T-mobile setup a flash based emulator of their upcoming Android phone T-Mobile G1 which visualizes some of the functionality of the of the first Android phone. The emulator has its shortcomings like displaying the Android phone in the wrong size and some functionality is severely limited.
Read more »If you want to manipulate system files in Windows Vista you need to take ownership of them and assign the correct rights to the file so that it can be manipulated. Windows Vista system files are not owned by the user but by the Trusted Installer and every attempt of manipulating these system files will result in a access denied error message.
Read more »My new computer monitor arrived yesterday. It is an hp computer monitor with 24″ for maximum screen space. Pretty much feels like working with two 19″ monitors only that you got everything on one screen now. One thing that I noticed after connecting the new computer monitor to my computer system was that the quick launch bar was missing from the Windows Taskbar.
Read more »Firefox 3 changed the bookmarking system from using html files to using sqlite databases. One benefit of using databases is the possibility to run custom queries. Three of the so called smart bookmarks are already available after installing Firefox3: Most Visited, Recently Bookmarked and Recent Tags all make use of database queries to provide the user with dynamic results.
Read more »Windows Wallpapers from MSN was a Microsoft application that would provide the user with a wallpaper manager that would download new wallpapers from MSN sporadically. Web Wallpaper is a similar application only that it does not use one source to download wallpapers but practically any source that the user enters in the application.
Read more »Firefox 3 introduced several special folders for Firefox bookmarks management, among them the Unsorted Bookmarks, Most Visited, Recently Bookmarked and Recent Tags folders. Unsorted Bookmarks is being used to store new bookmarks that have been added to Firefox by clicking on the star in the Firefox address bar. In case you have done that and could not find the bookmarks afterwards; That’s where you have to look. It is only visible in the Bookmarks Manager.
Read more »Although every user on the Internet is using email to communicate only few encrypt and digital certify their emails. The main reason might be the feeling that encrypting and certifying emails is a complicated process that requires lots of technical knowledge. It requires in addition to convince friends and business partners to secure their email accounts as well so that the system would be effective. It does not make sense to encrypt emails if the receiver does not know how to encrypt them.
Read more »One usability addition to Windows Vista was the so called Windows Game Explorer that would display all installed Windows Vista games in one menu. It would not only display the usual Microsoft games that ship with the Windows operating system but also games installed by the user of the computer system. Previously installing games meant to have their links scattered around in the Windows Start Menu with the only option to manually move them into a folder to have them all together.
Read more »I have been experiencing a problem with the auto-hide feature of the Windows Taskbar for the last two weeks or so. Auto-hide would work fine for some time but eventually the Windows Taskbar would just lock up and not auto-hide anymore. This was sometimes caused by applications that have been started but the rest of the time by something that I personally could not figure out.
Read more »Like Microsoft Office documents Adobe PDF documents contain meta information that can sometimes reveal information that the author does not want to be accessible by readers. Meta information such as the author name, the application the PDF document was created with or PDF file creation dates are easily accessible by anyone analyzing the document closely.
Read more »The first step of making sure that important files are safe is to create backups regularly. This can be done with most Windows backup software programs and other operating systems provide means to back up data safely as well. Many users thing that they have done all they could and that their data is safe from this point on. Well, this is not always the case. One major factor that plays a role is the backup location.
Read more »Another interesting Windows software application came up in the Donation Coder forum the other day. A user was asking for an application to maximize part of a window or control to fullscreen with the option to return it to its initial position later on.
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