Posts Tagged ‘Software’

Google Sync extends all of your extensions, bookmarks and settings to all of the Chrome browsers on all of your computers. This feature alone really make Chrome shine.

Firefox 4 Beta

Posted: January 1, 2011 in Software
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I’ve just been checking out the Firefox 4 Beta. I must say I’m pretty impressed! It’s really fast and it is much lighter with the system resources. Firefox 4 Beta does a really good job rendering HTML5 stuff.

Wave Is Saved

Posted: November 26, 2010 in Google
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The former project from Google called “Wave” may have been resurrected. The benefactor is the opensouce advocates the “Apache Software Foundation“. Apache is calling it WIAB (Wave In A box). You will be able to install Wave on a server of your own so you and your collaborators can work on projects together via Wave. [...]

Secunia PSI

Posted: November 19, 2010 in Security
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The Secunia PSI is a FREE security tool designed to detect vulnerable and out-dated programs and plug-ins which expose your PC to attacks. The only way to avoid these attacks is to always keep your software up to date. Windows Update does this for your Windows operating system but what does it for the rest [...]

Microsoft’s very good security suite “Security Essentials” will now be offered in Windows Updates. This is a great step forward in making this very good and free antivirus available to everyone not just to the geeks how know where to find it.

Programmer extraordinaire and Lifehacker founder Gina Trapani and Leo Laporte talk about Lastpass the incredible cloud based password manger.

Ubuntu Beta

Posted: September 3, 2010 in Software
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The new Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerka is in Beta now and will be released October 10, 2010. I have not tried it (because I hardly do Betas anymore) but it is said to have many great features. Besides the usual updates, there’s a new photo manager, improved multimedia controls, better Ubuntu One syncing, and more. [...]

Google Wave Lives On, Sort Of?

Posted: September 3, 2010 in Google
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Google has announced despite there recent demise of the Google app Wave they would now let it be open-source and allow anyone to runĀ  the application on a server of their own. This experience would not be the same as the original Google app. It will not be the same universal application experience as before. [...]

Microsoft Technet

Posted: April 11, 2010 in Tips
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Download all an use all of Microsoft’s software and use it forever without time limits or feature limits. You can download anything Windows Server, Microsoft Office, SQL Server, Windows 7 and everything else.

recordMyDesktop

Posted: April 2, 2010 in Software
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recordMyDesktop is a opensource desktop session recorder. It records everything you do on your desktop. It is very simple to use, much easier than Jing for Windows and Mac. Basically you select the region of the screen that you want to record and press record. When you finished recording press stop and wait for it [...]