The Firefox web browser comes in several flavors. When you look at what is on offer, you will notice that users can download and run beta, aurora and nightly versions of the browser next to the stable releases that the majority of Firefox users run. But even that is not all, as there are also [...]
Lunascape, A Triple-Engine Internet Browser
When you look at the five major web browsers, that is Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari, you will notice many similarities, and less differences. Don’t get me wrong, there are differences and features unique to some browsers, like Opera’s Turbo feature, or different ways of handling things in the browser. While it [...]
ochDownloader, a JDownloader alternative
When it comes to download files from file hosting sites without all the hassles involved doing that directly on the site’s website, JDownloader is the go-to program for many. Many things speak for the program; its support for more than 100 different file hosts and over 300 decryption plug-ins, support for premium accounts, that it [...]
Visual Studio 11: Only For Windows 7 or higher
Windows 8 is not the only product that Microsoft is currently working on. The company is also working on a refresh of their popular Visual Studio product lineup, and boy, there will be changes that will certainly irritate part of the user base that is currently working with the product. Microsoft notes that Visual Studio [...]
Change Firefox shortcuts with the Customizable Shortcuts add-on
Back when Mozilla introduced the Tab Groups feature I often hit the assigned shortcut accidentally triggering it. This was annoying and back then there were virtually no options to get around it. Mozilla then later on changed the shortcut and everything was good. If you have a shortcut of your own that you hit by [...]
The Piratebay: Cat and Mouse game continues
If you are living in the UK, or another country where access to the popular Bittorrent indexing site the Piratebay has been blocked, you may have wondered what this is all about. In the U.K. for instance, major ISPs have agreed to block access to the site. If you are a customer of one of [...]
Windows 8′s Boot Experience Will Be Different
When there is something wrong with my Windows 7 desktop PC, I tend to hammer on the F8 key during boot to get into the advanced boot options. Here I can then repair or recover from issues that I may experience at that time. With Window s8, that process will be completely different. The main [...]
Quick check your system for problems with System Security Guard
As you may know, I like to run portable security programs from time to time on systems that I own or administrate as part of a system’s regular maintenance. For that, I also like to test new programs that come up, or have slipped passed me previously. System Security Guard is a free portable program [...]
Easiest way to show windows side by side in Windows
When I’m working on a computer that is connected to a single monitor, I often like to display two windows side by side, especially when writing a new blog post. I usually display the WordPress admin interface where I write the post in one window, and the developer web page or another source in the [...]