Reset Firefox Has Landed, And It’s Awesome

Troubleshooting issues that you experience in the Firefox web browser can be an exhausting experience, especially if you can’t pinpoint the issue that you are experiencing to a setting, add-on or particular version of the browser. If Firefox has become slower over time, a lot of things can be responsible, and finding out which can sometimes feel like mission impossible. Instead of having to spend hours troubleshooting and fixing the problem, Firefox users will soon be able to make use ...

UCWeb Plans Operating Platform In America In 2012

UCWeb, a leading provider of mobile Internet software technology and browser services in China, plans to establish its operating platform in America in 2012. Yu Yongfu, chief executive officer of UCWeb, claimed in a speech that UCWeb’s browser product has gained over 50% market share in China, including 60 million active users from the Android platform. Meanwhile, the product is serving users in 150 countries and regions around the world. Over the past few months, the product achieved over 10% ...

Event Log Explorer 4.0 Released

Back in 2008 we reviewed Event Log Explorer, a third party program to work with Windows Event logs, for the first time. Back then we found it to be an excellent tool for system administrators and users alike, to get the most out of the event log. The company behind Event Log Explorer,  FSPro Labs, has just released version 4.0 of the application to the public. And while there is no change log, changes are noticeable right away after you ...

Wuhan Will Be Lenovo’s New Industrial Base In China

Chinese technology company Lenovo has signed an agreement with the municipal government of Wuhan and announced the founding of its new industrial base in the city. Lenovo’s new industrial base in Wuhan is reportedly a comprehensive base that integrates research, development, manufacturing, and sales of mobile Internet devices. Over the next five years, this base will gain over CNY5 billion in investment from Lenovo, and is expected to be finished and put into production in October 2013. Prior to this, ...

Remove Photo Metadata With Metanull

The majority of pics that you take with your smartphone or digital camera do not contain only information about the scenery that you have just taken a picture of, but also metadata (also known as Exif data). Depending on the configuration, this may include location-based information, technical details like shutter speed as well as information about data and time the pic was taken. This does not have to be a issue, especially not if you are only using the pics ...

NetQin To Acquire 55% Stake In Beijing NationSky

NetQin Mobile Inc., a mobile Internet services focusing on security, privacy and productivity, has announced plans to acquire a 55% stake in Beijing NationSky Network Technology, Inc., a provider of mobile services to enterprises in China. This transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2012. NetQin Mobile reportedly has over 60% market share in China’s consumer mobile security market, and the company is now expanding its footprint into the enterprise market via its majority acquisition of NationSky.

Remove Close Other Tabs and other Firefox Menus that you don’t need

Damn it. I accidentally clicked on the close other tabs menu, and now all open tabs in the browser are gone, but the active tab. While it is possible to recover the tabs one by one, it is not a pleasant user experience, especially if you never use the close other tabs feature, and would like to remove it permanently to avoid this kind of accidents. Enter Menu Editor, a Firefox extension that I reviewed in 2008 for the first ...

JavaScript Popup Blocker for Google Chrome

Popups, I do not like them, at all. While they are sometimes used by sites to make part of the website’s functionality available, they are more often than not used for advertisement. And while there is nothing wrong with advertising in general, popup ads tend to be one of the most annoying forms of advertisement that you encounter on the Internet. The core reason being that new windows are spawned, that you need to close manually at one point or ...

Remove Old Device Information To Speed Up Windows

Every time you connect a new device to Windows, its information get added to the Registry. One of the ideas behind this is to improve device discovery on consecutive connects to the PC. Some users, especially those who connect a wide variety of devices to their system, or have done so in the past, experience slower begin up times because of this. How? To find out whether a device is present but not connected, is to try to connect to ...

Lenovo Teams With VeriFone For POS Payment System

China’s Lenovo Group and America’s VeriFone Systems have jointly announced that the two parties will provide ThinkPad Mobile POS mobile payment solution to retailers in the United States. Based on Lenovo’s tablet computer, ThinkPad Mobile POS system is a customized version of PAYware, the enterprise mobile payment solution developed by VeriFone. Via this payment system, retailers can easily configure, use, and manage an end-to-end POS device that offers a more efficient and flexible alternative than a stationary cash register.