Windows only We've talked about both WinMerge and DiffMerge in the past, and both are great file comparison utilities. When it comes to comparing files, however, these generally only focus on text-based files meaning PDFs are left out in the dark. There is another free program called DiffPDF that can handle those files for you.

Windows; Mac; Linux When I've had to compare two files in the past I've always used the free WinMerge. There is no arguing that this is an awesome free app, but there is one feature it has always lacked that the developers say they won't add. That feature is a way to view only the lines that are different between two text files. Here is what the WinMerge FAQs say:

A lot of reviews for browsers reference a lot of performance and standards compatibility tests, such as the SunSpider or Acid3 tests. There is another test available to help you figure out how well your browser supports HTML5 already. The site is HTML5Test.com and scores the browser out of a possible 450 points.

For many of us it is difficult to test a website from another country, but there are online tools that try to make this kind of thing more accessible to everyone. One service I tend to gravitate towards the most is the WebPageTest.org site we previously covered. If you are looking to troubleshoot network issues, however, that site may not provide the details you are looking for.

I'm a huge fan of the free WinMerge app because it's a fast way to compare two text files (or folders) and find the differences between them. There are also online options such as Quick Diff if you don't want to use a dedicated app, but I recently stumbled upon an alternative to WinMerge that is a bit lighter.

One Windows app that I use almost everyday is WinMerge. It's become extremely popular as a free way to compare two text files to see what differences there are between them. Having WinMerge at your side is a no-brainer when you're working in an environment where multiple people have access to files, and you're not able to track every little change with a source control solution like SVN.

On a pretty regular basis I've found myself comparing two text files, and WinMerge is typically the Windows application I use for the job. It's free, fast, and does a pretty good job of pulling out the differences between two text files. The problem is that, well, it's yet another application you must have installed on your computer.

Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about.

Ever since we did a browser comparison test last year there have been a lot of emails and comments asking if we were going to update the article to reflect new releases. I thought about adding in the new browsers as they came out, but decided against it for one reason or another. Instead I thought it would be better to just do a fresh article, and include even more stats than last time.

It was a tough decision, but I decided to upgrade my iPhone 3G to the iPhone 3GS. I wasn't sure if the new features would be enough to justify the purchase, but I figured I should be able to sell my iPhone 3G on eBay and recoup a good chunk of the cost. So I pre-ordered the phone, and got it delivered to me last Friday morning.

It seems as though Apple has been getting a lot of good publicity lately, and it's definitely got to be helping their sales. The latest example is a benchmark and usability test done by the reputable Popular Mechanics lab.

We've been asked for quite awhile to provide a performance comparison of the different mainstream browsers out there, and so today we are going to show you the stats from several different areas that users generally find to be the most important. Things like memory usage, page load time, and JavaScript performance will all be covered below.

I don't think anyone was really expecting to see a new release of Apple's Safari browser today, but it has dropped down the tubes for all to enjoy. Apple is once again boasting the performance of the browser when stacked up against the other mainstream alternatives, and according to them Safari comes out well on top in terms of HTML performance and JavaScript performance.

February was a good month for almost all of the browsers out there except for Internet Explorer, according to Net Applications. From December 2006 to August 2007 Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser was able to maintain a substantial 79% marketshare. In the last 6 or 7 months, however, they've been dropping just under 1% each month.

There are certain features in Google Docs that everybody seems to know about, yet there are others which are hardly known. One such hardly known feature will be helpful for times when you need to revise a document. It's built right into Google Docs and allows a user to look at two versions of the same document side by side and compare them.

Now that Vista SP1 has been released there's no surprise that performance tests and benchmarks are going to start flooding the Internet, and not surprisingly XP takes the crown in most of the cases. ZDNet has gotten the ball rolling (here and here) with their test results:

Jeff Jones, the Security Strategy Director for Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing group, has assembled a 1-year analysis of Vista's vulnerabilities. In his 6-month review Vista came out on top when pitted up against other operating systems, and stretching the timeline out over a 1-year period didn't yield any different results.

Finding apps that make you more productive is always something that I look forward to, and DonationCoder is once again on top of that! Just a little while ago they started a Getting Organized Challenge to see what programmers could come up with.

... or so that seems to be the general consensus among many of the reviewers out there. The latest buzz is in regards to CNet UK's Top Ten Terrible Tech Products, where they place Windows Vista at number 10. Is it deserving of such a pitiful ranking?

Process Explorer is a popular application put out by Microsoft that provides many more details regarding running processes than the standard Task Manager. It has a lot more control over how the processes are organized, and it has won the hearts of many power users out there.