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If you have used word processing software such as Microsoft Word long enough, you would probably know by now that all the fancy formatting and styling you have for your document on your computer may look totally horrendous on another machine, especially when viewed with other ‘compatible’ word processing software such as Open Office‘s Writer [...]

We all have our must-have softwares and we at SphereLabs love our free softwares. One thing about free softwares on the net is the endless supply of updated versions. Now no one likes to check sites, download, launch and click through the installation wizard applications-after-application, version-after-versions. No one. Thus the birth of an innovative Windows-only [...]

As a heavy Interbutt Internet user, I’ve too many login/passwords to keep and remember. Forums, webmail accounts, blogs, online banking, ISP password, all together 40 of them.

With the recent release of Firefox 2, there has been numerous changes to the interface as well as additional new features. In this short writeup, I’ll cover 3 tweaks which are the close tab button’s position, minimum tab width and a change to certain shortcut keys used in most forums.

I’ve been using Firefox 2.0 since it was at Beta 2 a few weeks ago, and I am happy to say it has been relatively stable. I had it running for nearly a week before it got cranky, which is quite a long way since the days when I had to restart it every day [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

With literally hundreds of publishing platforms; such as WordPress; available for free on the internet, is there really a need for a custom made website? I don’t think so. There are a few exceptions to that of course.