13th May 2007

The best Thunderbird extensions available

More and more people seem to choose web mail over the good old traditional way of using a mail application on your PC, the increasing growth of space available on providers such as Gmail and Live Mail only proof this. It might be old school, but I’m still a fan of the old way. I’ve [...]

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27th April 2007

Let the Vista bashing begin – Yahoo News report on UAC

It took long enough this time, but finally it’s time; the Vista bashing on ‘big’ sites has begun. Now Vista has been on the market for a couple of months, more and more criticism is coming up related to Windows Vista’s new features, such as the firewall and the changes in user permissions.
The first article [...]

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26th April 2007

PKZip Returns in the form of SecureZIP

While back in the early 90’s – before my digital time began, so I’m relying on Wikipedia – the company PKWare was big their their software ‘PKZip’, one of the first command line zip programs that allowed you to save and compress multiple files into one.
However, when a lot of other programs were made with [...]

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26th April 2007

Launchy receives a little update – v1.25 released

It’s not exactly blogging or internet related, but still an amazing little application; Launchy! Everyone who has been working with a Macintosh lately knows the usefulness of ‘Quicksilver’, an application that will let you hit a command, type in a couple of characters and instantly open the applications or documents found, all in a matter [...]

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26th April 2007

RemotePC upgrades their software – Share the sessions!

RemotePC, a company that is pretty known for there tons of online advertisements for their remote access software, has brought out a new revision of their software. With this new version, one quite some people have been waiting for – such as me – quite a lot of new functions and features have been added.
One [...]

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24th April 2007

SecureZIP – A worthy ZIP alternative?

While generally speaking I’m no fan of changes, not in homes, not in rooms and definitely not in terms of software, the company ‘SecureZIP’ is now offering a pretty interesting limited download offer. Their ZIP-application will allow you to do much of the same other zip programs do.
However, as the company also comes with the [...]

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23rd April 2007

OpenDNS offering custom DNS entries

After a little moment of slience, OpenDNS has managed to get their alternative DNS services into the news again, this time even News.com. For those who haven’t read my older post about them, explaining how it works – OpenDNS is an alternative for the ‘good old’ way of resolving domain names to ip’s, using their [...]

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20th April 2007

Todays hottest download: Ubuntu 7.04 for all platforms

Yesterday was a good day, a wonderful day, an important day. You might ask yourself; ‘why!?’, but then again, after reading the title it should be pretty clear: A new version of the popular Debian-based linux distribution ‘Ubuntu’ has been released, featuring tons of fixes and new functionality.
As you must’ve seen already, Microsoft launched ‘Windows [...]

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18th April 2007

Easy online backups – saving the world, one computer at a time

IDrive is back and ideological again! This company, specialized in online backup systems and services, has launched the latest version of both their advertisement campaign as well as their software. With their latest IDrive-E, you can backup your hard drive, documents or any specific file or folder in no-time.
One other very interesting point of this [...]

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16th April 2007

Debian 4 has been released, upgrade your sandboxes and servers now!

Unless you’re not much into tech related websites, you most likely have already heard about the new release of Debian linux a couple of days ago. This release is considered stable and it’s recommended to upgrade, support for version 3.1 will stop relatively soon. Besides this it’s also nice to stay a little up to [...]

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