The other day we wrote about an application called Local Cooling who’s goal was to save energy by teaching you to hibernate your computer when it’s not being used. It didn’t really present any useful features, but it showed you cool stats to let you know how much energy you have saved.

Today I have a program that is actually useful: WinOFF (Download Mirror). This is a

The other day I was working on one of my computers that has Vista installed. As it turns out I accidentally deleted a pretty important system file, oops! When I rebooted the computer I was presented with a message that said "BOOTMGR is missing. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart."

That’s when I began thinking "what the heck did I do?" I searched the Internet for a fix and came across an article by Lifehacker

One of Wikipedia’s greatest strengths and weaknesses is that just about anybody is able to contribute and edit the content. It’s obvious that certain people, organizations or companies keep tabs on what content their Wikipedia page contains when anything controversial or what would be considered “bad publicity” is removed anonymously. It happens quite often, and those same people are the type to edit competitors or enemy pages as well. The ability to post anonymously has opened up the

Another vulnerability has been found in Firefox, and this one makes it possible for a hacker to retrieve the settings and variables used in extensions. The person who discovered the flaw was able to steal a dynamically generated password created by the Fire Encrypter extension.

So how serious is this? Read for yourself:

It basically means that everyone can probe all

We’ve known that Google has been working on a “Health” service for quite some time now, but what we haven’t seen are screenshots. Google Blogoscoped has posted the first screenshots of what Google Health will presumably look like. They came from a prototype, so while things may change, the images give us a general idea of what Google intends to do with it.

There’s a lot of health information available these days, but Google’s Adam Bosworth says

Desktop icons seem to have a mind of their own, and when you least expect it they will popup in different positions. This happens all the time when I plug my laptop into a second monitor since the two screens have a different resolutions.

There are some things that you can do to save the position of your icons, and quickly be able to

There’s lots of news coming from the Windows Live Blog regarding upgrades and improvements to Windows Live Hotmail. Probably the biggest upgrade is that all users now have 5GB of storage (paid users will have 10GB). To compare, my Gmail account is currently at around 2.8 GB which means at this point, Google’s Gmail offers the lowest amount of storage among their competitors (Yahoo offers unlimited).

An increase in mail storage