In their effort to do away with all extra windows in the Firefox web browser, Mozilla has landed in-content preferences in the latest Firefox Nightly builds. What this basically does is move the preferences, which previously were displayed in a preferences window, into their own options tab in the browser when they are opened by [...]
Fix a missing System Tray in Windows
Today when I started my computer I noticed something that I never experienced before. Everything looked normal, except for the System Tray area in the Windows Taskbar. The System Tray was missing, and I first thought that I had hit a switch or something to hide it from the taskbar. All I saw in the [...]
OpenDNS DNSCrypt, Increase Security By Encrypting DNS Traffic
Computer users face many dangers when they connect their computer to the Internet, from being attacked while visiting websites over malicious software to man in the middle attacks and traffic snooping. The popular DNS provider OpenDNS has just announced that they have created another tool for users to protect themselves and their date from a [...]
No Third-Party Browsers On Windows RT?
If you have paid attention to tech news of the past days you have probably come upon the controversy surrounding Microsoft’s upcoming ARM-based Windows RT operating system. It all started with Aza Dotzler’s post on his Mozilla web blog where he mentioned that Mozilla would not be able to bring Firefox to Windows RT. In [...]
Bing Redesign Part 2, Boosts Social, Relevancy
If you have to Bing recently you may have noticed the new minimalistic design of the search engine when compared to before. This move was apparently only the first step in the redesign of the Bing search engine. The Bing team has just announced that they will be rolling out the second part of the [...]
Facebook Breaks Ties With Grooveshark Permanently
If you have been one of the five hundred thousand or so Grooveshark app user over at Facebook, you may have noticed that the app is not working anymore. Or, maybe you are one of the users who used a Facebook account to log in to the account at the Grooveshark website. Then, you also [...]
My Daily Wallpaper Fixes All Your Desktop Background Needs
Do you still use the background image that Windows ships with, or have you already changed it to a custom one? Chance is you have, and it has been entirely up to you whether you have used a photo you have taken, another image that you found on your computer, or a wallpaper from one [...]
Opera 11.64 Update Is Out
Opera Software has just released an update to Opera stable bringing the version of the desktop browser to 11.64. Wait, 11.64? Did the company make a blunder and skip version 11.63 in the updating process? No, they did not. After Opera 11.62 had been released, the company pushed out an Mac exclusive update that brought [...]
Fix Windows Errors With This Error Lookup Tool
Error messages can be quite the confusing experience in the Windows operating system, mostly because they often do not reveal what the error is all about. If you are unlucky, all you get is a cryptic error message or code that leaves you standing in the rain. If that is the case, all you can [...]