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When it comes to sending files to other people, Internet users have a lot of options at their hand. From uploading them to ftp servers or file sharing sites to sending them per email or using a direct transfer client. All are either difficulty to set up for users who are not that tech savvy, [...]

In another blow for beleaguered BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, the U.S. government's main procurement agency is issuing iPhones and Android-based devices to some of its 17,000 workers.

There are quite a few things that you cannot do on YouTube due to lack of controls. It is for instance not possible to repeat videos automatically or stop videos from automatically playing if you load it on the video hosting site. Most of the annoyances and missing features on YouTube become available through add-ons [...]

Oracle today has released a critical patch update for JAVA SE that includes both patches for security vulnerabilities and non-security fixes. The company asks all Java users to update their versions of Java SE as soon as possible to protect the underlying systems from attacks exploiting those vulnerabilities. The patch advisory for February 2012 lists [...]

When you compare the Chrome Web Store to the Mozilla Add-ons Repository, you will notice that the former offers little sorting and customization options. Up until now you saw a list of recommended apps and extensions on the front page, with options to change the listing to popular items instead of display apps or extensions [...]

Sometimes you may want to mute all sound coming from the Firefox web browser. Maybe you are currently on a page with a Flash animation that is making irritating sounds, or you are about to answer a phone call and need to mute the sounds in the browser because of that. Or maybe you are [...]

Next week, when I finally download the Windows 8 Consumer Preview I’ll start writing not just one, but two new Windows 8 books (with a third being written later this year) and I want to make sure that the books I write are what you both need and want to read.  I thought then that [...]

Google is the number one public DNS service in the world - should you be worried?

A Single-Site browser serves a very specific purpose. You use it to access one, and sometimes a handful, of websites and services on the Internet. This can be financial sites, your email accounts or other sites with personal information like a medical related sites. The basic idea is to block access to all other sites [...]

Recently Netgear sent me their new DGND3700 router for review, which was very lucky as mine was playing up at the time.  Now on the face of it you might not think the arrival of a router for review would be anything exciting, in this case you could very well be wrong.  This model is [...]

The general consensus is that https connections to web sites protect your data from being spied at by users in the same network. That’s why all major web services such as Facebook, Twitter or Google have started to enforce the use of https on their websites. Most users do not know that it may still [...]

Microsoft today has released this month’s security updates. A total of nine security bulletins have been released, of which four address vulnerabilities with a maximum severity rating of critical. This means that at least one Microsoft product is affected critically by the vulnerability. Six bulletins fix issues in the Windows operating system, two in Microsoft [...]

I personally like the minimalistic approach over at Reddit as I prefer minimalistic over sites that bombard you with visual eye candy. Some users on the other hand might like a more visual interface, and that’s exactly what Scrolldit offers. It basically takes Reddit posts in realtime to display to display the media of all [...]

Spam is one of those things that you never can get rid of completely, it seems. Email providers like Hotmail, Google Mail or Yahoo Mail are battling on the spam front ever since they opened their door for the first users. And while they managed to cut down significantly on spam in past years, there [...]

Back in January we reported that VideoLan was about to release VLC 2.0, and that a first release candidate was to be released in that week. This release candidate has been out for about a month now, and VideoLan is preparing to ship the final version of VLC Media Player 2.0 later this week. The [...]

When you look at today’s TV streaming offerings on the Internet, you will always see contents being served by the hosting site to all connecting users. Companies need the necessary infrastructure to make sure the contents can be streamed to all of their users in good quality (with good quality meaning an uninterrupted viewing experience [...]

Twitter users had an option to turn on https for their connections to the popular social messaging site for quite a while. Users who turned the feature on, benefited from encrypted communication with Twitter which blocked snooping and eavesdropping attacks, and recommended when for connections to the site on public (wireless) networks. This was especially [...]

I’ve written a lot about Windows 8 over the last few days as we approach the release of the Consumer Preview at the end of this week.  One subject that’s not been touched on so far is how effective new Metro apps can or could be in businesses and enterprises, and if a move to [...]

Apple, burnished by the iPhone's success and memorials to Steve Jobs, displaced Google as top company in Harris Interactive's poll of corporate images.