As kids, we had our own secret codes and words that we used to communicate when outsiders were around. That was a basic from of cryptography. Computer users today have sophisticated tools at their disposal to encrypt messages, so that only they and designated recipients can understand those messages. Scambled Egg is an Open Source [...]
PayPal, Your Account Has Been Temporarily Limited!
Once a week or so I receive an email from the payment processing service PayPal that notifies me that my PayPal account has been temporarily limited. When I received such a message for the first time, I went all panic for a moment thinking that PayPal – once again – would have screwed me over. [...]
Microsoft’s Tech.Days, and Insider’s View
For all of you who have been to a Microsoft Tech.Day or TechEd event you’ll be familiar with the format. A series of presentations throughout the day, organised into relevant groupings, on various Microsoft technologies and including a scattering of guest speakers from industry. You’ll commonly find that there are no new announcements made at [...]
Getting The Most Out of Windows 7 – Using the Jump Lists.
Jump Lists are undoubtedly one of the most secret efficiency tools that Windows 7 possesses. As you may already know, with previous versions of Microsoft Windows, the Start Menu showed a list of recently accessed files and documents that allowed users to navigate to them with a single click. But with all its ease, this [...]
Internet Explorer Spell Checker, SpeckIE
A major user complaint when it comes to Microsoft Internet Explorer’s functionality in general is the lack of a built-in spell checker to automatically correct spelling mistakes in the browser. That’s even more problematic if those users are working with browsers like Firefox as well which come with a built-in spell checker. It is not [...]
NTFS Permissions Tools
Changing file and folder permissions under Windows is not a comfortable process. You need to click through various menus before you can make the modifications that you want to make. This may including changing ownership of a file or folder, or changing access permissions for a registered user or the system account. The free software [...]
Flip Through Firefox Tabs With The Mouse-Wheel
The Mozilla Firefox web browser offers several keyboard shortcuts to navigate through tabs in the web browser. Firefox users can use Ctrl-[1-9] to access the first nine tabs directly, or Ctrl-Tab to flip through tabs forward and Ctrl-Shift-Tab to move backwards in the tab row. There is also the option to click on a tab [...]
Little Voice Commander, Fun Software For Kids
If you have a young child in your home or a toddler, you usually want to make sure that they do not touch the computer and other electronic equipment, because we all know that they love to smash their little fingers on the keyboard. Kids seem to be attracted to the computer and there are [...]
Network Troubleshooting Basics: Tracert & Pathping
This article is the third in a series of the basics of network troubleshooting. So far ping and ipconfig have been covered. Now tracert and pathping, which are similar commands, will be covered. While this is a basic tutorial, there are some intermediate tips and topics included. The focus will be on Windows based systems [...]