The most common type of RSS feeds is textual. But there are also feeds with regular attachments like photo, video or audio attachments. Some RSS feed readers automatically download those attachments if the feed has been added to that reader while others do not do it or do not provide a comfortable option to download [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Feb 21st, 2010
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Install Perl modules using CPAN
If you’ve come across any software that requires Perl modules, you might have found yourself pulling out your hair, trying to figure out how to install those modules. You’ve tried downloading the source, only to find one dependency issue or another. You’ve searched Synaptic or gnome-packagekit high and low to come up empty handed.
What you [...]
Free Registry Cleaner
A Registry Cleaner scans the Registry for invalid and outdated entries with the option to remove those. This can increase the stability and performance of the Windows operating system. Little Registry Cleaner is an Open Source software program that can scan the Registry in Windows. The application suggests to create a System Restore Point on [...]
50 100k Or Less Windows Software Programs
Back in the good old days it was essential to write optimized code so that a program could fit on a disk for easy distribution. Today size does not matter that much anymore and some developer’s seem to take the easy road to provide their users with less optimized programs.
That’s not such a big problem [...]
National Geographic Wallpaper Downloader Updated
The National Geographic Wallpaper Downloader has been initially released in December of last year. The application back then allowed a user to download hundreds of National Geographic wallpapers in an automated process. All that had to be done in version 1.0 of the wallpaper downloader was to select the years and the desired resolution and [...]
User Management Software
If you are a Windows system administrator you sometimes have to manage a computer’s user accounts. You might want to check all the user accounts, list their status, enable or disable them or reset a password for a specific account.
This can be all done from the command line without lots of effort if the commands [...]
Reprofiler Fixes Windows User Profile Errors
Every user in the Windows operating system has a user folder associated with the account name that stores computer settings and data. It can happen that the link between the user account and the user folder gets lost. Some reasons for this are hardware failures, migrating to a new computer system, username changes, joining the [...]
Typing Aid To Auto Complete Words
Auto complete is a semi-automated typing aid that usually is added by software developer’s to their programs. They usually match words in a dictionary against the first few chars that are typed by the user. The user can then activate the auto completion of the word or continue typing to finish the word or reduce [...]