Earlier this year a method to get access to data encrypted with the Open Source software True Crypt was published by security researchers. It involved physical access to the protected computer system. […]
Microsoft's Outlook email client comes with an option to add photos to contacts that have been added automatically or manually by the user. This does make sense as it becomes easier to […]
DENIM is a web design tool to help web designers in the early stages of the design process. The program provides the web designer with the means to sketch the website at […]
The Firefox web browser will display the source code of any website by default in its own interface. There are two configuration parameters that can be set so that another external source […]
Today was a day that offered me a few good surprises. On my editing schedule I have an assignment to cover virtual machines using KVM. But since KVM only works with CPUs […]
YouTube is not really optimized for low bandwidth Internet connections nor for slow computer systems like netbooks. Most computer users who access YouTube with that hardware notice that the experience is not […]
If there is anything left in the online world that Google is not offering a service for yet, chance is that they are working on exactly that service behind the scenes to […]
Most email clients and services display quotes around the original email message when a user replies to an email. These quotes list part or all of the original message, and may even […]
If you have done much work with Apache then most likely you have experienced a need for enabling the rewrite engine. If you are unfamiliar with the rewrite engine, you can think […]
Starting today, Google begins rolling out a new search personalization feature that has an impact on every search engine user that is using one of Google's search engines. Previously, personalized search results […]
Namedate is a free portable program for Microsoft Windows devices to add time and date to individual files or entire file structures. If you are a software collector like Roman you often […]
Drive Cleanup is a free portable program for Microsoft Windows devices that removes information on non-present storage devices such as disks, floppy drives, CDRoms, USB Storage devices and other devices types from […]
Quizzes are quite popular on Facebook. Have you ever asked yourself which information are accessible to quizzes and applications if you allow them to access your account, before taking the quiz to […]
Panda Internet Security 2010 is an all in one security program for the Windows operating system that protects the computer system in various ways from threats that today's PC users encounter everyday. […]
I remember, back in the day, when dealing with fonts in Linux was a real problem. At best you were given the xfontsel application, which was an X11 way of displaying the […]
Google's entry as a DNS server provider (read: Google Public DNS) has caused quite a stir on the Internet. Some users have had privacy concerns while others started testing and using the […]
Recover My Files is a commercial data recovery software for Microsoft's Windows operating system to restore deleted files. There are basically two options when you are dealing with data loss: the first […]
Search results are different depending on the search engine you use to search the web. The language plays another important role. A search for Berlin Sightseeing and Berlin Sehenswürdigkeiten will yield two […]
The majority of Internet users has not probably come into contact with DNS, the Domain Name System, although it is one of the cornerstone technologies of the Internet. DNS is basically a […]
Android OS is about to make the migration from mobile phone to netbook PC (most likely thanks to Asus). If you've not seen an Android-based phone, you most likely are not aware […]
The Mozilla website hosts several add-on directories for Mozilla software such as those for Firefox or Thunderbird. If you look at these add-ons you will eventually notice that not all add-ons are […]
Email is not the best option to transfer large files. One of the reasons why it is not, are attachment limits that make email servers reject emails that are larger than a […]
Family Safety is a program of Microsoft's Windows Live program suite that can be used to run content filters for specific user accounts. It has been specifically designed for computers that several […]
Google and Microsoft have recently published several posts that indicate that they are going to put more emphasize on a website's performance in regards to Google Search and Bing search results. This […]
The memory usage of modern web browsers has increased quite a bit over the years which can be attributed to the increased functionality, but also to plugins and extensions that use computer […]
Keeping yourself on task can be difficult with so many distractions available. From the internet, to colleagues, to music, to just about anything - it seems everything around you is doing its best to keep […]
Several webmasters that I have talked to in the last year expressed their concern about Google's website traffic analyzer Google Analytics. Once of the complaints was that the Analytics script would slow […]
Windows 7, unlike previous Microsoft operating systems, comes with extended capabilities to play video files out of the box. The operating system comes with codecs to play Divx, Xvid, H.264, AAC and […]
Wikipedia is a popular online encyclopedia that can be a good starting point for research on any subject you may be interested in. What Wikipedia sorely needs is a better search engine […]
Mark Zuckerberg announced upcoming changes to Facebook's privacy settings in an open letter to the Facebook community. The main reason for the privacy change is connected to the incredible growth of the […]
Total Toolbars is a Firefox add-on that extends the browser's options to customize toolbars displayed in its interface. One of the biggest additions is the ability to control and customize the icons […]
I have been working with the Acetone ISO manager and have been in awe at how much this tool can do. The creators of Acetone call it a CD/DVD image manager, but […]
Snippage is a free application for Adobe Air which you can use to display website content on the computer desktop as widgets. Computer users can for instance use this to display the […]
Some Windows 7 users have reported a problem with the operating system that they experienced after installing the latest Microsoft security update on November 25. Some incidents about the so called black […]
The developers of the Windows system monitor What's Running have recently released beta 3 of their upcoming third version of the software program. What's Running is a system monitor for Microsoft windows […]
Google's Android platform, which was once backed only by HTC has come a long way since then. Many cell phone manufacturers are releasing Android based cell phones at the moment including Samsung, […]
Winzip 14 is a file compression software for the Windows operating system. Veteran computer users may know Winzip from back in the days as it was one of the first software programs […]
Today a loyal reader sent me a message saying he enjoyed the Alternative Linux web browsers article and was hoping I could apply the same idea to PDF viewers. The truth of […]
Microsoft has released the final version of their security software Microsoft Security Essentials on the same day that they have released their latest operating system Windows 7. Microsoft Security Essentials is a […]
Manga are very popular these days both in the "real" world but also on the Internet. There are lots of places where Manga fans can read Manga online. Websites like One Manga […]
