Thunderbird 2 has taken remote image blocking to extremes. They have removed the option to allow remote images to display from the options dialog in an attempt to force users to add every address from which they they want to see images in emails to their address book. The idea of a whitelist is good [...]
Don’t you hate it when a nice freeware program decides not only to go commercial with new versions, but removes all the old freeware versions of the program from sites they control or influence in an attempt to make people use the new payware version? Sure, the newer versions generally have more features, but many [...]
There are a number of web site you can go through to download videos from sites like YouTube to your one system, like KeepVid — but you have to wonder if such sites are tracking what you do. Clicking on the All-In-One Video Bookmarklet while on YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe, Myspace, Break.com, Putfile, Dailymotion, Sevenload, [...]
Microsoft announced yesterday that support for the consumer versions of Windows XP (Home and Media Center Edition) will not end in April 2009 as previously announced. Instead, XP Home and XP MCE will then enter the same five Extended Support period that has always been promised for XP Professional. During the extended support period, free [...]
I upgraded to Firefox 2.0 over the weekend as a release candidate for the new version of my “must have” Tab Mix Plus extension had been released. The upgrade seemed to go smoothly. Several extensions had to be disabled as they were not marked as working in Firefox 2.0, but I expected that. Unfortunately [...]