The Firefox web browser has been my main Internet browser for the past years. Some time ago I decided to disable the Flash plugin in the browser, which sometimes led to a […]
I stopped counting the redesigns and design changes that Google made on its properties in the second half of 2011 when they started to be launched in a much faster interval. It […]
Installing updates as soon as they are released is usually a good thing to do, considering that they more often than not fix issues that you'd otherwise experience or be vulnerable to. […]
Norwegian company Opera Software has released Opera 12.00 just a few minutes ago. Opera users who start the browser on their system should see update notifications displayed to them in the next […]
I have recently been receiving quite a few email notifications from Google+ that informed me of new posts and comments on the social networking site. While I did not mind that in […]
A new version of the popular WordPress blogging platform has just been released. Webmaster running a WordPress blog should see update notifications right now on their sites in the admin dashboard. Here […]
Microsoft paid $8.5 Billion U.S. Dollar for the Skype brand and technology which even for Microsoft was a hefty investment that Microsoft did not only make in what Skype offered to the […]
The Songbird team has just released version 2.0 of the music management software for Android and PC and Macintosh systems. Both versions have received a lighter theme matching the look and feel […]
If you are regularly making use of Facebook chat, you have probably noticed that you can only keep up with messages if you have the Facebook site open and pay attention to […]
With two Solid State Drives and only one platter-based drive in my main PC, defragmentation has become more of a non-issue lately. While I still have to take care of the standard […]
You may remember that I bought a new PC recently which I intended to use as a backup PC if my current machine would stop working. I may have gone a bit […]
Microsoft unlocked the security updates for June 2012 a few minutes ago which Windows users can now downloaded via the operating system's Windows Update feature. A total of seven different bulletins have […]
On Google Chrome Canary, I have lately been getting the Extensions, apps, and user scripts cannot be installed from this web site error message when I was trying to install a userscript […]
Even if you are running security software that gets regularly updated by its development company, you run the risk of falling prey to dangers that lurk behind every corner on the Internet. […]
A few days ago I mentioned that Google was about to release the first Metro version of the Chrome browser. As you all know, Windows 8 will ship with two user interaces, […]
Browser makers have four options to deal with Flash issues. They can do nothing and continue to support the Flash plugin, start to integrate Flash natively into the browser like Google did […]
Passphrases have several advantages over conventional passwords that make them more suitable in a variety of situations. The main distinguishing factor between passphrases and passwords is that the former consist of multiple […]
If you want to view a photo on the popular photo hosting site Flickr in its original size, you need to click your way through a number of pages before you finally […]
Depending on how you store, download and transfer files, duplicate files may make up a portion of the used disk space on the computer. While that may be a problem at all […]
Windows 8 just like its predecessor Windows 7 ships with an administrator account that is disabled by default. While it is not suggested to enable and use the administrators on a day […]
Sometimes when I double-check on the processes running on my Windows PC I wonder how a particular process managed to get started in first place. The Windows Task Manager does not reveal […]
News broke a few days ago that Google hat acquired yet another company. The company this time was the popular web instant messaging service Meebo, and it quickly was announced that most […]
If you are currently working with Firefox 12 or later and making use of the browser's session restore feature, you may have noticed that only the active tab gets loaded during the […]
I'm not a huge fan of Hotmail's current layout and design, as I feel it is rather messy, and that this is keeping me from working effectively with the web mail client. […]
If you type a lot on your computer you are probably interested in improving your typing skills further to complete given tasks in a shorter period of time. We have covered quite […]
The Internet has made it a lot easier to keep up with weather reports and weather related information. Instead of having to read the newspaper's weather forecast, listen to Radio, or even […]
Relic of War is a strategy game set in an alternate World War 2 timeline. Players can chose to play the Allies or Axis, and the choice defines both the starting position […]
Opera 12.00 will be released shortly with the first release candidate already posted for evaluation purposes on the Opera website (actually two by the time of writing). One of the new features […]
Search engines are moving away from being a catalog of weighted websites to a service that goes beyond just that big time. Google for instance launched Knowledge Graph which is displaying information […]
With the recent wave of websites and services that have been compromised, and the breaches that happened before that last wave, I'd like to take a look at password security on the […]
Opera Software has been working on Opera 12.00 for the past months, releasing one snapshot after the other in that time. Today the company released the first release candidate of Opera 12 […]
Up until now Facebook users who wanted to install a particular app or game on the social networking site had to either search for it on Facebook, or be notified about it […]
If you have never come in contact with .srr files before you are probably wondering what those files are used for. You may find them attached to downloads on the Internet, for […]
News broke yesterday that attackers managed to get their hands on about 6.5 million LinkedIn password hashes after a successful security breach. LinkedIn reacted quickly and disabled the affected user account passwords […]
An effective way to reduce the impact of malware on a system is to sandbox applications. One of the most popular programs in this regard is Sandboxie which we can fully recommend. […]
As a webmaster it is becoming more and more important to stay in the loop. With all the Pandas, Penguins and other updates happening at a much faster pace, webmasters have to […]
LinkedIn yesterday confirmed that there was a breach of security, and that member passwords were dumped by the attackers. The password hashes have been posted on the Internet in a 250 Megabyte […]
One of the biggest issues with Java, or more precisely the Java Runtime Environment, is that multiple versions of the software can be installed on the same system. This can be solely […]
When it comes to printing out websites you often end with an output that is displaying more than what you actually needed in terms of information. You may see advertisement, menus, widgets […]
Whenever you follow a link on the Internet, the site that you are visiting receives information where you cam from. This is the so called referrer that website operators use to analyze […]
