There are all kinds of ways to secure things. Stuff it in the back of a closet. Stick it under a mattress. Bury it in the back yard in a coffee can. These techniques might best be called “security by obscurity”. After all, if nobody can find your stuff, then they can’t mess with it. [...]
Oxygen Office Suite – an Alternative to MS Office for Windows 7 | Windows 7 News
The Microsoft Office Suite of software programs is very popular. However, you cannot pick and choose which application comes with the suite, although once you begin the installation process, you can select which programs to install. Nevertheless, alternatives do exist to the MS office suite. Oxygen office is an extension of the OpenOffice.org suite of [...]
This makes your data secure against phishing – Internet – krone.at
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Internet-Browser – Test – CHIP Online
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Yadis! Backup
It’s an easy-to-use backup-tool, which will save you a lot of troubles. It guards your personal data by making real-time copies whenever you make changes to your documents to almost any destination you choose. via Yadis! Backup.
CintaNotes – A Free Personal Notes Manager
A free, lightweight and user-friendly personal notes manager CintaNotes is your essential assistant in the daily task of organizing information, such as your own thoughts and ideas, article excerpts, blog postings, quotes from famous people, research data, curious facts, Wikipedia entries, you name it. via CintaNotes – A Free Personal Notes Manager.
Firefox Headed to Android Phones – Mozilla – Lifehacker
Yesterday we heard that an unknown something from Mozilla is headed to iPhones, but Firefox’s maker is being a bit more specific about Android: A mobile browser is in the works for the open-source phone. via Firefox Headed to Android Phones – Mozilla – Lifehacker.
Five Best Software Update Tools – software updates – Lifehacker
Rather than wait around for your software to notify you of updates (let’s face it, a lot of applications never will), these five handy tools keep an eye on your apps, alert you when an update’s available, and streamline the updating process. via Five Best Software Update Tools – software updates – Lifehacker.
Avoid the Apple QuickTime Bloat with QT Lite :: the How-To Geek
Sometimes you may run across a website that requires QuickTime to view a video. Rather than installing the bloated QuickTime version from Apple, today we take a look at QT Lite that installs only the essential components needed to play QuickTime content on a webpage. via Avoid the Apple QuickTime Bloat with QT Lite :: [...]
TU Berlin – Sicherheit im Internet – Update-Liste
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AVG 9 Antivirus Improves Performance, Adds Identity Theft Tool – antivirus – Lifehacker
Windows only: One of our readers’ favorite antivirus applications, AVG, has updated, claiming faster scan times (up to 50%), boot times (10-15%), and less memory usage. On top of that, it’s added a new feature to assist with identity theft. The identity theft feature, as reported by CNET, is only available in the U.S., and [...]
Mozilla Plugin Check page to help safer web experience – Mozilla Links
To provide users a safer web experience, Mozilla is now going after plugins, which due to the lack of an effective update mechanism, are usually a few versions behind in most user’s computers, leaving them unnecessarily exposed to already patched security flaws. With the latest Firefox 3.5.3 update, Mozilla introduced a simple check to its [...]
Create one installer for dozens of apps with Volery
If you’re going to be buying a new computer soon, or if you regularly work on a number of different computers, you’re probably going to spend a fair bit of time installing the latest version of a bunch of applications that you use most frequently. And that means downloading a bunch of apps, and then [...]
Doodle makes scheduling easy
If you’re planning a meeting, you know it can be a pain in the neck to pick a time where everybody is available. John’s available mornings only, and Susie can’t do Tuesday. A phone call here, an email there—it’s a never-ending challenge. It’d be nice to get a little help here. via Doodle makes scheduling [...]
New nVidia drivers released, showcase another strength of Windows 7 | Windows 7 News
Good news for people with nVidia graphics cards – today, the manufacturer released its 191.07 graphics drivers for all desktop graphics cards. As with the last few releases, these drivers fully support both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7. These drivers support the usual goodies for users of cards in the GeForce 8 [...]
A World Without XP: Change You Can Believe In | Windows 7 News
Windows has come a long way since the early days of 3.1 and 3.11. Windows 95 marked the first time that the user interface had been drastically transformed into what we now know as Windows. The advent of the Start button and the accordion-like programs menu was a new way to view software and applications. [...]
FreewareUpdater, the home of freeware
Freewareupdater is a small, yet powerful software management tool to help you keep track of the most popular Freeware and Open Source applications. It is provided to you absolutely free. It provides you an interactive list of applications, which you can install just with a click. Currently, Freewareupdater contains about 200+ Freeware and Open Source [...]
Apple pushes unnecessary software to Windows PCs
By Gregg Keizer Computerworld – Apple again used its software update tool to push a program that was previously not installed on a PC, according to Computerworld tests early Monday. Later in the day, however, Apple removed the software from the update list. Apple’s Software Update for Windows — a utility most often installed on [...]
FireMath, a powerful MathML editor for Firefox – Mozilla Links
I learned today about a cool new Google Docs feature that lets you create good looking mathematical expressions via its new equation editor. Unfortunately, it doesn’t support MathML export at this time, which I thought would be great to help scientific authors produce better web documents. via FireMath, a powerful MathML editor for Firefox – [...]
Computerspiele sind eine “stark soziale Erfahrung”
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