bulletin Overview January 2011

The Weird, Leftovers

Everything that does not fit into another category.

How To Solve A Rubik’s Cube

Test Your IPv6 Connectivity

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