Windows 8 brings not only Metro interface and strange Start menu but also Windows Defender instead of Microsoft Security Essentials. Windows Defender is missing some features MSSE has. One of those changes is that updates for virus and spyware definitions are installed by Windows Update.
In case your setting are “notify but not install automatically” you are asked nearly every day for manual update. My guess is that Microsoft want to force people to use automatic updates.
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I am using Echofon, Twitter client, for a long time, mainly because of its ability to synchronize timeline between several devices. I am using it on laptop and desktop as a Firefox plugin and on iPad as app.
I have tried several different clients, but realized that this synchronization is a killer feature for me.
But now it seems to be a history as Naan Studios announced that they are going to abandon all version except of mobile one.
So from unique multiplatform Twitter client with synchronization between several devices we have here a client like hundreds of other.
R.I.P. Echofon.
Yesterday appered information on Bibblelabs forums that Bibble labs were purchased by Corel last year and that Bibble 5.2.3 is last version of Bibble. Further information are to be presented on CES 2012 next week.
On same forums today user andysalay posted information that he found product page for ancestor of Bibble – Corel AfterShot Pro.
As you can see on screenshot it is in fact rebranded Bibble 5. According to information from andysalay current version of Corel After Shot Pro is in beta stage.
If you install CrashPlan with root permissions, you might have trouble to start /usr/local/bin/CrashPlanDesktop as regular user with non root permissions.
It is because log files are owned by root. This can be fixed by simple chmod 666 /usr/local/crashplan/log/*.log.
Sometimes you can get in situation that Windows Update is not working and you are receiving error
“Windows Update cannot currently check for updates, because the service is not running. You may need to restart your computer”.
It can be caused by corrupted data for Windows update. If this is your case fix could be easy.
Windows update serviceC:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\ folder and delete all its contentWindows update serviceIf you have plenty of RAM and do no want Firefox to save temporary files to disk (for example because you have SSD and want to limit number of disk writes) you can move Firefox cache to RAM.
There is no way how to do it in gui, so you need to use favorite about:config. Search for parameter browser.cache.disk.enable and set that to false. Now disk cache is disabled. Then search for browser.cache.memory.enable and set that as true – it will enable cache in RAM (it is set to true already sometimes).
If you want to set how much RAM you will dedicate to cache, search for browser.cache.memory.capacity and as value set desired cache size in kilobytes.
Moving cache to RAM is good idea only if you have quick internet connection as cache is wiped out on every restart and all pictures, scripts etc. are downloaded again after restart.
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