Software
How to find the best free software
Are you looking for a good free Windows program to do some task? There’s a place where you can get recommendations for the best freeware to do all sorts of tasks and activities. Applications for using and editing media, photo viewers and editors, security suites, office suites, almost anything you want— it’s all at The [...]
A little progress to make EULAs easier to understand
Which major industry sells its products with no guarantee that they will work and with no way to recover for damages if something you own is damaged by the product? Software companies, of course. That’s what you accept when you say “I agree” to the ubiquitous “End User License Agreement” or EULA that comes with [...]
The growth and future of Skype
A lot of people now use Skype to make calls all over the world. Mark O’Neill at MakeUseOf related how this communications service has grown: But now, things have all changed, thanks to a company called Skype, and the rise of technology called VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol). This allows you to speak over the [...]
Stop losing web form content
This happens all too often. I am filling in a form on the Internet for one reason or the other and, just as I have gotten almost everything filled in, something happens and I have lost the page or I hit the wrong button. Then I have to start over again. Another aggravation is when [...]
Another Adobe Flash update
Once more and yet again – update your Adobe Flash. There’e a new security bulletin at this link.
Firefox tips and tricks
Do you use the Firefox browser? Then look at these links with various tips for using the browser: Disable the Download HistoryBy default, Firefox keeps a history of everything that you have downloaded. While you could constantly maintain this list to keep it tidy, it is much easier to disable the download history completely. All [...]
A better clipboard
I have a lot of activities involving computers and write quite a bit on the subject. That means that I am constantly saving information snippets from web pages and documents. So I need something much better than the Windows clipboard. Because of my heavy-duty requirements for organizing information, I have been using a commercial program [...]
