Keeping your computer—including its operating system and all the installed third-party software—up to date is extremely important, but it needn’t be a hassle or inconvenience. Here’s a look at three tools you can use regularly to keep your system current.
The Windows operating system and all the software we use on it are constantly evolving, due [...]
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The Definitive Guide to Keeping Your PC Up to Date – Updates – Lifehacker
SharedMinds Desktop (Preview) | bSix12 – By Rainer Falle
By Rainer Falle on September 25, 2009 – 11:25 am
With SharedMinds Desktop you can browse though all your tweets quickly and show links, user profiles and twitter search results right there in the same application. This will make you more productive and enhance your Twitter experience.
It has unique features like a powerful view engine, an [...]
Web browser choice matters – Mozilla Links
By Percy Cabello
Our lives are full of choices. Where to eat? What to read? Who to spend time with?
The choices we make determine the quality of our life, and how we see the world. So many of these choices we take quite seriously, weighing the consequences, thinking about the implications, and choosing carefully and thoughtfully.
So [...]
Browser Speed Tests: Firefox 3.6, Chrome 4, Opera 10.5, and Extensions – Browser speed tests – Lifehacker
Firefox 3.6 is out, Chrome’s stable version got a big upgrade, and Opera 10.5 is inching toward release. It’s a great time for us to break out the timer, process manager, and code tracker for some up-to-date browser speed tests.
via Browser Speed Tests: Firefox 3.6, Chrome 4, Opera 10.5, and Extensions – Browser speed tests [...]
How to Put Your PC to Good Use While You’re Sleeping – Automation – Lifehacker
The great part about your computer is that—unlike you—it doesn’t require any sleep. Take advantage of your PC’s insomnia by automating time- and processor-intensive tasks while you’re counting sheep.
Note: We’re all for powering down your PC to save energy overnight, but you can easily schedule your computer to shut down at specific times using several [...]
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One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Everybody uses the Web differently, so why should your browser be exactly like the next person’s? Firefox has more than 6,000 add-ons to help you customize it to your exact needs, plus thousands of Personas to instantly change the way it looks.
View all personalization features.
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French government also warns Internet Explorer users – Mozilla Links
Just like the German government did last week, the French government via the National Information Systems Security Agency (Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information) has also issued an alert, recommending users to switch to another web browser regarding an Internet Explorer’s vulnerability that was exploited to hack Google servers in China.
Here’s a translated [...]
Solid Color Backgrounds Cause 30 Second Login Delays | Windows 7 News
Well here’s something I bet you didn’t expect, apparently if you set your Windows 7 machine to have a solid color background, it will hang for 30 seconds before it actually loads.
So if your into having a bleak and barren desktop with just a dull grey background, it may feel like time takes an age [...]
Google threatens to hacker attack with withdrawal from China – Internet – krone.at
After repeated cyber-attacks on Gmail accounts by Chinese human rights activists, Google has announced on Tuesday evening in San Francisco to filter no longer in the future results of its search engine to meet the authorities of regulations in China.
The Internet Group also threatened to cease its activities in the People’s Republic.
“We have discovered [...]
IE: Update for critical vulnerability announced – Browsers – derStandard.at> Web
Microsoft will offer an “out-of-cycle” security update – but it first had to be well balanced “Regrettably, we must note that one of our products has been used for criminal activities.
Therefore we cooperate with Google, other partners in the software industry and international agencies to educate the facts, ” said Microsoft in a press release [...]
