No matter what hard drive size you have, if you spend a lot of time on your computer, you will fill it up eventually. A lot of times I have 1Gb stuff which I don’t need and can safely throw out, I just never bump into these because they are outside my normal file browsing [...]
Ubuntu Take 2 – I Think I’m Getting the Hang of Things
First the good news: My laptop finally has access to a working internet connection so the lack of connectivity is no longer a problem with me installing Ubuntu. Now, after last time’s slightly rocky start, I decided to take things slow and devote more time to my second shot with Ubuntu. The biggest difference was [...]
Five reasons you should switch to Linux right now
Over the last few years I have seen the general public go from a general ignorance of the existence of Linux to a general knowledge of it being an option on their computers. Over those same years I have seen the momentum building to this point…this point being the perfect time to make the switch [...]
Free Backup Software – Best Windows Backup Software Programs
Backing up data regularly should be one of the most important tasks of every computer user; Yet only a minority is doing it thoroughly and regularly. The rest is flirting with disaster as there are numerous incidents that can delete data on computer systems. The most common ones are hardware failures, which can mean damaged [...]
Windows Batch File Creation
Windows batch files seem to be a thing of the past for the majority of today’s users. Only some IT guys and those with the preserved knowledge on how to create them use batch files extensively. The majority of Windows users does not probably even know how to create batch files anymore. This is where [...]
Worio Combines Bookmarking And Web Search
Worio is a clever mashup of several search engines, social bookmarking and personalization features. At its core stands the feature to add related information to searches performed by the user. Currently Google, Yahoo, Live and an internal search engine are at the user’s disposal. The search results are displayed on the left including their title, [...]
Software Management: Sysinternals And Nirsoft System Control
Two of the most popular and respected software developers are NirSoft and Sysinternals. They both produce high quality software programs for the Windows operating system that is often considered the best of its kind. The sheer amount of software programs makes it sometimes difficulty to keep an overview of the programs. That’s where the portable [...]
Internet Privacy: Start Panic Tells You Where You Have Been
Internet privacy (also know as online privacy or web privacy) has become a hot topic in the last years as companies, organizations and people with malicious intent try to gather as many data as possible about Internet users. Many users install security software on their computer system and as add-ons in their web browsers directly [...]
Hard Drives Space Visualization
What are the names of the five biggest folders on your computer system? Windows users will have a hard time gathering this information about their hard drives as the operating system comes without an onboard tool to gather those information from connected hard drives. Third party developers have created dozens of tools that provide these [...]