The Internet can be a very helpful and even rewarding location for researching products before making a purchase. Users find all kinds of information about products like digital cameras online from price comparison websites over digital camera reviews to photos that have been uploaded by owners of those cameras. The Snapsort portal is another resource [...]
Linux command line tips
I thought it would be useful to break away from all the GUI-goodness and offer up a few command line tips and tricks. Why? No matter how powerful, user-friendly, and modern the Linux desktop becomes, there may come a time when you want to step up your game and get down and dirty with the [...]
Tab Utilities Improve Tab Management In Firefox
Tabbed browsing is currently the state of the art in all popular web browsers. It is not a perfect solution though especially for users who happen to open lots of tabs in a browsing session. That’s probably one of the reasons why some browser developers are considering switching to a different system. One of the [...]
Configure Hotkeys With WinHotkey [Windows]
The Windows operating system comes pre-configured with many hotkeys that allow the user to perform operations with just the computer keyboard. These hotkeys usually make use of a combination of the four special keys Alt, Ctrl, Shift and Windows as well as a single additional key on the keyboard. There is however no hotkey manager [...]
What Is My Computer Doing [Windows]
Have you ever asked yourself why the computer’s hard drive is trashing like mad or why everything seemed to come down to a halt without you doing anything on the computer right now? What’s My Computer Doing is a free software program for the Windows operating system that tries to shed light to those questions. [...]
AllMySongs Database Review [GotD]
AllMySongs Database is a music organization software with a strong focus on tagging and information related to the music in general. Music needs to be added to the database on the start. This is done by selecting a root folder on the computer drive and letting the program search that folder – and optionally – [...]
Remote searching with Beagle
Searching your desktop for files can be a real pain without the right tools. Every desktop has one (ore more) search tools that can be used to search for that missing file. Linux is not an exception. One of my favorite search tools for the Linux desktop is Beagle. You can read about the basics [...]
Uncover File Manipulations With File Checksum Integrity Verifier [Windows]
File Checksum Integrity Verifier is a free command line program by Microsoft that can be used to create and verify md5 checksums of files in a specific folder. The program can for instance be used to check if files in a specific directory have been modified which is often the case if malicious software has [...]
Incorrect Password Or Not A True Crypt Volume [Troubleshooting]
One of my True Crypt partitions failed to mount after a recent system crash. I entered the right password and received the message “Incorrect password or not a True Crypt volume”. I knew the password was correct which only left the option that it was not recognized as a True Crypt volume anymore. The drive [...]