Sometimes you may encounter an ISO file or archive, like zip or rar, that you want to access directly, without burning it to a disk or unpacking it to the hard drive first. A basic example; Say you have a movie on your hard drive in ISO or RAR format. Instead of having to burn [...]
Microsoft Fix-It For Missing, Unrecognized CD and DVD Drives In Windows
When I first installed Windows 7 I was puzzled that my Samsung DVD drive was not displayed in Windows Explorer. Only later did I learn that this was by design. Optical drives with no media inserted do not appear by default in Windows Explorer on Windows 7. That’s fine and users can make a quick [...]
TextCrawler, Software To Replace Text In Multiple Files Updated
Find and Replace text across multiple documents was the name of the TextCrawler review back in 2008. A lot has changed since then and the developer has just released version 2 of the batch text replacement software. Imagine the following situation: You have bought a website that uses plain HTML documents for its contents. Even [...]
Resize TrueCrypt Volumes With Extcv
I have reviewed the open source tool Extcv back in July and came to the conclusion that it offered TrueCrypt users an elegant and unobtrusive option to resize the TrueCrypt volume on the fly. The biggest problem back then was that the software was only compatible up to TrueCryt 6, and incompatible with TrueCrypt 7 [...]
How To Enable Quick Launch In Windows 7
The Quick Launch feature has been disabled by default in Windows 7 by Microsoft. Some users like Quick Launch as a way to quickly start programs from the Windows taskbar. The reasoning behind disabling Quick Start is likely the new Windows 7 taskbar which can be used to pin programs to the taskbar so that [...]
Windows Phone hits 3,000 apps + 1 unlocker
Two interesting Windows Phone stories have emerged today. The first of which is that the phone’s app store now has over 3,000 apps and 15,000 developers. This means we can expect to see an explosion of apps for Microsoft’s new smartphone platform in the next few months. This is fantastic news as many commentators, no [...]
Use Gloobus Preview to preview your files
There are many ways to preview your files in Linux. Most often there is a single application used to preview a different file type. You have the Eye of GNOME for images, the Document Viewer for PDFs, and more. But what about a single application that will preview all types? Is there such a thing? [...]
Firefox 4 Minefield Now With Improved Add-Ons Manager
One of the design elements that I did not like in the development builds of Firefox 4 until now was the add-ons manager. I have reviewed it in detail in the article How To Uninstall Add-ons In Firefox 4. Basically, what I did not like was that it looked kinda messy, hard to read and [...]
Validome, Web Page Validator
One of the aspects of being a webmaster is to make sure that your web pages are compatible with the most popular web browsers. This requires some tweaking and hacks, especially if Internet Explorer 6 comes into the picture. Validating web pages is just one aspect of this. Most browsers handle invalid elements well so [...]