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Facebook has recently announced clearer privacy settings which appear to be 'one click' away from wherever the user is on the site. It remains to be seen whether these new changes are merely a case of giving with one hand and taking with the other, a charge directed at Facebook in the past over...

Just something I just came across while exploring 'net. :crowned: (and no, that logo ain't an image, it's a proper ASCII work of art!)

I have already talked about full blown video converters on this blog, but what if you just want to quickly and easily convert videos to format that your iPod supports (MP4)? I've found DVDVideoSoft's Free Video to iPod Converter fulfils this need well. The application is extremely simple to...

If you're a user of OpenOffice, a free office suite, you'll know that it takes quite a long time to open up the provided applications (such as OpenOffice Writer) even if you have good hardware. While the suite comes with a Quick Start tray application, I personally feel that I shouldn't have to...

For years I have been searching for the best checksum verifier and finally I think I may have discovered it. The little program is called HashTab. It usefully adds an extra tab/page to any file's properties window, where it quickly calculates hashes from a large variety of algorithms...

Multiple Tab Handler adds some extremely useful tab handling functionality to Firefox. My favourite function being an extension to the context menu when you right click a tab. Currently in Firefox, if you have multiple tabs open you can right click a tab and choose 'Close other tabs', but...

Wallpaper Generator is a simple program that generates random gradients which then can be set as wallpapers for your desktop. There's no installer, just a single .exe file and its only a 61kb download! Wallpaper Generator is as easy as pie to use. For more info and download link...

When iTunes 8 was released I wrote a blog post spelling out my thoughts for iTunes. So, did iTunes 9 add any of my feature requests? Watch Folder Support - Yes, Apple did listen, kinda. Hidden deep in your Music folder lies a folder that if music is placed into it, music will be automatically...

I was just browsing Lifehacker when this article caught my eye: http://lifehacker.com/5351067/happy-birthday-a-look-back-at-one-year-of-google-chrome It turns out Google's browser is now one year old. A year sure did go quickly - now I feel old... ;)

With the WHO recently declaring swine flu as a pandemic and with roughly 36,000 cases confirmed (as of 15th June 2009), how worried are you about the disease? :scratch: Interesting Links: - Daily situation updates (WHO): http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/updates/en/index.html - Watch...

Poll time! :cowboy:

What has the big G been up to this year? CADIE (Cognitive Auto-Heuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity) has taken over all of Google's products and has increased product innovation ten fold. Take a look at what she has done: Chrome with 3D Notice the print-out 3D glasses with the...

GMail - Brilliant webmail with loads of space (7305MB and counting at the time of writing). So much space that Google actually encourages you to not delete any email! Email however, does not take up much space, so even when following Google's marketing, a huge amount of space is left sitting...

With the recent escapade of the change of Facebook terms [Consumerist Article]...then no change...then plans of change in the future...,the issue of privacy is once again brought to the front of our minds. I recently read an article that revealed how people use Facebook to extort money off...

With all the hype of over Windows 7, many people wonder how they can get Windows 7 functionality into previous versions of Micro$oft's operating systems. One of my favourite (but not really talked about) feature of Windows 7 is that you are able to set your background the change at a user...

Update: The bug has been fixed in version 8.0.233 - I have recently installed AVG anti-virus Free 8.0.176 on a machine when I discovered a pretty big GUI (general user interface) bug. Look here: To replicate the bug. just go into the license section and you will see that the 'Register'...

Hi, Found a couple of creepy-crawlies: 1. After the 'About RootAlyzer' screen, and the program performs a quick scan - I am met with alot of transparency. The program responds fine - To get rid of the transparency, I just shake the window around :spider: 2. On the 'Deep Scan' tab the user is...

Do you hate the default avast! skin that looks more like what a media player should look like? Well you have 2 options: A - Go to http://avast.com/eng/skins.html and install a different skin OR B - If you don't like any of those skins you can actually disable skins altogether - many people do...

Hello there! Today's topic is video and audio conversion. Lets give a scenario: Bob downloads Y but he wants to stick it on his music player, but it won't play Y because it only supports Z. Well Bob needs to convert (encode) that Y file to a Z file So what do I think is the best audio/video...

I downloaded the latest release of iTunes - version 8, last night. This release has been long overdue as iTunes has been stuck on version 7 since 2006. Unfortunately, this latest version of the popular music player (running on Vista) is still buggy, bloated and slow like in previous versions...