If you’re not happy with the built in download manager of your web browser (which is totally understandable btw ) then the best solution is to install some sort of a dedicated download manager such as Uget or GetGo for instance. But most of those tools are OS dependent (above mentioned two won’t run...
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If you’re looking for a singe installer that will make sure that you’ll be able to play almost all known codecs to mankind (I’m serious though!) plus at the same time that doesn’t cost you anything at all, then K-Lite Codec pack is the one to call for. K-Lite is a partially open source...
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If you’re not much of a geek then perhaps the name “CMOS” (stands for: Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor) might sound like an alien life form (kidding). It’s actually a technology used in manufacturing various types integrated circuits (used in TVs, Computers, Microprocessors and in almost all never electronic products). According to a company called SuVolta (which...
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Things get a bit mad in the holiday season for both shoppers and online retailers because people just shop like crazy . And when it comes to online shopping, security or privacy is a major concern. Although you should always be extra careful while entering your credit card numbers or other whatnot yet in...
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If you haven’t heard, few days ago Google Chrome surpassed Firefox web browser’s popularity according to Statcounter (a web site analytic service). But despite all these “good” things about Chrome many still use (including me) the fully open source, highly secure Mozilla Firefox. But that being said, I too use both Chrome and Chromium from time...
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Free online video hosting services have changed a lot of things. For good or the bad they’ve shown how “useful” they can be. For instance, rather than having stored all your multimedia collection on your computer, if you upload them to an online video hosting service (say YouTube for instance) … Then no matter where you are...
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Because of its disadvantages (such as poor long range support) ‘Wi-Fi’ is mainly used in small networks. And where I come from “Wi-Fi” is still a bit new, but again, little by little, people are buying wireless routers rather than the Non-Wireless counterparts. With a wireless network, once setup (say a small home network...
Read more →Benjamin Kernsa, an Ubuntu contributor and Foss contributor has decided to express his feelings about Unity desktop, Gnome and Foss in general by singing about it!. The song is called “Foss Yeaaaah!” which sounds pretty decent (specially considering he has spent like only 5 minutes to create it!) and is about 2.15 minutes long....
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Easter eggs are special kind of eggs that you just can’t eat. No matter how hard you try you juts can’t eat them. Because they… what am I saying?, oh man I think I’m loosing me mind! . Seriously though, concerning computers, Easter eggs are special kind of tricks that software developers embed into...
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Firefox is a pretty secure, stable and trustworthy web browser that many are still quite fond of (including myself ). But there are few areas that I’m not quite fond of and file downloading feature is one example. For instance, by default when you download something through Firefox, unlike with Chromium or Google Chrome...
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As with most other bloggers, I too started off with Google’s Blogger platform (which is awesome btw). Although it has its limitations… but if you’re okay with Google having access to your files… then you’ll have free web hosting with unlimited resources!. For instance, I know sites that are hosted in Blogger which gets...
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I’m not a GNU/Linux Kernel programmer (not a programmer of any kind actually) but I did give it a little go while I was young (I mean really young). So thanks to that very limited knowledge, I know that most of the codes in GNU/Linux Kernel (which is the heart of the OS) are coded using...
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