Cool Gadgets, iPhone/Android Apps and Geeky Stuff
When you visit a website, it often leaves cookies in your browser which help with the loading times of the website when you visit it next. While this is helpful, there are times when these cookies do something else: they track your browsing. These tracking cookies spy on your browsing and compromise your privacy. The information [...]
Imagine you have two versions of the same file. You need to thoroughly compare them. You would first open up these files and look carefully for differences. Next you would access the properties of each file and compare their properties. A comparison this way will surely take a lot of time and in most cases [...]
Compressed files serve a very important purpose: squeezing your files into a single container. When you send emails, you cannot attach folders – attachments need to be files. You can simply compress the folder into a single compressed archive and email it. But when you download an archive to extract its contents, not all file [...]
I use a lot of applications that are network dependent. I travel around a lot so I am constantly using different wireless networks with my laptop and often I need to quickly check my new IP address to feed into my apps. People such as me could definitely use a tool that readily provides them [...]
Your most commonly used applications are often far apart on the computer and you have to switch windows or enter separate menus to access each application. Even if you place all shortcuts to commonly used applications in the same folder or on your desktop, accessibility is not made much more convenient and a lot of [...]