the data storage software Gladinet allows Windows users to mount cloud storage as local folders in Windows Explorer. Supported are not only online storage services like Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Google Picasa, Windows Live SkyDrive, Google Docs and Folders from remote PCs but also online applications like ThinkFree. A later to be released premium [...]
Get to know Linux: Xfce 4
In this most recent series of articles I have been higlighting various Linux window managers and desktops. Most of them are old school and still very relevant. We’ve examined Fluxbox and Window Maker so far. Both of these are very lightweight and fast. Some of them are more modern than others. This time around we [...]
Autoruns 9.5
Autoruns is probably the most popular and advanced Windows startup manager. It is a portable lightweight application that can be used to configure practically anything that deals with files that are loaded during the Windows system start. It goes beyond a simple application that lists programs in some of the possible locations that can contain [...]
Adobe Photoshop Speedup
Adobe Photoshop, among with other products created by Adobe including the notorious Adobe Reader, are known to start slowly. This is one of the main reasons why computer users install and use alternative products which might not offer the full feature set but make up for that in speed and performance. The price of the [...]
Product Reviews Aggregator Testfreaks
Researching products and services before buying them is one of the most important steps in the process. The Internet contains information about virtually any new product and it is possible to form a strong opinion based on user and website reviews. Inexperienced users on the other hand might feel lost or even intimidated by the [...]
Log Into Multiple Accounts At The Same Site With Internet Explorer 8
There was not a way for Internet Explorer 7 users to log into two different Gmail (or Hotmail, Yahoo Mail…) accounts at the same time. Gmail can be replaced with any other cookie based web service that asks the user to login. The problem here is that the cookie storing the information about the login [...]
Create your own file extension icons
I absolutely love all kinds of icons, and not long ago I found a very quick way to make my own simple Adobe-Suite-like icons. All you need is Adobe Air, and an app called Air Icon Generator. The app is from the same people who gave us Bookmarked Generator, and works with the same style, [...]
Get to know Linux: Window Maker
Continuing with our introduction to old-school Linux window managers, I would like to bring to you Window Maker. The Window Maker window manager was designed to look and feel like the old NeXT GUI (which was spearheaded by Steve Jobs after he was forced out of Apple.) Window Maker is another entry in the long [...]
Docx And Xlsx Data Recovery Software
Dealing with corrupted Word documents or Excel spreadsheets especially without access to backups of those documents either because they have not been created in first place or because they are inaccessible in the current location. The only way to deal with corrupted documents is data recovery software. Docx2txt and Xlsx2csv have been specifically created to [...]