How about using a web browser that was created by a hacking group and uses technology backed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (a digital rights group) to surf the web anonyously for those paranoids out there sound? We’ll the author, casting the conditioning built-in warnings in respect to using applications created by hackers, did just that for the sake [...]
Posted in Operating Systems, Productivity, Windows on September 20th, 2006 by Ben Jim Comments Off
For something that comes free and built-in into some Operating Systems [read: *nix), there are a couple of 3rd party tools (including Microsoft's own) to enable the replication of the Virtual Desktop concept on Windows. If you're not familiar with virtual desktops, they allow you to split up your applications/programs to several different (virtual) desktops, thus avoiding clutter [...]
Posted in Copyright, Web Content on September 20th, 2006 by Benny Chew Comments Off
If you’re a regular on our site, you’d notice the recent addition of the ‘Some Rights Reserved’ and the Creative Commons image plastered on almost all pages at the bottom. We have added Creative Commons rights to our site. Basically, it means that we’ve stipulated what copyright rights we keep, and what we give permission [...]
Posted in Browsers, Open Source, Reviews, Windows on September 16th, 2006 by Benny Chew Comments Off
Internet Explorer (IE) has been largely synonymous to browsing the internet ever since Microsoft decided to bundle it with Windows 95 operating system. The much heralded browser wars between Microsoft and Netscape accelerated progressive innovation of new features to the web browser which ended with the demise of Netscape’s Navigator browser. Unfortunately, ever since Microsoft [...]
I’m a new convert to Microsoft’s new blog authoring tool - Windows Live Writer beta. The mission as quoted from their site: Our goal in creating Writer is to help make blogging more powerful, intuitive, and fun for everyone. Live Writer is built on the .net platform and while geared for their Web2.0 Live hype and [...]
Today we’ll go over a simple way to encrypt sensitive files on your hard disk, external hard disk, usb thumbdrive and CD. TrueCrypt is a free, open source encryption application that works on Windows and Linux. It creates a virtual hard drive in the form of a single file that will read and write encrypted [...]
This is an open source web browser that makes you appear as if you’re working, even though you’re surfing the net, to the the casual observer. It’s basically a browser based on Gecko HTML renderer used by Mozilla Firefox that embeds itself inside a frame of the currently focused window of any program. To add [...]
