Now there’s no excuse for you to keep running that abomination of a browser Internet Explorer. While yes Microsoft has made alot of progress with the latest version (IE8), they are still no where close to supporting web standards the way that every other browser does.

It’s often a headache for web designers (trust me I know) just to make their websites display properly in Internet Explorer.

Trouble is, some sites refuse to operate in anything but IE. Windows Update being one of them, and many corporate intranet websites, won’t display in any other browser. So at times you’re forced to use Internet Explorer.

Using the Coral IE Tab add-on for Firefox, now you can visit those sites without having to open the detested browser. Even Windows Update works flawlessly. So, quit living in the dark ages of the internet and embrace modern web apps, CSS3 and HTML5 with the awesome Firefox 3.5.

Download Coral IE Tab

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• October 15, 2009 -- Internet Connection Hosed? Try Winsock XP Fix
• September 20, 2009 -- What Is Digsby?
• August 30, 2009 -- Lock Windows With Your USB Flash Drive

Using a nifty utility installed on your USB flash drive called Predator you can:

A Windows session would be locked by simply removing the connected USB drive from the computer system. Connecting the USB flash drive again would unlock the system.

The user needs to specify a backup password as well. This backup password can be used to unlock a session if the USB flash drive is damaged or not available at all.

The screen will go black whenever the user removes the USB drive from the computer system.

Predator will write events to a log file that can be used to analyze attempts to access the computer system. The software will also change the keys on the USB drives frequently to prevent that a copied keyfile can be used to access the system.

• October 15, 2009 -- Internet Connection Hosed? Try Winsock XP Fix
• August 27, 2009 -- Make a bootable USB installer for Windows XP, Vista, 7 with WinToFlash
• August 20, 2009 -- 24 Killer Portable Apps For Your USB Flash Drive

Well now you can. Using this Microsoft Office plug-in OfficeTab, instead of having separate windows for each open document, you can have tabs for all your open documents in either Word, Excel or Powerpoint.

As Lifehacker points out, you’ve got to wonder why Microsoft doesn’t include this feature by default.. maybe something to look forward to in the next version of Office?

The Lifehacker article also warns of a Visual Studio prompt, however, after installing it on my machine I had no such errors and it works problem free.

To download it you can visit the Google translated download page at OfficeTab or alternatively I have provided a download link here. (OfficeTabv1.20.zip)

via Lifehacker via DownloadSquad

• August 30, 2009 -- Lock Windows With Your USB Flash Drive
• August 20, 2009 -- 24 Killer Portable Apps For Your USB Flash Drive
• October 18, 2009 -- Microsoft’s Security Essentials : 1.5 Million Installs in One Week. Is it the End for Norton?

Some of the apps I’ve used and would recommend are:

Truecrypt
μTorrent
CCleaner
All the Nirsoft Apps
Treesize Free
VLC
Foxit PDF Reader

Check out the full list at Download Squad: 24 Killer Portable Apps For Your USB Flash Drive

• August 30, 2009 -- Lock Windows With Your USB Flash Drive
• October 19, 2009 -- Get Rid of those Fake Antivirus programs with Remove Fake Antivirus
• October 15, 2009 -- Internet Connection Hosed? Try Winsock XP Fix

A lot of people have their own Wi-Fi network at home, yet not many of them are taking full advantage of the sort of cool things they can do with that network.

Read the article at MakeUseOf:
4 Free WiFi Software Downloads To Take Advantage Of Wireless Networks.

• October 15, 2009 -- Internet Connection Hosed? Try Winsock XP Fix
• September 9, 2009 -- Completely Ditch IE with Firefox Add-on Coral IE Tab
• August 30, 2009 -- Lock Windows With Your USB Flash Drive

Last day to get Windows 7 Release Candidate. The OS will continue to run another 10 months free of charge.

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• October 18, 2009 -- Microsoft’s Security Essentials : 1.5 Million Installs in One Week. Is it the End for Norton?
• October 15, 2009 -- Internet Connection Hosed? Try Winsock XP Fix
• September 15, 2009 -- Re-Enable Fixes Windows Features That Have Been Disabled by a Virus