There are several programs that may start up when your Ubuntu computer starts. Many of these programs are not needed. You can turn these off by going to “System, Preferences and Startup Applications”. You can turn off some of these but first you must know which applications do not have to start up so I [...]
Archive for March, 2010
This is not only glorious but it’s fantasmical. A huge choir but no one was in the same room and it’s crazy nuts good. You must see the large version.
Windows 7 is a great OS but a lot of essential software was left out on purpose to keep the basic install streamline. There is no email program like “Outlook Express”. No “Windows Movie Maker”. Frankly, I don’t use either of these but if you needed them you can get these and a whole lot [...]
Copy DVDs To Your Harddrive
Posted: March 22, 2010 in SecurityTags: digital-media, DVD, Handbrake, media, movie
I should say “Copy Your DVDs To Your Hardrive” with Handbrake. I downloaded Handbreak to copy a non-commercial DVD to my harddrive. You can copy protected DVDs to your harddrive as well with a little extra effort. I can’t tell you how to do this because the “Digital Millenium Copyright Act” make telling you illegal [...]
I’m sure you guys have ran across this or at least heard of it. Malware disguising itself as an anti-malware program and asking for money to fix your computer. Here’s a picture of the most realistic one yet.
Personal Software Inspector
Posted: March 18, 2010 in SoftwareTags: inspector, PSI, Secunia, Software, updates, Windows
The Personsl Software Inspector by Secunia will check to see if you have critical software out of date and will prompt you to install the new version. I have a very up to date system but I install Secunia PSI and ran it. After a couple of minutes it found that my Skype
had a
Favorite Firefox Extentions
Posted: March 14, 2010 in SoftwareTags: browser, extentions, Firefox, opensource, plugins, web browser
I love the Firefox web-browser. One of things I like the most about Firefox are the extentions. Here are some of our favorites: FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. 1-Click YouTube Video Download – Download YouTube in a single click. Download [...]
This is a tip from Paul Thurrott‘s Supersite for Windows. You may know the keyboard shortcut for Internet Explorer start fullscreen mode is F11. What you don’t know is the same shortcut works in for Windows Explorer and other applications. Many other shortcuts work as well. I’ll let Paul tell you more about it.
Record, play, share, embed even stream live video with your mobile phone using Qik. Qik is a website and application that captures video with you phone to save share an view your videos from the Qik website or any site you embed the the Qik embed code. The incredible thing about it is that you [...]
Gmail Tip
Posted: March 9, 2010 in GoogleTags: email, Gmail, Google, lifehacker, POP, refresh, tip, web 2.0
The email from all of my account goes to Gmail so I have to go to different sites or open and email program. I go to Gmail and it’s all there. See Lifehacker. But that’s not the tip! Google does not check your POP account frequently so you may have your Gmail open but your [...]
