Software Virtualization With SafeSpace

Software virtualization is a clever security concept that puts certain applications and files in something that can be described as a virtual room where they cannot harm the underlying system. The benefits […]

Display Information About Computer Monitors

It's sometimes important to know when specific computer monitors have been manufactured because they, like every other computer components, are revised from time to time which may improve monitor quality. Monitor Info […]

Cathy A Fast Portable Disk Catalog Software

I'm currently testing disk catalog software programs as you might have guessed already. Cathy is the second that I'm going to write a review about. The first disk catalog software was Visual […]

Download And Use Wikipedia Offline With Firefox

Update: Zipedia is no longer available. The add-on has been pulled from the Mozilla Add-ons repository and the official homepage seems to have received the last update in 2008. We suggest you […]

Disk Catalog Software Visual CD

Where did I backup that file again? If you have asked yourself this or a similar question you might need a Disk Catalog Software which keeps a record of the contents on […]

Completely Ridiculous Radiohead Music Experiment

Am I alone in thinking these new shock horror reports about Radioheads’ online music experiment are completely ridiculous? PaidContent today picked up on a story by Big Champaign, a company which monitors […]

Yahoo, sick of them yet?

The Yahoo-Microsoft-Ichan soap opera got pretty damn annoying for a while there. In fact It wasn’t even so much Yahoo and Microsoft, it was billionaire investor Ichan who really made it all […]

Text Highlighter For Firefox

Wired-Marker is a text highlighter add-on for Firefox that can mark selected text in different colors just like a marker would with text on paper.Doing so can be useful if you are […]

Default To Doc in Word 2007

It seems that Lifehacker is having Ghacks week which I personally do not mind but the amount of articles that they referred to is large to say the least. You may know […]

Imo.im Adds Skype And MySpace Support

Imo.im offers a way to connect to various Instant Messengers using their website or a client that can be downloaded and is currently available for Windows. Supported are many popular Instant Messenger […]

Easier Way To Download Protected Photos At Flickr

A Flickr user can decided to protect the photos uploaded to the site, which has the effect that the a user who is trying to download a protected photo will end up […]

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Whitelist Bookmarks In Adblock Plus

Adblock Plus is a Firefox add-on (Update: now also available for other browsers such as Google Chrome) that blocks advertisement, and sometimes other elements, on websites. It supports black- and whitelists and […]

Internet Explorer 7 Tweak Utility

The IE7 Tweak Utility is a portable software program that allows you to change a few settings in Internet Explorer 7 that cannot be changed directly in the browser. I assume they […]

Upload Files To Multiple File Hosts

I'm not that sure why someone would want to upload files to multiple file hosts unless it was for questionable or backup purposes. But I'm not in the position to question motives […]

Zoundry Raven portable Blog Editor

I was never that fond of blog editors that allowed you to write your posts on the desktop and send them to your blog after you have finished them. Never quite saw […]

Cuil

I can’t fully understand some of the decisions behind the launch of Cuil, the wanna-be Google Killer. I also don’t quite understand the amount of hype and media attention that went with […]

Searching Faces at FaceSaerch

Yes that is no type there in the title of this article. The website FaceSaerch offers a face search interface and search engine that displays pictures of people that it found while […]

PDF Image Extractor

The easiest way to extract images out of pdf documents is to use a software that can do that for you. I sometimes use a screenshot software to save a single image […]

Free Download Manager

Free Download Manager is one of the top download managers for Windows. That's my verdict after using it for a while on my new computer. I came across that download manager before […]

WikiTaxi Takes Wikipedia Offline

WikiTaxi takes Wikipedia offline by processing Wikipedia backups and providing a browser like experience. It works by downloading the article backup of the selected language from Wikipedia and importing that backup into […]

Customs Proofing A Laptop

I Discovered the article Security guide to customs-proofing your laptop over at Cnet and thought it would be worth sharing it. It does not really add anything new to the discussion and […]

Hide And View Private Websites At Work

If you visit private websites, those that are not related to your work, at your workplace you have to be careful. Most companies will react on private web surfing which could lead […]

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Synchronize Contacts Between Thunderbird And Gmail

If you use both the email client Mozilla Thunderbird and Google Mail (Gmail) you may need a way to keep both address books in sync so that they can be accessed from […]

Simple Torrent Searching with Speckly

With all the new fangled torrent search engines available out there, it's easy for new users to BitTorrent to get confused. After all, learning how the software works can be hard enough […]

Winamp Auto Tagger

Winamp has been one of the applications in the past that belonged to a set of software programs that I installed automatically after setting up a new operating system. This has changed […]

Kwippy Invites

While I do have Twitter, Facebook and several other accounts I barely use them and cannot see a real gain for using them extensively. Quite the opposite. Still, I was invited by […]

Coccinella Chat Client With Whiteboard

Coccinella is an interesting chat client that brings new features and lots of customization to the table. If you want to compete in the Instant Messenger market you either need backing of […]

Griffith Multi-Plattform Movie Collection Manager

Keeping an overview of a (digital) media collection can be quite hard depending on the amount of media that you own. Griffith provides a comfortable solution for movie collectors. Adding movies to […]

Display System Information On The Desktop

If you want to check system settings in Windows, you either have to dig deep into the operating system, use widgets to display them in the sidebar, or run other applications that […]

Improve Skype Sound Quality

If you are experiencing a bad sound quality in the voice over IP software skype you might want to try the following. This can be a quite complex problem but one thing […]

Free A-Squared Anti-Malware

The Giveaway of the Day website is offering some very nice software packages from time to time. Today's offer is A-Squared Anti-Malware in version 3.5 from Emsisoft which can be freely downloaded […]

Music Assistant Helps Tune Your Instruments

Music Assistant is a great tool that can help musicians doing two things that they probably do on a daily basis. The first is helping them tune their instrument while the second […]

Torn between Pidgin and Digsby

I’ve been a longtime Digsby advocate all the way back to the private alpha stage of development. Given the growing number of social networks, chat addresses and email accounts I had I […]

New Phishing Emails Emerge

The usual phishing email still claims that "action" is required because of something that just happened. This can be a fake eBay purchase, PayPal transfer, a bank account transaction or someone offering […]

New Attack: Combine Files With Jar Scripts

A new attack, dubbed Gifar by their creators named after the two file types that they mixed to create the attack (Gif and Jar), was mentioned in a Black Hat Sneak Preview […]

Skinnable Volume Controller 3RVX

Some users willingly give up Megabytes of RAM to skin and beautify their system. One area that is often overlooked is the volume controller. The software 3RVX (via Shell Extension City) tries […]

Check If Your DNS Is Vulnerable

Humans are not good with numbers. At least not many are. That's why the DNS, the Domain Name System, is in place. It translates the addresses that we enter in the browser […]

Flickr Metadata Synchr

Flickr Metadata Synchr provides an easy way to keep the metadata of local images and the images that have been uploaded to Flickr in sync. The software can check if a local […]

Why Can't I Uninstall the Microsoft .net Framework?

I lately tried to uninstall the Microsoft .net Framework 2.0 from my system only to find out that I could not do it. The uninstallation program told me that other applications installed […]

Essential PIM

Personal organisers are a dime a dozen but I’m yet to find one which full meets my requirements. For some time however I did use Essential PIM and found it a good […]