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« Previous EntriesMake Gmail the default Firefox 3 Mail Client
Friday, August 1st, 2008If you rely on online mail clients such as Gmail then you might like the following tip coming directly from the official Gmail blog that describes how to to make Gmail the default Firefox 3 Mail client (i.e. the mail client that is loaded whenever a mailto link is clicked in Firefox 3.
You’ll need to [...]
10 Reasons Enterprises Aren’t Ready to Trust the Cloud
Thursday, July 31st, 2008from gigaom…. To summarise,
It’s not secure. Certain companies and industries have to maintain strict watch on their data at all times, either because they’re legally obligated to or because they’re super paranoid.
It can’t be logged, required for compliance purposes.
It’s not platform agnostic. If you need to support multiple platforms, as most enterprises do, then you’re [...]
Export the Feeds from a Google Reader Folder
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Most feed readers let you import and export subscriptions using the OPML format. For Google Reader, you find this option in Settings > Import/Export. But what happens if you want to export the feeds from a single folder so you can share them with a friend or upload them to a site? Google Reader [...]
More places to learn everything tech
Friday, July 25th, 2008from ghacks:
Tutorial Center
This one is indeed a center with pretty broad scale of issues dealt with in the wide selection of collected links to tutorials. It’s no use giving examples of categories since you can hardly think of any application that would be left out (at least of the best known ones). Submitted tutorials are [...]
Google Docs now have templates
Thursday, July 17th, 2008Google Documents now have templates
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Netlimiter Monitor application and network monitor
Monday, July 14th, 2008Netlimiter
2 Monitor displays all open processes and
applications on the system, showing incoming and outgoing
bandwidth along with ports, IP addresses and process numbers. A useful extra is the history function which applications connected to the Internet before on your system - you can use this to check whether an application is new to the list.
There’s [...]
FlexTK Windows File Management
Monday, July 14th, 2008From Download Squad:If you’re like us, your hard drive is anything but tidy. That’s because
us power users can’t be bothered to keep things organized - there are
just too many awesome things out there to download, extract, and forget
about because half of them turn out to be garbage.
FlexTK for Windows
helps make short work of cleaning up [...]
Windows Inspection Tool Set
Monday, July 7th, 2008Windows Inspection Tool Set is an open source utility that provides you with a series of tools for inspecting your Windows operating system. This includes information about your processor, BIOS, or RAM usage, how many processes you’re running, or how long it’s been since your last reboot.
WiTS also includes a task manager, a security manager [...]
Google Reader Easter Egg adds Functionality
Friday, June 13th, 2008 Google Reader contains what is, perhaps, the ultimate inside joke for geeks and gamers
As revealed by Blogoscope, if you enter the basic Konami Code (without “Start”) via your keyboard - Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A – your unread items will be reset to 30 and this lovable ninja will creep [...]
Monitor your hard drive usage in Windows
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 From Shell Extension City
DriveSpacio is a free Windows utility for examinging hard drive usage. When you first boot the program you’ll get a list of each hard drive and partition on your system, along with, some details like the files system, cluster size, and a pie chart or bar graph showing used and free [...]