December 4th, 2009 |
by teocomi |
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TeamViewer is a free software (for personal use only) that enables you to remote control PCs. In other words, if you are at work you can still have full access to your home desktop.
“TeamViewer establishes connections to any PC or server all around the world within just a few seconds. You can remote control [...]
November 24th, 2009 |
by teocomi |
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Recently it happened more than once that the well known free antivirus AVG, updated to the lastest version, was not able to detect really lethal viruses (they completely affected my pcs, I had to format) on my computers. On the other hand they were immediatly neutralized by avast (Home Edition, free).
Actually I have not been [...]
November 13th, 2009 |
by teocomi |
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Panda is a new generation Anti-Virus. It really comes from the cloud:
It got #1 in PC World Comparative, but still it has not been considered by the most famous av comarative test. Actually I’m testing it, and it seems very good (previously I had AVG and avast)… More to come!
P.S.
it is free and downloadable from [...]
November 10th, 2009 |
by teocomi |
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Thanks to How-To Geeks for the guide .
There are two possibilities, one editing Firefox about:config and the other installing the plugin Tab Mix Plus (which I highly suggest anyway).
Have a look to the link above for instructions.
November 10th, 2009 |
by teocomi |
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Yesterday I put Windows 7 on my laptop. The first application I installed afterwards was Firefox, so that i didn’t have to use Internet Explorer to download all of my geeky softwares. The second one to be installed was Free Download Manager, so that I could download them at a reasonable speed.
Really it is something [...]
October 28th, 2009 |
by teocomi |
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In a previuos post I explained how to run a local web server, yeah that was very easy and cool. But what if you try to use your Mercury Mail to test some applications? Well, if you are as lucky as me you will have lots of troubles. So, instead of having to configure SMTP [...]
October 26th, 2009 |
by teocomi |
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Flex 4, PHP, Resources
Have you ever wondered how to test your PHP (for instance) files locally? Well I never did, till I found XAMP. It is a great tool to quickly install on your computer with no hassle Apache, MySQL, PHP + PEAR, Perl… There are different distributions for Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Solaris.
It became essential for [...]
October 23rd, 2009 |
by teocomi |
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EcoCar is a smart application that will help you find out how much you can save (or loose)
if you use a Car-Pooling system instead of driving to your destination address by yourself.
Check it out: http://ecocar.teocomi.com/ !