“In the beginning was the command line” is not the just name of a great book by Neil Stephensen (read the text here), but a way of life for many Linux users. The command line is the tool for just about any level user. However, the power user takes the command line to newer and [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

One of the main disadvantages of the Windows operating system is the lack of an internal application handling third party software updates on the computer system. An automatic update system like that offered in the Linux operating system would be increasing system security and stability of the Windows operating system. Several third party software programs [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Last week I posted an article discussing some of the issues with messaging application Digsby, and why for now I chose to instead use Pidgin. My conclusion was that although Digsby is a fantastic messaging client with good design and features, the 70mb+ RAM usage became just too much to put up with. Only a [...]

Categories: Software

Autopatcher was the perfect solution to update your Windows operating system while it lasted. You could download all patches to your local computer and execute them there. This made it possible to download patches once and update several computers locally without download the patches several times from Microsoft servers.

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Windows

Keeping the installed software on your computer up to date can be a time consuming task considering that users tend to have 100+ applications installed on their computers at the same time. To make matters worse there is no general way – like in Linux – to update your applications. Some offer build in update notifications but most do not have this feature.

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Windows

Welcome to another post in my weekly Software Updates series. I write about software that has been updated the last week on every Wednesday with a focus on software that has already been written about here at Ghacks. I encourage everyone to post findings of their own in the comment section which will give me the opportunity to check those applications out and write an article about them.

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Tools, Windows

A new update for Firefox has been released and can be downloaded from the official Mozilla website or by using the upgrade option in Firefox directly. Just click on Help, Check for Updates to download the latest build which adds some improvements to Firefox. The release notes state that the developers fixed seven security issues. Other improvements include Windows Vista support and the addition of several new languages.

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

For some time everyone thought that it was only possible to use a Vista update DVD from within Windows XP to update to the latest operating system. The Windows XP key would become invalid and the Vista installation could commence. DailyTech posted a workaround which makes it possible to install Windows Vista using a Vista update DVD without XP.

Categories: Hacking, Operating Systems, Windows

You now the drill. The mozilla team populates the ftp servers and global mirrors before they make the official announcement that firefox 2.0.1 has been released. You may however download the new update of firefox prior to the announcement. It probably does not make a lot of sense for many users to update using one of the ftp mirrors instead of waiting one or two days to download it from the official site or the update function.

Categories: Browsing, Firefox