A first glimpse at macOS 10.15 Catalina
With the start of this year’s Apple developer conference #WWDC19, Apple boss Tim Cook introduced the new version of the Mac operating system in his keynote speech. What’s new,...
curl: Resume broken downloads
With the Unix curl command, you can perform basically every web request that might come to your mind. It can even download files to your disk. But what can you do if you started a...
Welcome back!
When this site started more than 10 years ago, Messenger was a thing, and Twitter had only just been invented. Today, many people don’t even know what Windows Live was. We can’t...
Office 2010 reaches RTM
Office 2010 reaches RTM 17 April 2010 by J.M. Today, Daniel Melanchthon, working at Microsoft, has officially confirmed that Office 2010 has reached Release-to-Manufacturing...
Windows Live Essentials 2009 QFE2: What is new?
Windows Live Essentials 2009 QFE2: What is new? 26 August 2009 by J.M. “QFE” is short for Quick Fix Engineering—and that is exactly what the latest Windows Live Essentials updates...
How to: Launch Windows Defender
How to: Launch Windows Defender 21 December 2013 by J.M. Keep your computer secure by using Windows Defender. What is Defender, and how to open the program? Windows Defender is...
How to: Move the SkyDrive folder in Windows 8.1
How to: Move the SkyDrive folder in Windows 8.1 22 December 2013 by J.M. The cloud disk SkyDrive is tightly integrated into Windows 8.1. The cloud data are stored in the SkyDrive...
Windows 8 to ship in October 2012
On the Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto (Canada), Microsoft announced that Windows 8 will get released in October 2012. The RTM version will be compiled in August....
Facebook: Undo automatic e-mail address change in your profile
Myriads of people from all over the world are complaining about Facebook’s newest work. The reason? Without asking the users and without any announcement, the social network has...
Microsoft is touching the Surface
In an all-secret press event at the Milk Studios in L.A. today (18 June 2012), Microsoft has revealed a new tablet computer. Specifically designed for Windows 8, this tablet runs...
Three years later...
Three years ago, I wrote about new instant messaging networks for Windows Live. Back then, this was only meant to be an April Fool’s joke. Yet, what we have right now is just what...
How-to: Open file or folder properties without context menu
Normally you would access the properties of a file or folder by right-clicking it, then selecting Properties from the appearing context menu. Did you know that you can open these...
140 characters that change the world
140 characters—that seems to be quite a limit for publishing a story. Yet, Twitter has changed how people communicate. Twitter Stories is a fine example for just that. The...
Google starts encrypting searches
The Google web search is soon going to be encrypted by default. This applies Google’s promise from 2009. Starting in January 2010, Google had introduced SSL encryption for its...
Google+ pseudonyms soon allowed
The social network Google+ will soon allow people to use pseudonyms. Until now, Google has enforced Google+ users to enter their real names. You were not allowed to use a...
Skype removes Google integration
Along with announcing the successfully closed deal between Skype and Microsoft, an update for the popular software has been published. It includes minor changes that show...
Skype and Microsoft: The deal is done
#bbpBox_124728164881674240 a{text-decoration:none;color:#f4850e;}#bbpBox_124728164881674240 a:hover{text-decoration:underline;} Hey @Skype: Should we do this thing? October 14,...
How-to: Add Control Panel to the Windows 7 jumplist
Like any program, the Control Panel has a jumplist. On right-clicking the Control Panel icon in the taskbar, its jumplist shows the last used Control Panel components. Would you...
Rest in peace, Steve.
Steve Jobs has died. One of the most prominent personalities in computer technology, this charismatic visioneer has contributed so much to the world we know today. On April 1,...
Security Essentials detects Chrome as malware
Microsoft has published a signature update for the security tools Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft Forefront and Windows Defender. It fixes an erroneous patch causing...