May 11th, 2012
Here’s a new Firefox feature that you’ll either love or hate …
In their effort to do away with all extra windows in the Firefox web browser, Mozilla has landed in-content preferences in the latest Firefox Nightly builds. What this basically does is move the preferences, which previously were displayed in a preferences window, into their own options tab in the browser when they are opened by a user. This is pretty much the same way Chrome handles its preferences, and while it does not sound like too bad of a feature to begin with, its current stage leaves something to be desired. More about that later.
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Tags: chrome, firefox, In-Content Preferences, mozilla
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May 11th, 2012
If you’ve noticed that Facebook or Grooveshark aren’t behaving the way that they used to, this might explain why:
If you have been one of the five hundred thousand or so Grooveshark app user over at Facebook, you may have noticed that the app is not working anymore. Or, maybe you are one of the users who used a Facebook account to log in to the account at the Grooveshark website. Then, you also may have noticed that the login is not working anymore.
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Tags: copyright infringement, facebook, Grooveshark, login
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May 10th, 2012
This looks like a handy tool for Windows users who need to custom tailor the Windows interface to fit their computing needs …
The program formerly known as Windows 7 Tweaker is no more, it is now known as Windows Tweaker. Its developer has just released version 4.0 of the software that Windows users can use to tweak certain features and parameters of their operating system. Windows Tweaker 4.0 supports all client side Windows systems from Windows XP up to the soon to be released Windows 8.
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Tags: microsoft, windows, Windows Explorer, Windows Tweeker
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May 10th, 2012
When you add those 20 seconds of unskippable warnings to the five or ten minutes worth of unskippable ads at the beginning of a DVD, the pirated stuff starts looking better and better all the time.
If you are living in the United States, and like to watch a movie from time to time, you are in for a new treat courtesy of the government, the FBI, ICE, and six major movie studios. According to an Ars Technica, new movies will soon carry two unskippable government warnings, that legit buyers will have to look at before they can actually start watching the movie.
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Tags: copyright, entertainment industry suicide, pirated media, pointless warnings
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May 9th, 2012
Here’s some good news for Firefox users …
When it comes to the Firefox web browser, add-ons are without doubt one of the most important feature that are making the browser attractive to a lot of users. It is in fact still a feature that is setting the browser apart from other web browsers, be it Opera or Chrome. Add-ons can however also cause issues for users of the browser, especially when it comes to memory leaks.
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Tags: add-on, firefox, memory, mozilla
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May 9th, 2012
A new month, and a new batch of Microsoft Security bulletins … several of these sound pretty important.
It is patch Tuesday in Redmond, and Microsoft has just made available a new batch of security related patches for some of their software products. The majority of security bulletins fix issues in the Microsoft Windows operating system and Microsoft Office, while some address issues in the Microsoft .Net Framework and Microsoft Silverlight.
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Tags: microsoft, Microsoft Word, microsoft-office, security, windows
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May 8th, 2012
The “Cinetonic” and “Convert YouTube to MP3″ add-ons both sound pretty cool, but I bet that MP3 conversion add-on will make the folks at YouTube nervous …
Add-ons are one of the features that make the Firefox web browser great. Add-on developers update and create add-ons on a regular basis, and it has become quite time consuming to stay in the loop when it comes to new and exciting add-ons for the browser because of this.
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Tags: add-ons, firefox, mozilla, youtube
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May 8th, 2012
The “View Traffic” feature looks like a useful feature; all in all though, it doesn’t seem all that different from Google Maps …
With the recent Bing redesign came a new design for Bing Maps which more or less slipped by unnoticed. The main idea behind the redesign was to improve search by removing features, links and design elements that were in the way of the searcher, or not used enough to justify keeping them on the page.
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Tags: bing, maps, search engine, traffic
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May 7th, 2012
Here’s an app that might come in handy for those who rely on Microsoft for PC support.
Microsoft Fix It Center Pro is a web application for Windows Live users that is aiding users in the identification and troubleshooting of PC issues. Windows users should not confuse the service with Fix It Center Online, which is in fact a desktop application for Windows that can analyze and repair computer issues.
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Tags: Fix It Center Pro, microsoft, support, Support Requests
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May 7th, 2012
I wonder why Facebook almost never offers the option to disable functions like this, just for the sake of those who are concerned about privacy?
Facebook is currently rolling out an update for its Facebook Messenger apps for iOS and Android, that is bringing new features to the clients that will surely cause some controversy. One of the new features are read confirmations, that Facebook users see right underneath messages that have have sent out to friends or groups.
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Tags: facebook, location, privacy, read confirmation
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