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RSS Feeds
As you are no doubt aware the Internet is a huge place and with billions of pages at your disposal it can sometimes be a little tricky keeping up to date with the information that you require. Luckily a technology known as RSS (Really Simple Syndication) makes it easy to have the latest news and features delivered directly to you rather than you having to go searching for them. By using an RSS reader or compatible browser you can easily get the latest headlines and articles from your...
Firefox Extensions
Many of my Click articles end up with me banging on about how good Firefox is and how all my readers should consider using it as their main browser over Internet Explorer which is bundled free with Microsoft Windows. Since one of the main arguments I use is the large amount of third party add-ons that are available I thought this week I should probably corroborate that thinking by naming a few of them.
Add-ons (otherwise known as extensions or plug-ins) aren't pieces of software in...
AVG 8 0 New
I quite regually get abuse from my beloved readers accusing me of fibbing about how free AVG free is when it starts asking them for money. However I do quite enjoy these emails as they alwasy indicate a new version of my favourite free download has been released.
Now, I must admit that it is true that whenever a new version of AVG is released and an old version is discontinued, they do try and push users down the route of buying the more advanced package. I don't blame them for this as...
Desktop Publishing
Back in the day I used to publish an amateur fanzine dedicated to the old school Commodore 64 computer and whilst it wasn't the way most teenagers spend their time it was something I genuinely enjoyed doing. This was a fanzine which enjoyed worldwide, low scale distribution and those who are even slightly interested can still find some information about this 12 year old magazine by looking up 'Zine 64 on Google as some of the articles were voluntarily archived by our readers online.
Rather...
Free Recipes Online
I knew that old age was finally starting to take root when I went food shopping this weekend and left with a copy of Sainsbury's magazine. There was a point in my life when a magazine featuring a car, a scantily clad woman and something relating to general manliness would have been my publication of choice but, at the tender age of 27 it seems I may have consigned myself instead to a publication geared mainly towards the middle aged women market.
So, what was it that tempted me to pick up...
Web OS
It was suggested to me this week that perhaps I should do an article on the fairly recent developments in the field of web Operating Systems although I'll be honest that I started out not really understanding the point of such a concept and even after researching this article I'm afraid to say that I still don't.
A WebOS is a virtual Operating System that runs in your web browser. The term 'Operating System' is a little misleading as a WebOS is in fact a set of applications running in your...
Free Software UltraVNC
Just over two years ago now I reviewed a piece of software called PC Anywhere as a solution for those that wanted to control any number of PC's remotely. Rather naively I thought that when it came to remote control that this software was pretty much the best it got however just recently we've had computer repair company move in to a room in the Refresh building and they kindly introduced a piece of software called UltraVNC. They use this software for fixing customer problems without...
Deepburner
Last week I felt the need to burn some information on to DVD and having just recently formatted my hard drive and installed Vista I found that I didn't have any recording software apart from the fairly basic functionality built in to Windows. Thinking this wasn't a problem I headed to the Ahead website (www.ahead.de) to obtain the latest version of the popular CD/DVD burning software Nero only to be greeted with a fairly hefty 190mb download.
I do have a fairly fast connection so such a...
Free PC Security for Home Users
I heard about a serious security vulnerability in Internet Explorer that if exploited could let hackers hijack your PC if you visited a website that had some seriously malicious code present. The terrifying part being that you didn't have to click on anything or download anything simply surfing one of the pages is all that is required to become infected.
In all reality the chance of the average user becoming infected is extremely remote but the official line by security experts is that until...
ISO Format
One of the most common file types used in the distribution of software over the Internet is the .ISO format; these single files contain within them an exact copy of an entire CD or DVD disc. They are ideal because rather than having dozens, hundreds or even of thousands of files to transport you only have one.
There are of course other methods of achieving the same goal; some of you may be familiar with .zip or .rar files which have the added advantage of being able to not only take many...
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