Comodo System Cleaner is a computer cleanup tool that combines the functionality of registry cleaners, disk cleaners and privacy cleaners in one application. The software can be used to scan the registry […]
Mail Cure is a portable software application for the Windows operating system that has been designed to recover accidentally deleted email messages. Mail Cure does not only look for existing mail databases […]
No Sleep is a free portable program for Microsoft Windows computer systems that prevents external hard drives from entering sleep mode. Some external hard drives make use of a hard coded sleep […]
It may sound like we've stepped back to Computers 101, but copy and pasting in Linux can sometimes be a bit different than it is in either Windows or Mac. The good […]
Polyglot 3000 is a free program for Microsoft Windows that will identify the language of text that you type or paste in its interface. Did it happen to you that you have […]
System Explorer is an advanced Windows Task Manager replacement program that comes both as a portable and installer version. It displays all the relevant information that the default Windows Task Manager displays, […]
Sometimes email contains sensitive data which must be encrypted. You can handle this two ways, manually encrypt the data or use an exceptional Thunderbird Extension called Enigmail. This extension uses gpg and […]
Newt is a network monitoring software similar to the previously mentioned network monitoring software Networx or Look@Lan. The network monitor uses a multi-threaded scanning engine that scans all remote computer systems and […]
Spyme Tools is a free installation monitor for Windows that logs system changes that software installations make. Many software programs have to be installed on a computer system before they can be […]
HP's USB Disk Storage Format Tool is a free program for Windows that you may use to make USB devices like Flash Drives bootable. There is no direct way to make USB […]
Update: Please note that the original extension is not available anymore. We suggest that you use Facepaste instead. It is also available for Firefox. After you have installed Facepaste in Firefox and […]
Mozilla Firefox is a complete web browser. Its extensions, user generated add-ons for the web browser, heave it to the next level and make it a browser that sticks out of the […]
There is definitely no shortcomings when it comes to chat possibilities on the Internet. Users who want to chat find billions of options from using Instant Messengers over email to forums and […]
Last year, the German Wikipedia was printed. Now, many Wikipedias worldwide – including the English Wikipedia – has given people the opportunity to compile a book of Wikipedia articles which can then […]
Sometimes, you may urgently need to share information with a friend or family member. Or maybe you need to access a particular file from another computer. The easiest way to do this […]
While I'm overall pretty happy with the purchase of the OCZ Core Series II SATA Solid State Drive some disadvantages do come to light every now and then. This happens in situations […]
With all the social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and the million others out there it becomes very easy to tell the world about yourself. What many users of those social networks […]
Mobile Internet Access has seen a huge rise in the last years with the advent of netbooks and other mobile devices that have been primarily designed for Internet access. While most mobile […]
There are a number of reasons you would need to an archive. You might need to create backup archives of files, or you might want to be able to store project files […]
Konolive is a free group collaboration software for the Adobe Air platform. It has many similarities to Instant Messengers at first glance like the IM-like interface or the ability to add and […]
Up until recently there was not a single add-on available for the Mozilla Firefox 3 web browser that would check the bookmarks for invalid or duplicate entries. Several add-ons existed that were […]
Live Mesh Beta is a online file synchronization service based on Microsoft's Live platform. The service is comparable to other file synchronization services like Dropbox. In its current stage only computers running […]
I administer a LOT of Linux systems. Most of those systems information are in a file I keep that tells me what their passwords are. I normally either do not forget a […]
ScanDir is a free directory lists manager for the Windows operating system. At its core stands a GUI powered search engine that performs incredible fast searches in selected directories or partitions of […]
One of our readers pointed out that the application that we reviewed a while back to anonymize iTunes songs had been down for a while. He suggested another method of getting rid […]
Accelerators are a new feature of Microsoft's upcoming web browser Internet Explorer 8 that have recently been ported to other web browsers like Firefox in the form of add-ons. Like the name […]
Previously I wrote about using GUI tools for Linux process management (Get To Know Linux: Process Management.) Both the GNOME and the KDE tools are outstanding, user-friendly solutions to an issue that […]
Maxto is a software program for the Windows operating system that can divide all connected computer monitor screens into different areas that act independently from each other. The effect is that windows […]
Many websites tend to be discontinued after a time. This can be extremely frustrating if that website did contain some valuable information that are not accessible in the same form anywhere on […]
The last article about Firefox's zoom capabilities received several interesting comments that discussed the zoom functionality of the browser. What many users who commented did not know was that the zooming behavior […]
If you use Windows than the three-finger salute Ctrl-Alt-Delete means quite a bit to you. You use it and, in some instances, you use it frequently. But if you are new to […]
I recently had two conversations with Firefox users who did not know that Firefox came with the means to zoom in and out of a website. They were using external applications to […]
Jellybean is not your usual wallpaper changer. That much becomes apparent after launching the application for the first time. The options to change wallpapers are limited to changing them manually in the […]
You might remember that I switched from web based rss readers to desktop rss readers some time ago. Reasons for that switch where manifold including performance issues but also security concerns. FeedDemon […]
Recently I installed the amazing desktop Elive Compiz. After getting it up and running I decided I needed to get some screencasts of the desktop in order to show off what it […]
QuickWiki is a handy experimental Firefox add-on for users who often use Wikipedia and Wiktionary either actively or as a resource to look things up on the Internet. The Firefox add-on adds […]
Of all the currently released Twitter screensavers Twitsaver is definitely one of the more interesting ones. Unlike Twitter Screensavers like Flitter or TwittEarth that concentrate on the locations and messages that are […]
oGet is an extension for the Opera 9 web browser that integrates 27 different download managers into the browser. It works similar to Flashgot, the popular download manager extension for Firefox, by […]
gHacks suggested Spotify as an alternative to Pandora last year, and Spotify has recently gained a lot of attention in the British press. I thought it may be wise to discuss Spotify […]
If you are a cautious user on the Internet you may want to find out as much as possible about sites that you are going to visit before actually visiting them. The […]
