You may have Firefox as your regular web browser, but that doesn’t mean you make use of all of its features. A simple enough one is the ‘Clear Private Data’ function. This allows you to erase all the information stored in your browser. Using it regularly is not only safe practice, as it ensures that you clear out sensitive information like passwords or certificates regularly, it can also improve Firefox’s performance. Anyway, enough said here. Why read when you can watch? Here is a little tutorial using our new video feature. Enjoy!
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Focusing more on usability, the new WinRAR 3.80 Beta features now both the “Ask before overwrite” and “Skip existing files” possibilities in the archive extraction dialog window. These options were already available in previous versions, but now they’ve been made even easier to use. Another great new feature is the possibility to add archiving profiles right into Windows Explorer’s context menu, so that you can archive anything according to your own settings in just a couple of clicks.
What’s the biggest obstacle to productivity for the modern office worker? Slow PC’s, poor IT support, jammed printers, pure boredom? No, if we’re a little bit honest then it’s all those fun little distractions such as YouTube, MySpace and Facebook which take valuable chunks out of our day.
Many people choose to spend their lunch hour taking a walk, reading the newspaper or lunching with friends. However, there are plenty of us who must stay chained to our desks at this time due to our chronic addiction to Icy Tower. I don’t know how many times I’ve tried to help Harold the Homeboy get to the top of the tower over the years, but I still can’t bear to tear myself away from the game. A while back I hit you with some 
There’s a place in your Mac where you can safely store all your sensitive data like passwords, keys and certificates and access them when you need to. That place is Keychain Access, which can be found in your Utilities folder. You can create password-protected keychains for all the different sorts of private info you have. Now, you may be a little wary of storing all your secret data in one place and having it all protected by one password. What would happen if somebody got hold of it? Obviously you’d end up looking a little dumb, so when using Keychain it’s essential to verify that your password is as strong as possible.
I’m a big fan of poker but, like most games I play, I’m not very good at it. Unfortunately, unlike other pursuits, if you’re not very good at poker then you probably won’t be very good at paying the mortgage at the end of the month. Recently I’ve managed to halt my losing streak thanks to three simple computer programs.
Just as expected, Apple revealed version 2 of the iPhone yesterday at the WWDC. The mobile device, which will be available in 22 countries worldwide on July 11th, offers a sleuth of new features: 3G network support, GPS, simultaneous voice and data connections, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, secure access via Cisco IPSec VPN, WPA2 Enterprise and 802.1X authentication, a flush headphone jack and better battery life (300 hours standby, 10 hours talk time, 5 to 6 hours high speed browsing, 7 hours video, and 24 hours of audio).