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If you like how Greasemonkey lets you manipulate, skin and mod web pages, then you’ll love what Tidy Favorites does. Not only is it a novel thumbnail-based approach to managing bookmarks, or favorites, it lets you snip pieces from websites and place them into a persistent frame in your browser so that you can mash together several different bits of different websites. It’s like an uber Google Bookmarks and iGoogle working together for any …

If you use a Windows machine, no doubt you’re familiar with the three-finger shuffle – control-alt-delete, invented funnily enough by another David Bradley. This no longer reboots your PC, but brings up Windows Task Manager (you can also use Ctrl-Shift-Esc to do the same). You’ve probably seen all kinds of entries in the processes list in Task Manager such as “svchost.exe”, “jusched.exe”, and “ctfmon.exe” and a few more familiar entries pertaining to the software you’re …

I’ve mentioned cleaning tools for Windows before, among them Crap Cleaner, more delicately known as CCleaner, which almost every time I run it (probably once a month) seems to find several hundred megabytes of rubbish and errant Windows Registry entries, which it cleans up automatically. SysCleanPro is another useful tool for getting rid of cobwebs and there are others that will empty your recycle bin, delete files in your temporary …

Occasionally…words fail me…it’s only very, very occasionally as anyone who invites me to dinner parties, the pub, meetings, any social event knows all too well to the detriment of their aural cavities.

But, today, is one of those days, so instead of an essay here’s a list of the top ten summer successes as measured by visitors reaching the site from Sciencetext short URLs, which are used on social media sites, such as Twitter:…

Mozilla Firefox version 3.5 will be a major new release (it’s due out at the end of June) with a stack of new features. I’ve just started beta testing the latest release candidate (3.5b4) and already noticing improved performance compared with version 3.1, although it’s still not as fast as Google Chrome according to independent reports. The trade-off there is that Chrome doesn’t yet support the various tools and …