You've upgraded to a new computer or maybe replaced that old monitor with a shiny new LCD monitor. Congratulations! So much of our daily life is spent using a computer, that we like to have the newest things we can. It definitely makes a difference to your working life. You will notice a difference with the speed at which you can do things and also the overall appearance of … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2009
Online Translators
What do you call somebody that speaks two languages? Bilingual What do you call somebody that speaks three languages? Trilingual What do you call somebody that speaks only one language? American Without taking offense to the joke, we might realize that this is a little closer to the truth than we care to admit. Fortunately, technology is always there to fix our flaws! … [Read more...]
Prevent the latest exploit in Adobe Acrobat, Disable JavaScript
If you haven't heard already, there is a buffer overflow attack in the wild that exploits the fully-patched and latest versions of Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader, 8.3 and 9.0. The exploit can come in the form of opening a malicious or poisoned PDF file. You can read more about the specifics of the attack and how it works from an article at The Register. To summarize the … [Read more...]
Clean up your Context Menu
The context menu (what pops up when you right-click) is one of the most popular items to clutter; a lot of programs will add their shortcuts or filetypes to the menu when they get installed. It's also a very under-used, convenient location that you could put your frequently used functions and shortcuts. This post should show you how to tame the context menu and make it work for … [Read more...]
Fences by Stardock
Fences is a desktop icon organization program brought to you by Stardock the same people that made ObjectDock, which I have been using on a daily basis recently (and also the publisher for Sins of a Solar Empire, which I'll get around to playing one of these days). Fences allows you to create groups on your desktop for icons and such. Sure, you can cluster your icons (trust me, … [Read more...]