If you are living in the United States, and like to watch a movie from time to time, you are in for a new treat courtesy of the government, the FBI, ICE, and six major movie studios. According to an Ars Technica, new movies will soon carry two unskippable government warnings, that legit buyers will [...]
Display The Article Word Count In WordPress
Back in 2005 when I started this very blog that you are currently reading, I did not really care that much about the size of articles posted here on the site. While that may not seem like a big issue, with Google Panda and all, it can very well be one. Especially Google, but also [...]
GeekUninstaller, Revo Uninstaller Alternative?
I think we can all agree that the default Windows way of uninstalling programs is not overly thorough. It happens quite often that you end with file, empty folder or Registry setting leftovers after the removal of a software in Windows. While this usually is not such a big issue, it may not be desired [...]
Windows Tweaker 4 Released, Now Windows 8 Compatible
The program formerly known as Windows 7 Tweaker is no more, it is now known as Windows Tweaker. Its developer has just released version 4.0 of the software that Windows users can use to tweak certain features and parameters of their operating system. Windows Tweaker 4.0 supports all client side Windows systems from Windows XP [...]
4Sync, Another Cloud Hosting Service Enters The Arena
There is barely a company left that has not started a cloud hosting service yet. While that is an exaggeration, the increase in companies launching cloud hosting services has increased in recent months significantly. 4Sync has been around for some time though, which might disqualify it. Then again, it is offering its users 15 Gigabytes [...]
Mozilla Thunderbird 12 Slow? Try This Fix!
If you are using Mozilla’s Thunderbird email client on a desktop computer, you probably have updated to version 12 of the client when the new version came out. Shortly thereafter, Thunderbird was updated to version 12.0.1, which resolved several issues that came to light after the final release of Thunderbird 12. Some Thunderbird users ever [...]
The Perfect Software Download Portal
When I’m thinking of download portals, I’m usually thinking of big sites like Softpedia or Major Geeks, that host millions of applications and other computer related downloads on their servers. There are specialized portals, smaller in size, like Betanews for instance, or the excellent Freeware BB. I’m currently considering creating a software portal of my [...]
Microsoft Security Bulletins For May 2012 Released
It is patch Tuesday in Redmond, and Microsoft has just made available a new batch of security related patches for some of their software products. The majority of security bulletins fix issues in the Microsoft Windows operating system and Microsoft Office, while some address issues in the Microsoft .Net Framework and Microsoft Silverlight. Three bulletins [...]
Game Downloader 2.9 Update Brings Better Previews, New Features
If you like to play games on your PC, and do not really care if they have the latest and greatest effects and graphics or not, but do care about them being fun to play, then you may like to download and play free PC games. These fan made games may not be top notch [...]