Most tech savvy people have figured out how to save music to their Amazon Cloud Drive, but not everyone knows how to save to the Cloud Drive and their PC. Snagging a few gigs of free music is easy too. How to do both is covered here. Please note that the guide covers doing so [...]
Software Development and Spelling in your Source Code
For most developers, keeping your source code’s comments, error messages, check in notes and even variable names free of spelling mistakes is not the most pressing concern. As a developer and a dreadful speller, I’m one of the worst offenders and have been of the understanding it didn’t matter as the mistakes were kept safely [...]
Browser Cleaner, Delete Internet History
In How To Delete Cookies On A Computer and How To Clear A Browser Cache I have shown how to run a manual cleanup to delete the cache and cookies of a web browser. That’s handy to know and helpful in certain situations, for instance if you work on a computer where you cannot install [...]
Putting all your (Easter) Eggs in a Single Basket
I’m well known for being a PC minimalist. I even make a bit of a fuss about this in my book, Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out, that if you want to have to keep repairing problems in Windows one of the best ways to achieve this goal is to keep installing software into it. There’s [...]
Google Cache Link Protector Improves Google Cache’s Functionality Under Chrome
Google caches all websites and pages of that site when it crawls them with its bots. Most cached pages are then linked to from Google Search as well. This can be handy at times, for instance if a website is not responding or down. The cached version provides access to the website’s contents even if [...]
How To Delete Cookies On A Computer
Yesterday I have published a tutorial on clearing the browser cache which is an essential thing to know. Today I’m going to show you how to delete cookies from your PC, which is another basic but very helpful thing to know. This article addresses only standard cookies, not Flash cookies. Cookies are small files that [...]
How To Clear A Browser Cache
Ghacks regulars know how to clear the cache of their web browser. I get support emails occasionally from new readers who do not know how to do that, or who, when asked to clear the cache, do not know how to do it. Telling customers how to clear the cache was a regular thing back [...]
Google Eliminates Google Video Deadline, Service Stays Online
Google recently made the announcement that they would shut down their video hosting service Google Video for good. I have covered the announcement in Google Video Closing Down, What You Need To Know. Google posted two deadlines: The service would shut down for visitors on April 29 which meant that it would no longer be [...]
Hide Additional Plugins are Required To Display Messages In Firefox
When you visit a web page in the Firefox browser that requires a specific plugin to be installed to display all or some of its contents, and you do not have it installed, you see the message “Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page” on the page with an option [...]