With the rise of KDE 4.4 comes a new crop of desktop widgets (or Plasmoids). Earlier renditions of KDE 4.x saw the Plasmoids less than useful. The latest workings, however, have become […]
Watch Live Football Streaming Online is a free browser extension for Google Chrome that lists live football streams that you can tune in to in its interface. In time for the beginning […]
Firefox matches the text that users enter into its address bar automatically with the browsing history, bookmarks, and open tabs to display matches to the user. One thing that I noticed lately […]
Daniel reviewed a program called Outlook on the desktop two years ago which enables Windows users to display the Outlook calendar on the system's desktop where it can be conveniently accessed without […]
Data Recovery Wizard is a free and commercial file recovery and partition recovery program for the Windows operating system. Computer users should have at least one data recovery software at hand in […]
Google released a YouTube Test video back in 2010. The test video was designed to help Youtube users who are experiencing problems playing back videos on the popular video hosting website. Different […]
Nokia's PC Suite is a software program for the Windows operating system that can be used to connect and manage Nokia mobile phones. The application adds all sorts of useful features, for […]
Reports about blue screen crashes began to appear on the Internet shortly after the release of this month's security patches for the Windows operating system. Especially Windows XP users seemed to have […]
If you read my most recent article ("Upgrading to KDE 4.3.5 and should you") you will have noticed two things: 1) I am behind by one release on my KDE updates ;-) […]
Find, Mix and Watch. That is the slogan of YouTube's newest addition YouTube Disco. The new feature is basically a music exploration service. It begins by entering an artist, band or song […]
If you ever wanted to open a few websites from Firefox's bookmarks folder, the history or the autocomplete option you know that it requires more work than it should. The menus close […]
This morning I decided to go ahead and upgrade KDE to the latest, stable release. I had grown weary of this Linux desktop because of instability issue as well as lack of […]
Start-Q is a Windows startup manager that you can use to delay the startup of select programs to speed up the overall startup performance of the system. Older versions of the Windows […]
PDF Binder is a free program for Microsoft Windows operating systems that lets you merge multiple PDF documents into one. There are several scenarios where users might want to merge PDF files […]
One of the new features of Google Chrome 5 is a Google Translate bar that pops up automatically if a website uses a different language than the default system language. Chrome users […]
I've been using Linux for longer than I can remember. Over those years I have written a number of "top 5" lists for various publications. So I thought it would be fun […]
SearchFilterView is a free software program for Microsoft Windows that lists all installed search filters of the computer in its interface when you run it. The Windows operating system, or more precisely […]
We started the February guide of building a PC with the selection of the computer's cpu, memory and motherboard. This article will add a power supply unit (PSU), a case and the […]
If you search for cancel Google using your search engine of choice, you may notice that the resulting pages may display widely varying answers or information. The core reason here is that […]
A recently published technical paper entitled "Chip and pin is broken" by security researchers Steven Murdoch, Saar Drimer, Mike Bond and Ross Anderson reveals how criminals can use stolen payment cards without […]
Remember Aardvark? The community that was designed around experts that helped other users who experienced problems in their field of expertise? The premise of Aardvark was that every user in the world […]
Every tech blog and website in existence seems to have written about Google Buzz at least once since its release a few days ago. That's a lot of feedback for a relatively […]
Right-click on your GNOME desktop and take a look at what is inside the Create Document menu. More than likely nothing. Why is that? This menu, as well as the Nautilus File […]
Reports by Windows users suggest that at least one of the installed security updates of this month's Patch Day have caused restart issues on systems running the Windows operating system. A recent […]
The Cleaner was one of the few solid programs back in the good old days to clean malicious software from a Windows computer system. It somehow seems to have lost its appeal to […]
I just got an email from long time reader Ben who told me that my feed would not update automatically anymore. After checking the feed it turned out that he was right. […]
Microsoft made an announcement earlier today that it will add the Windows Activation Technologies Update For Windows 7 in the next 14 days to Windows Update where it will be listed as […]
Phishing is a serious problem on today's Internet even with phishing protections in email clients, web browsers and security software in place. The main reason for that is that the majority of […]
The Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate was released last week to MSDN subscribers. Microsoft promised back then that the download would be made available to the public shortly afterwards. Microsoft kept […]
Schools need open source. They need it to save money and they need it for reliability an flexibility. The problem is there aren't many distributions geared towards educational institutions. Because of the […]
Google Buzz has been announced publicly just a few days ago. It allows Gmail users to use social networking features that are similar to those offered on Twitter without having to create […]
Look In My PC is a free auditing program for all supported versions of Microsoft Windows that may generate dozens of reports when run. Technicians and system administrators who are troubleshooting PC […]
Many email providers only accept email attachments up to a specific limit size-wise. The maximum size limit is different for most providers and can range from a Megabyte to 20 or 25 […]
Have you ever had a need to migrate current running Linux users from installation to another? That would be a simple task if the user count was low. But  what happens when […]
SSD Tweaker is an analysis and optimization program for Solid State Drives connected to devices running all supported versions of Windows. Being an early adopter is not always easy. While you get […]
Microsoft has released a total of 14 security updates on yesterday's patch day. The updates are, as usual, for several Microsoft software products including the Microsoft Windows operating system and Microsoft Office. […]
Update: Google Buzz has been retired and replaced by Google+. You can read more about the platform on Wikipedia. It feels like there is not a day where Google is not updating […]
Every web browser offers some form of ad-blocking functionality which blocks advertisement and commercials from being shown when websites are loaded in it. Firefox users have adblock plus or Noscript, Opera users […]
Computer users have several options when they need to take notes. They can write the notes down on paper, try to remember the information, use a text editor, use a specialized note […]
One of the problems that many computer users experience after a computer virus attack are changes to the system cause by the malicious software. This can for instance mean that system tools […]
