Well it seems that both Yahoo and Microsoft have reached an agreement regarding their search deal. You might remember that it has been close to two years that both companies have been […]
You may have read my series on VirtualBox virtual machine manager. If not, here it is: Installing and configuring VirtualBox for virtual OSes. Installing Windows XP as a virtual machine in VirtualBox. […]
There are some keys on standard computer keyboards that you may not use at all, like the caps lock key for instance which can even have a negative impact on your activities […]
Windows Vista introduced a new imaging stack, called Windows Imaging Component (WIC), and uses it in Windows Explorer to create thumbnails for most image file formats. Third-party software can use WIC codecs […]
The developers of ImgBurn have just released version 2.5 of their lightweight DVD burning software which added some interesting features to the already excellent software program. The biggest quirks that new users […]
A process that does not respond can be dealt with in various ways in the Windows operating system. One of the most common reactions in this case is to use the keyboard […]
How could version 3.7 and version 4.0 of the Firefox web browser look like? That's something that the Mozilla development team tried to answer by posting design mockups of Firefox 4 and […]
Microsoft's new search engine Bing is doing quite well in several search engine marketing studies. It could do better and one interesting idea that the Microsoft researchers had was to create a […]
Microsoft has released a critical security fix for its Internet Explorer web browsers. The vulnerability, actually its more than one that is patched by the cumulative update, affect most Internet Explorer versions […]
I get this a lot "How can I open and edit PDF files without having to purchase a costly application like QarkXPress"? Before OpenOffice extensions came about my answer to that would […]
Open Contacts is a free Open Source address book software that comes with an extensive set of options and a rather outdated user interface. Several import options are available for new users […]
The Direfox web browser does not offer many bookmark sorting options. The only option that is actually provided by right-clicking a folder is to sort the bookmarks by name. This is however […]
I started using Nero Burning Rom back in the days of the - super expensive - CD burners. It was an excellent CD burning software program but deteriorated into a resource hungry […]
For more and more people these days, our identities are centered online. Whether you have a company, a blog, or just a Facebook page, most of us have some sort of online […]
Microsoft and Reverbnation are currently running a promotion that is offering 1000 songs for free download. The songs are available in mp3 and m4a format and can be downloaded directly from one […]
As you can probably guess my machines are in a constant state of flux. Having to write about one distribution after another (and then include the scattered Windows content to cover) makes […]
A great Outlook feature is that it can be extended with plugins. Similarly to how the Mozilla Thunderbird email client or the Firefox web browser can be extended, but with the exception […]
Most Firefox users dislike how mouse scrolling is handled in the web browser. It feels everything but smooth and there are no obvious preferences in the Firefox options to change the scroll […]
Hundreds of different solutions exist to reduce the resolution of photos by resizing the images; these solutions are available as software programs but also online services. Quality is usually not an issue […]
Winsock, which stands for Windows Sockets Api, defines how networking software should access network services. Many users come into contact with Winsock after experiencing connection problems that are usually related to Winsock. […]
Probably one of the most important pieces of software you think about when looking to keep your PC healthy is anti-virus software. You have the option of purchasing top of the line […]
In many applications the desktop software allows you to take advantage of more than one function at a time on your computer screen. Instead of only having 'one' display for a spreadsheet […]
Opera Portal Beta is a relatively unknown service offered by the web browser developer Opera. It basically offers users a customizable start page that can be best compared to similar services such […]
You might have experienced a situation in the past where Windows asked you to put the original Windows installation CD into a computer drive to continue. This could have been the result […]
I have a confession to make. My favorite game of all time is Zombies Ate My Neighbors. It was a classic Super Nintendo game that had you playing either a young boy […]
Google Translate is a web service offered by Google that allows users to get instant machine translations of texts that they paste in the web interface or of websites that they enter […]
I'm not sure when the problem started but it was after one of the last Firefox updates. I have placed several bookmark folders and bookmarks in the Firefox toolbar that displays the […]
It is a pretty solid walkthrough that unfortunately lacks images to go along with the article. The tips and tweaks are divided into these five subjects:
Webmasters should be interested in comments and links that get posted on the Internet that refer to articles they have published or their website in general. One very popular platform to post […]
Chance is you have already stumbled upon a few websites that are posting images as links or thumbnails. The only way to view the full images is to click on the links […]
On top of being a technical writer I am also a writer of novels. Writing novels is a much different beast than writing tutorials, reviews, and documentation. Writing novels requires some serious […]
If you are a webmaster you will eventually stumble upon users in the access logs that tried to access pages on the website that do not exist. These visitors are presented with […]
Doc Update is a brand new software program that has been uploaded to Sourceforge recently. The Open Source tool can be used to display document updates not only from the active user […]
Google Image Search is a very comprehensive image search engine. It basically works the same way as the standard Google search with the difference that image thumbnails are displayed as results on […]
To grow accustomed to the way M2 sorts e-mails, one has to first get rid of prejudice created by most other e-mail clients about how this kind of application is meant to […]
Realtime search seems to be one of the buzzwords of the year. Many search engines have plans to include realtime search in their search results. Microsoft's search engine Bing already does include […]
I recently found the need to install Ubuntu on a machine with a poor CD drive (and no USB ports) that could not read large amounts of data, but could manage to […]
If you have ever had a need for an on-line shopping cart, and have ever tried to install a shopping cart, you know that making a choice can be a challenge, and […]
Broken links on websites and blogs can have several negative side effects. This includes visitor frustration as broken links waste their time and can change the perception of the website the link […]
One cannot really say that Google is not working hard to make Gmail a better service. They started to introduce many features in the online email client lately that would not only […]
