As regular readers of this blog may remember, Irfanview is my favorite graphics viewer. You can read why I like it so much in my original review. I’ve tried a few more graphics viewers since that review and Irfanview is still my favorite. It’s, small, powerful, easy to use, and free — what more could [...]
Back when I was a teen, I got a lot of free music by recording it off the radio on cassette or 8-track tapes. (I know I’m dating myself by mentioning I had an 8-track recorder.) This was a free and legal way to get copies of music. Heck, one local station would play an [...]
Spyware Blaster is an interesting concept. Instead of hunting for spyware installed on your computer, it tries to block common types of spyware from installing. It makes hundreds of common ActiveX spyware programs that can infest Internet Explorer think they are already installed — blocking them from installing. It can also set Internet Explorer and [...]
Google leaves programs in “beta” long after most companies would have released a “release” version. In the case of the Google Earth beta, Google is just released its 4th major release and the program is still considered “beta.” In case you are one of the rare people who has never heard of Google Earth, [...]
FireBug is a must-have Firefox extension for anyone interested in web site design. It allows you to explore web pages (your own to debug or others to learn from) an an intuitive and very useful way. FireBug’s author describes the extension like this:
FireBug lets you explore the far corners of the DOM by keyboard or [...]