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Why Google Chrome OS Will Have No Huge Impact

Many news websites, bloggers and even conventional news sources such as newspapers or TV news have reported about the Microsoft killer Google Chrome OS, the cloud based operating system by Google that […]

Movie Database Software MBase 2

Probably the best way of managing and maintaining a movie collection is to make use of a movie database software. We have covered several software programs in the past like the video […]

Mouse Cursor Disappearing Frequently In Firefox, Internet Explorer And Opera

Roman send me an email yesterday about a problem that he researched the other day. He noticed that the mouse cursor in every Firefox tab was disappearing and appearing again with no […]

Check HTML With CSE HTML Validator Lite

Webmasters need a local html file so that it can be loaded into the software program. The easiest way to achieve this is to go to the website that should be validated, […]

Improve Online Reading With Readability Bookmarklet

Online reading is not the same as reading a newspaper, book or magazine. The main reason why it is not the same is the many formatting options that webmasters have to display […]

Block Websites From Appearing In Firefox History

There are many users who like to use the history of their web browser, as it provides them with faster access to websites, as well as a way to find websites again […]

Identify The Digital Camera A Photo Was Taken With On Flickr

Flickr is probably the most popular photo hosting and sharing on the Internet with thousands of new photos posted to the site every minute. It is great for discovering photos and locations […]

Android vs. webOS

So far we’ve heard quite a bit of comparisons between the webOS platform and OSX (for the iPhone), as well as Android vs. OSX. But so far, comparisons between both Android and […]

Linux Tips: Handy ways to grep

The grep command is one of the handiest Linux commands you will use. The grep utitility was originally writing for UNIX and stands for Global Regular Expression Print. What grep does is […]

Google Talk Autoreply

Google Talk is not only used by individuals who want to chat with their family, friends and relatives but also by businesses who use it to communicate with customers and for internal […]

Search British Newspapers From 1800-1900

The Internet offers many people a chance to access resources and information that they could otherwise hardly - if at all - obtain. One interesting source of information is the British Newspapers […]

Add External Application Links To Thunderbird

We have just reviewed an add-on for the Firefox web browser that allows the user to add software links to one of the Firefox toolbars so that programs can be quickly started […]

Google Chrome OS

There were always rumors that Google was developing an operating system. We are not speaking about Google Android, the operating system that is being installed on mobile devices like cellphones. No, this […]

Add Software Links To Firefox

Many users who work in a web browser need to occasionally open another application on their computer system. Webmasters might need to use a screenshot taking tool or sftp client to manage […]

Assign IPv6 addresses in Linux

It is inevitable that IPv6 addresses are going to eventually take over. When that happens you will need to know just how to assign an IPv6 address in your Linux operating system. […]

6 Great Evernote Features That Don't Get Enough Press

 Evernote is one of the best applications I've ever used, and is a critical part of my work and personal organization. Everything I think, do or see that I want to record […]

Conduct your courses on line with ATutor

ATutor is an open source Content Managment System (CMS) focused on education and the class room.  If you think about it, a CMS is the perfect springboard for the creation of a […]

In Plain English

If you have to explain a concept to someone you better make sure to match their proficiency level so that they actually understand what you are talking about. If you work in […]

VLC Media Player 1.0 Released

The VideoLan team today announced the release of version 1.0.0 of their popular media player VLC Media Player. The major release introduces many few features, formats and codecs to VLC and fixes […]

Mozilla Open Web Tools Directory

The Mozilla team has launched the Open Web Tools Directory today which offers a variety of tools that can aid web developers in their projects. You are however wrong if you are […]

Internet Explorer Vulnerability Fix

Microsoft has released a security advisory about a vulnerability in Microsoft Video ActiveX Control which can be exploited remotely in Internet Explorer. The vulnerability advisory states that Microsoft is aware that attackers […]

Backup Messenger And SMS Online

Many users with more than one computer system face a problem if they use Instant Messengers: How can they make sure that the data of all messenger clients is synced. This might […]

Bing Downloader

You might want to try out Bing Downloader if you are a huge fan of the Microsoft search engine Bing, or enjoy looking at the wallpapers that get posted as background images […]

Microsoft Rogue Detection Tool

Rogue DHCP Server Detection Tool has been created by the Microsoft Windows DHCP Team to provide system administrators and users with a tool to detect rogue DHCP servers in computer networks. The […]

Set your hostname in Linux

If you are an administrator then you know what a hostname is. If you are not an administrator then you should know the hostname of a computer is the name which a […]

Microsoft Hohm Beta Public

Microsoft is currently sending out emails to users who registered for announcements about the Microsoft Hohm service which was in private beta until today. It is now possible for everyone to signup […]

How To Handle Bulk Spam As A Webmaster

If you are a webmaster you usually know what spam is. Blog owners experience spam usually in the form of comments, trackbacks or pings that spammer use to place links to their […]

Run Software With Parameters In Windows

You need to either use the command line, run box or a program shortcut if you want to run a software program with parameters in Windows. All of these options are not […]

Robocopy GUI

The standard functionality to copy files and folders in Windows is severely limited. It might work fine for casual users but if you ever tried to copy a large amount of data […]

Change The Default Email Client In Firefox

Many Firefox users do not know that they can change the default email client in the web browser easily. What even fewer know is that it is even possible to not only […]

Benefits of Programming in Ruby

There are several programming languages that to-be programmers (or current programmers) can choose from. For first-time programmers, choosing a programming language can be difficult. There are many programming languages that are dying […]

Linux console RSS reader Snownews

I read a lot of news. One of the many ways I read news is via RSS feeds. If you don't know, RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. What an RSS reader […]

Archos 9 Tablet

Archos has been known for making tablets for ages, but recently they have been turning heads with their talks about contributing something to the Android iniciative as well as working on a […]

Windows Software To Create Multiple Folders At Once

There probably are not a lot of users of the Windows operating system who need to create thousands of folders in short time. If you are one of them you can automate […]

Microsoft Outlook Mail Attachment Recovery

Most Outlook users think that an email attachment is gone when they delete it in the email client. Only a few know that Microsoft Outlook saves attachments that are considered safe in […]

Firefox Form Data Recovery

Lazarus Form Recovery is a free add-on for the Firefox web browser that saves form data periodically for recovery purposes. Have you ever experienced a situation where you finished typing text in […]

Claws Mail: Must-have plugins

My last article "Claws Mail: The unsung powerhouse email client" introduced you to an email client you probably had never heard before. If you are a power-user, you will find its many […]

Grab Your Free Copy of East-Tec Backup 2009

A banner on the homepage of the popular download portal Softpedia announces the giveaway of East-Tec Backup 2009 until July 31. The backup software, which retails for $40, can be downloaded and […]

Create Photo Maps With 93 Photo Street

Many people who like to travel are taking photos of the locations they visit. The photos are then usually added to photo albums along with stuff that was bought or taken on […]

Trout Is A Lightweight Free Music Player

Trout is a lightweight free music player by Donation coder member Skwire. It was born out of one of the coding challenges and has since then evolved into a music player packed […]