The maximize, minimize and close controls are located on the right side of each window title in the Windows operating system. While that might be a convenient location after working for years that way. There is not really much information available why the controls have been put on the right side of the windows though [...]

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Animated gifs have a bad reputation on the Internet which stems from the early days. There was a time back then when the Internet was new that animated gifs were considered a wonderful addition to many websites. Those blinking irritating websites died off long ago with only some remaining but usually abandoned by their webmasters.
There [...]

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Skype saves logs of all conversations in the voice over IP software. In Windows those files are stored in the Skype folder in the user profile. These log files are hard to read but reveal some information about the conversation. The problem with Skype logs is that Skype is sorting them by size instead of [...]

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Rarst published an interesting article yesterday on his blog with the title Ketarin - keeps setup packages updated. It introduces a different concept to automatic software updaters like SUMO or our software updaters overview.
Ketarin on the other hand does not keep the software on a specific computer system up to date. The difference is that [...]

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Tabs have become the standard in web browsers to browse Internet pages. They have several advantages like being space efficient or easier manageable. The first application for Windows that introduced tabbed browsing was QT Tab Bar which added that functionality to Windows Explorer.
Windows Tabifier takes the concept a step further by breaking out of the [...]

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