BackTrack was the winner of our recent Hive Five for best Live CD, so we decided to take it for a test drive and show off a few of the features for everybody else. BackTrack can be installed to a regular boot cd, a USB drive, installed to the hard drive, or even downloaded as a VMware virtual machin...

As a blogger I take so many damn screenshots it almost hurts. As a network administrator I take even more screenshots. Sometimes I have to take a screenie of a website but you can only capture what is actually displayed on the screen hence the name “screenshot”. So what do you do when a ...

I’m doing some tests on my blog right now where I import delicous.com bookmarks using feedwordpress, in an attempt to find interesting and automatic ways to present my wonderful interweb finds. When I started blogging alot of my posts where classic web-logs, often just a link or two and perhap...

If Apple knows how to do anything, it's take tech you've already seen and make it flashier and more fun to use. The new Safari 4 public beta is no exception. Apple says Safari 4's 150 features are "leading the way with innovation," but in reality they're all things we've used before in other browser...

Written by Jonathan Bailey from Plagiarism Today If you’ve ever needed to take a picture of a Web page, grab a logo or otherwise turn page into an image, you know well that it can be a difficult task. Though Windows, Mac and most Linux distros offer some means of capturing screen images built ...

10:11:47 AM Leah Albritton (AIM): BTW: see Nolan eating a banana like a big kid: 10:12:14 AM JEC (AIM): I see that. Why's he scowl all the time? He's going to grow up with a face stuck like mine. 10:12:23 AM Leah Albritton (AIM): He's just kind of a serious kid. He thinks babies who smile all the ti...

Windows/Mac: Postbox is an email client that helps you re-discover all the photos, attachments, and links buried in your email, as well as organize newer mail. Think of it as Thunderbird with a file-managing fixation. In fact, Postbox is based on at least a good chunk of Thunderbird's code, and most...

Windows/Mac: Foxmarks, our favorite way to keep Firefox bookmarks synced across computers, is now offered for Internet Explorer and Safari, giving anyone with multiple computers or browsers a pain-free way to keep it all together. Foxmarks offers basically the same type of background bookmark-syncin...

It may have been a while since you considered using Windows' built-in tools for backing up your data, but for the average user with media and crucial file needs, Windows 7's default backup features look promising. Windows Vista was the first version of Windows to introduce a consolidated Backup and ...

CrunchBang, an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution that sports a snappy, low-drag interface and is perfect for thumb drives, live CDs, or speed-obsessed Linux fans. Check out how it looks and runs in our screenshot tour. Getting started is pretty simple. Head to CrunchBang's main site, find the Download...