Fake virus alerts are a common yet dangerous weapon often used by cybercriminals. These alerts masquerade themselves as legitimate security warnings, tricking users into actions that end up compromising their own digital […]
Tech savvy Windows users love Sysinternals applications. That's a given fact and you barely stumble upon someone who has not at least one or two of the software programs created by Sysinternals […]
The download manager of the Firefox web browser is not displaying many information by default. Only the name and size of the file, the time and the main domain it was downloaded […]
Windows Explorer is not one of the most sophisticated file explorers available for the Windows operating system. It is, however, the default file explorer for the Windows operating system and many Windows […]
You might remember the survey that Google conducted in New York a while back asking random people passing by what a web browser is. It was not that surprising, at least for […]
The Linux operating system has a really nice tool for testing and optimizing your hard drive. This tool is called hdparm and can work with both IDE and ATA drives. NOTE: hdparm […]
Google's latest changes to the company's search engine were not welcome by all users. The increase of the font size was a shock to many who used to work with the same […]
One of the best software programs to convert video files to DVD is the commercial Convert X To DVD which we introduced during our Christmas Giveaway last year. The program is super […]
If you perform a Google search nowadays you get mixed search results. Google not only displays the first ten pages that is has in its index for the entered keyword but also […]
It is time to update the phishing protection article that we published some time ago (see Phishing explained) with the recent news that thousands of Hotmail users (and apparently Gmail users as […]
Of all the Linux distributions, the consensus is beginning to become clear that Ubuntu is, hands down, the most user friendly of the Linux distributions. Naturally there are people that claim other […]
Price comparison is one of the essentials things that Internet users should do before buying a product on the Internet or locally It does not matter if they do compare prices manually […]
There are two options basically to protect computer systems (and thus users) from phishing attacks. The first type refers to protections in programs like email clients or instant messaging services that are […]
Remote Reboot X has been initially developed by Doug Zuckerman to remotely control the reboot process of multiple computer systems in an effort to automate the monthly maintenance schedule of more than […]
If you open a Microsoft Word document you will notice that it will always open the first page of the document no matter if it is a new document or one that […]
Recently I previewed the up and coming release of Ubuntu, Karmic Koala ("Ubuntu Karmic Koala Preview".) In that article I covered some of the new features in the upcoming release. Once of […]
Microsoft confirmed recently that thousands of Windows Live Hotmail customer's credentials were exposed on a third-party website. According to Neowin, the account information was posted by an anonymous user at the Pastebin […]
Matt's System Helper Outer has been developed to make it a tad easier to issue all those console commands in Windows. The program is basically a graphical user interface for several of […]
Auto Kill Any Process has been designed to batch kill running processes in Windows. Why would someone want to do that? There are actually a few reasons where this functionality might come […]
Xoopit, a company that was bought by Yahoo not long ago, developed email indexing and photo sharing technologies that have since then be integrated into Yahoo Mail. Gmail users, among others, were […]
Many online services do not offer the means to backup data locally. Users who want to backup data are usually left with a tedious manual process (like downloading pictures or videos one […]
Google Chrome's fullscreen mode is similar to that of other popular web browsers. It will limit the web browser controls and interface, and maximize the web browser window at the same time […]
If you've been following the Ubuntu release cycle you know that the .10 release is forth coming. Slated to hit the bandwidth October 29th, 2009, 9.10 promises to have quite a number […]
People who learned English as their second language usually make different mistakes than English natives. This can be attributed to a number of factors with the differences between their native language and […]
Twitter can be an excellent source for trend analysis. Twitter itself displays several popular topics on its frontpage which are sorted by minute, day and week. It does become more difficulty to […]
Cross-site Request Forgery attacks are carried out from a computer system or user that is trusted by a website. Cookies that do not expire after a user closes the website or web […]
Microsoft's upcoming operating system Windows 7 uses Direct Show filters to decode several audio and video formats. Direct Show is being used by several multimedia applications like Windows Media Player or Media […]
Security. Ah, security. It's the make or break for administrators on so many levels. For the Linux operating system you could go in so many directions with your security. You could go […]
The Mozilla Firefox development team started to check the Flash plugin version of Firefox web browsers on the What's New page after Firefox updates recently. This page would inform users if the […]
Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser is tightly integrated into the Windows operating system. This makes it an important software program even if the users of the system do not use it as […]
If you are looking for an easy to use reliable backup solution for Windows you may want to take a closer look at Yadis! Backup. The Windows backup software divides backup jobs […]
Some of you may wonder why I'm writing about the topic again after having published two articles Microsoft Security Essentials Final Announced and Microsoft Security Essentials Final Available about it recently. The […]
Readers who are paying attention to the development of the Firefox web browser may have already seen first design mockups of future Firefox versions. While these mockups can be subject to change […]
The Data Liberation Front is Google's attempt at making it easier for users to export data out of Google products. Here are a few scenarios where it might make sense to export […]
Let's face it, sometimes it's just too hard to get work done with so many distractions coming at you on your computer. Email, youtube, facebook, shopping - it all adds up to […]
The Windows print screen key will copy the complete screen to the Windows clipboard whenever it is pressed by the user. Many users install programs that give them more control over the […]
One of the latest trends in the search engine market seem to be custom search options, search filters and specialized search parameters. Google has introduced the search options in the main Google […]
New software uninstallers have to not only compete with the default Windows uninstallation module but also with advanced uninstallers like Revo Uninstaller which not only uninstall the software but also scan and […]
According to many advanced users, file management is one of the key areas that the Windows operating system needs to be improved in. Microsoft introduced only a handful of features to file […]
Most security software programs that are available these days provide protection against rootkits as well. There are on the other hand a few security programs that deal solely with rootkits. One of […]
Are you a fan of Arena (and Arena-like games)? Do you long to play these games on your Linux box? Are you one of those that proclaims that Linux can not and […]
