Users who want to perform a search in Windows usually do so from the Windows start menu where the search link (Windows XP) or search form (Windows Vista and Windows 7) is available. An alternative – and often faster – way of accessing the search interface in Windows is to create a search shortcut on [...]
Rizone’s Power Tools
The Internet is full of software programs that promise to optimize, repair and test the Windows operating system. There are actually that many of them that it becomes hard to keep an overview of the programs available. Rizone’s Power Tools is the newest addition to that niche. It’s benefits to the computer system become apparent [...]
Web Browser Backup Software FavBackup Updated
FavBackup allowed Windows users to backup web browser specific settings. The program was easy to use and supported most major web browsers. Some things were not perfect like missing support for custom or multiple user profiles, portable browser support or the disk and computer memory usage during backup jobs. The developer of FavBackup has recently [...]
HD Video Authoring Software multiAVCHD
HD video authoring software multiAVCHD has been designed to author AVCHD, Blu-Ray, HD DVD, SD-Video, to transfer DVD backups without re-encoding into Blu-Ray or AVCHD format, to watch Blu-Ray disk backups without re-encoding in their Playstation 3 or to create a 1080p menu for up to 252 different files of various formats including MPEG2, Quicktime [...]
Simple gui backup tool backerupper
In my last article I covered the backup GUI Flyback (“Quick and easy backups with Flyback“.) Although it seems development has stopped for that tool, it is still a viable solution. Does that mean it’s the best solution? No. There are far better GUI tools for easy desktop backup. One of those tools is Backerupper. Backerupper is [...]
Use Process Monitor To Optimize The Windows Boot Process
There are not a lot of tools available for the Windows operating system that measure and optimize the Windows boot process. The mysterious Microsoft Bootvis, which was later retracted by Microsoft, or Boot Timer, a program that can only measure the boot speed, are just two programs to measure the boot speed. Many tips exist [...]
Software UpToDate Finds Updated Versions Of Windows Programs
Tools that scan a Windows operating system for software and check online if this software is outdated always face two problems: quality and magnitude. The quality problem mainly deals with false positives while the magnitude becomes obvious if the software does not recognize installed software programs because they are not integrated in their database yet. [...]
Leaked Hotmail Password Data Analysis
Remember back then when AOL decided to provide downloads of an anonymized snapshot of their search engine logs? One of the first things that Internet Marketers did was to analyze the data to see what users where looking for. Groups focused on privacy would analyse the data to see if it was possible to identify [...]
Adobe Reader Security Vulnerabilities
Adobe has posted information about a known critical security vulnerability affecting Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat on Windows, Mac and Unix operating systems. According to Adobe there are reports about a limited attack on the Windows versions of Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat 9.1.3 (and most likely earlier). A patch that is fixing the issue [...]