Playing with the new Firefox and it’s nice, although I don’t like the way some old extensions seem to have disappeared, such as the one which lets me use Opera-style mouse gestures to move through pages. Another thing I’m not crazy about is the default gap, or spacing, between rows of menu and bookmark items, … Read more
Further to my post a couple of months back on problems at Xdrive , seems the company recently acquired by AOL isn’t out of the woods yet. Two readers posted comments in the past 24 hours: One wrote Xdrive – one of the worst services I have had of any web-based provider. I couldn’t sign … Read more
Whenever I’m on the road I’m always cursing the missing second monitor I have at home. Geez, I miss it. So I’ve always been looking for a program that would let me manage the smaller screen estate I have. I’ve tried WindowSizer — a powerful add-on to the Windows® OS. Use it when you’re working … Read more
Shareware trial strategies are tricky. Do you give the punters 30 days to try out the product? Sixty days, like Buzz’s ActiveWords (another gratuitous plug; you’re going to have to start paying me, Buzz)? Or do you cripple (I hate the word; hobble is better) the software in some way so the user isn’t going … Read more
A reader points out that the NYT piece on the dangers of metadata I posted about earlier didn’t mention Microsoft’s Remove Hidden Data utility, which you can find here. (This link should work; the earlier one didn’t. Apols) “The Remove Hidden Data add-in is a tool that you can use to remove personal or hidden … Read more