Alpha Core

Are you having problems in Windows Vista to get rid of a directory with limited access permissions an installer or uninstaller did a bad job on? Maybe some program created some files with very restrictive permissions? Then here are 3 easy steps to take total control over them. Read more

This article is part of a series of posts containing software that I’ve come to think of as being the best free and open-source ones around at the moment. Check the table of contents for the other articles in the series.

In this article I’d like to list some network and internet tools that deserve some attention. Anything from general every-day-use tools to more advanced analysis software goes in here. Here’s some of the better software out there: Read more

Although the basic idea to offer people a choice what software to use for browsing the internet is not bad at all, forcing Microsoft to bundle Mozilla Firefox (as well as Google’s Chrome, Apple’s Safari and Opera) with their operating system Windows, which gets shipped with Internet Explorer (IE) right now, is completely over the top. The situation was revealed in Microsoft’s quarterly filing with the Security and Exchange Commission. Read more

This article is the third in a series of posts containing software that I’ve come to think of as being the best free and open-source ones around at the moment. Check the table of contents for the other articles in the series.

In this article I’ll list some system tools that I would like to give some attention. These are the ones that come in handy when things go wrong, or that keep things in order in the first place. Either that, or they perform a general-purpose task that I could be without. Here’s my selection: Read more

It’s not the next Sony AIBO/QRIO and it doesn’t include batteries. I’m talking about Electric Sheep, a free, open source screen saver created by Scott Draves, run by thousands of people all over the world. When computers “sleep”, the screen saver comes to life and the computers communicate with each other over the internet to share the work of creating morphing abstract animations known as “sheep”. The result is a collective “android dream”, an homage to Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. You could call it a global computer-generated art project. Read more