It’s rather strange that Windows does not ship with an easy way to configure keyboard shortcuts in the system. Enter HoeKey. A lightweight portable software that can be used to configure various advanced keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard shortcuts can be edited and added to the computer system by editing a ini file that contains all the [...]
Mp3 Music Playlists In Firefox
If you regularly come upon websites that list direct links to mp3 music files you might find the Firefox extension Play Them All handy. Play Them All automatically scans the entire website for links to mp3 music. It creates a m3u file – that’s a playlist file – containing all the mp3 music files found [...]
PHP – what it does and what it doesn’t
PHP is a Server side scripting language. Its primary competitors are ASP (Microsoft), JSP (Sun), CFM (Adobe), and Perl (often called cgi by hosting companies, although it is not the only cgi language). PHP was originally created in 1995, so as a technology it is fairly mature. Version 5.x is the latest stable version and [...]
Increase USB Security With USB Cop
The Autorun feature is a big security risk on the Windows operating system. It is a risk even if you are the only person accessing the computer. Remember the Sony rootkit incident a while ago? Guess how Sony managed to install the rootkit on the computer system? Autorun can be disabled in Windows and this [...]
Get Free Photoshop Tutorials with Vunky Search
Whether you are a novice or an intermediate user in the world of Photoshop, everyone can use tutorials. Even if a person is comfortable with the software, tutorials are a great way of introducing oneself to new styles and concepts and pretty much be amazed by what you can create with Photoshop. If you’re looking [...]
Learning Linux: Log Files
If you are serious about learning Linux then one aspect you will want to familiarize yourself with is log files. This concept will help you to understand why when you go to a mailing list with a problem and, when someone asks you the contents of a particular log file, you are able to offer [...]
Rar Password Cracker
Rar archives can be protected with a password that has to be supplied before the archive can be unpacked on a computer system. Problems do arise if the password of an archive is not known (anymore). One could try and enter possible combinations manually which could take years to complete or use a rar password [...]
How To Use Multiple iTunes Libraries
Not many iTunes users know that it is possible to use multiple iTunes libraries on the same computer system. There is virtually no information about running multiple iTunes libraries once iTunes has been started. Before we explain how to setup multiple iTunes libraries we should analyze why someone would want to work with several iTunes [...]
Automatic Data Compression
The NTFS file system supports file compression which basically means that it is possible to reduce the sizes of files stored on a NTFS volume to save hard drive space. The compression algorithm is Lempel-Ziv compression which is a lossless algorithm which means that no data will be lost when applied. This as a rule [...]