Only Microsoft Outlook 2007 has the functionality to manage and display RSS feeds right in the email client. Previous versions of Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express do not provide the means to […]
Recording audio on a computer system does not have to be complicated. You could use the basic sound recorders that come with the operating system but they are usually rather limited. PCWin […]
Quttera is not your usual computer virus protection program. It will only protect the computer from viruses spread in multimedia or data files including but not limited to audio, video or text […]
Greasemonkey is a browser extension for Mozilla Firefox which can run so called userscripts that can change elements and information on websites in real-time. Some prime examples include link checkers, removing elements […]
If you visit Youtube you might have noticed the "watch in high quality" link beneath some videos on the video portal. The high quality link leads to a video with a better […]
I realize that I may not know enough, but does Windows 7 offer any radically different stuff? I mean I am one of the few people who likes Vista, but how exactly […]
The idea of Faroo is simple. Faroo uses P2P technology to crawl the World Wide Web instead of using an infrastructure with thousands of servers and worldwide datacenters. If you think about […]
Ubuntu is now the most prominent Linux distribution perhaps due to its philosophy of creating 'â€Linux for humans†and targeting the consumer first and foremost. With a regular 6 monthly release Ubuntu […]
Living in the United Kingdom surely has its bright sides: you got the IT Crowd, Cider and James Bond. On the downside, British government officials have been known for their lax data […]
The default Windows Task Manager provides a good quick overview of the running processes of a computer system but it fails to deliver the information needed to analyze a process. The Task […]
Microsoft announced it’s latest lineup of Zune products to a fairly underwhelming response, which was frankly also fairly well expected. It’s easy to get cynical about the Zune, especially considering Microsoft’s promises […]
TV Series Papercraft can be seen as an addition to the Cubeecraft Papercraft series. Papercrafts are little toys that come on paper. They have to be printed, cut out and assembled which […]
Keeping track of all the different user accounts, passwords, security questions and emails associated with them is quite a daring task. Some users create all accounts with the same data, while others […]
The fact that Google Chrome is sending information about anything that the user types into the Google Chrome Omnibox seems to have caused quite a stir on the Internet with reports about […]
If Hurricane Season has a meaning for you you might be living in an area that is seeing its fair share of hurricanes and tropical storms. One of the most important cautionary […]
Windows Live is rapidly maturing into a very real and competitive set of products. Each individual service isn’t the best solution, excluding Windows Live Writer perhaps, but it does have a huge […]
The time would eventually come that Mozilla would remind Firefox 2 users that a new version of the web browser has been released. Mozilla released Firefox 3 some months ago in 2008. […]
I have been working with the WordPress script that powers this blog and several of my other websites for almost three years now and can say that the overall experience is quite […]
The Orca Browser is based on the Firefox 3 core but adds lots of unique features and options to it that Firefox does not support. The first thing that you notice after […]
I had a rather unpleasant experience with PayPal lately where someone transferred all the money from my account. PayPal was not very forthcoming and I do not know until today how this […]
I was not very pleased with the guys who decided to publish the songs that they were listening to in public IRC channels back in the days when I was using IRC […]
Hardly anybody does without English nowadays, especially when dealing with tech stuff, and it's therefore quite a good idea to at least keep it up or possibly even elevate your current language […]
My Last Search is a Nirsoft application that scans the computer for information about searches that have been done in the two popular browsers Internet Explorer and Firefox. This is done by […]
A security vulnerability came to light recently that affects Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7 and even Internet Explorer 8 that can be exploited to record keystrokes users even when that user […]
Glassdoor is a very new service founded by Robert Hohman and Rich Barton. They had worked at a number of large corporations including Microsoft and had previously founded successful companies themselves such […]
I’m not a big user of social networking sites for a very simple reason: I simply don’t have the time. The little time I spend at home can definitely be better utilized […]
We have already seen the release of the new Opera 9.5 client and will see the release of Firefox 3 on Tuesday and Internet Explorer 8 later this year. The interesting aspect […]
Microsoft Task Market is a new service by Microsoft that copies established services like Get A Freelancer. Task Market brings Task Posters and Task Solvers together. Task Posters are users who need […]
Artist Erik Nordenankar had an interesting idea for a self portrait. He would send a GPS device around the world to specified coordinates to draw the largest image the world has ever […]
One form of data mining is behavioral targeting which means that ads are served that fit into the surfing pattern of a user. Spending your time on teen forums will deliver advertisement […]
Windows 7 News posted an interesting video about some of the upcoming features in Microsoft's next operating system Windows 7. The video is showing some of the new features that have already […]
I'm slowly changing my view on several aspects of my "geeky" life. I used to jump on bandwagons as soon as someone started reporting about the latest evil scheme of a big […]
The Opera team has finally revealed the missing pieces of the puzzle and explained in an email what Opera Dragonfly is. In short, Opera Dragonfly is a web developers tool that gives […]
There were basically two editions of Windows XP for home users, namely Home and Professional. While this was confusing for some it turned out to be a minor problem. When0 Vista launched, […]
This is the final month of my Building a PC series that details the components that I will purchase for my new computer. To be able to compare components and prices I […]
While I'm not someone that likes transparent windows, I can acknowledge that some users might find transparency pretty useful. Blend is a tiny Windows application that can deliver transparency for all or […]
I'm sometimes amazed by new Firefox extensions that get developed. One of those that surely has its uses is the Firefox iPhone Emulator extension which is currently an experimental build. Don't expect […]
I have to admit that I'm not much of a designer and that I have to rely on friends and people I pay to deliver designs for my websites. I mainly use […]
A colleague of mine build a static html website a few years ago. He slowly but steadily created hundreds of html pages which was great for him because he could simply use one already finished file as a template for a new one. It did however pose a problem as well. Updating information across all files was very time consuming. Think of extending the copyright notice each year, adding advertisement to the websites or changing the navigation.
McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008 retails for $39.99 for a one year license normally but you can get it for free for a limited time. It runs on computers with Windows 2000 or newer Microsoft operating systems including Windows Vista and protects your system from various threats such as spyware, viruses, trojans and phishing.
