If you are a software collector like Roman you often have to deal with different program versions that use the same filename and extension. This can be even more problematic if you want to store all those different versions in the same folder structure. The only valid options so far were to either rename the [...]
Remove Unconnected Storage Device Information From Windows
The Windows operating system keeps records of storage devices that have been connected to the system in the past. This is usually not a huge problem in most cases but some users might want to remove those storage device information from Windows so that no one who would analyse those devices would notice that they [...]
Facebook What Do Quizzes Know About You?
Have you ever asked yourself which information are accessible to quizzes and applications if you allow them to access your account before taking the quiz to find out if you really know everything about becoming a vampire or which superhero your cat resembles most. Most Facebook users might think that those quizzes receive barely any [...]
Christmas Giveaway Panda Internet Security 2010
Panda Internet Security 2010 is an all in one security program for the Windows operating system that protects the computer system in various ways from threats that today’s PC users encounter everyday. The PC program offers antivirus protection, a software firewall, identity protection, Internet browsing protection and backup capabilities. Users of last year’s version of [...]
Google Picasa Downloader
Google Picasa offers online photo hosting capabilities in the form of Picasa Web Albums. Picasa users can upload photos from their local computer systems to the photo hosting servers that can then be shared with friends, family or even everyone by setting the viewing rights to public. Even guests are then able to view and [...]
Manage your fonts in Linux with Fonty Python
I remember, back in the day, when dealing with fonts in Linux was a real problem. At best you were given the xfontsel application, which was an X11 way of displaying the fonts on your system – only in the old-school X11 method (think bitmappy). Fortunately modern Linux distributions have much better fonts and font [...]
National Geographic’s Wallpaper Downloader
National Geographic are offering a wallpaper section on their website that is offering high quality wallpapers in categories like travel, nature, history or animals. Those wallpapers can be freely downloaded in the three resolutions 800×600, 1024×768 and 1280×1024. They do not provide access to a higher resolution unfortunately but those three resolutions that are offered [...]
DNS Server Benchmark Namebench
Google’s entry as a DNS server provider (read: Google Public DNS) has caused quite a stir on the Internet. Some users have experienced privacy concerns while others have started testing and using the new DNS servers right away. The tests so far were inconclusive leaving the individual user with no choice but to benchmark the [...]
Christmas Giveaway Recover My Files
There are basically two options when dealing with data loss. The first is to access data backups to recover files while the second relies on file recovery software to recover the data. What many users do not know is the fact that the operating system is not removing files completely from the hard drive if [...]