We presently use application managers such as the Active Directory for the verification process while using the access credentials for various Windows Applications and other local network web applications. But as the environment portal changed from the local to external web based SaaS applications the managers like the Active Directory were inefficient as they became [...]
YouTube Playlist, Favorites, Channel, User, Responses Downloader
You find many tools on the Internet that let you download videos from YouTube comfortably. From browser extensions like Download Helper for Firefox to desktop applications like YouTube Snagger or Tubequeue. What most of them have in common is the ability to download individual videos from the video hosting site YouTube. Some even come with [...]
CheckDisk Wrapper
All versions of Windows come with the checkdisk tool to check a connected storage device for errors and issues. It is possible to start checkdisk from Windows Explorer, or from the command line. The start from Windows Explorer is somewhat limited, the command line version does offer additional flags and parameters to customize a scan. [...]
D7, Computer Repair, Troubleshooting Software
The portable application D7 could be a computer technician’s and system administrator’s dream application for repairing and troubleshooting Windows systems. It comes with such a huge feature set that it is difficulty to describe it in a sentence, or even a paragraph. So what can you do with D7? The feature set ranges from running [...]
Dropbox Interview
The popular cloud hosting and syncing service Dropbox has been in the news lately. First there were reports about Dropbox being insecure because of a configuration file that could allow anyone to access a user’s Dropbox storage. Then there were news that photo galleries might be accessible on the Internet without the user’s knowledge. If [...]
RefreshPC, Reset Registry And Services
If you are following the news on Microsoft’s upcoming operating system Windows 8 you may know that the Redmond company is planning to add a restore to factory defaults option to the OS. When you press the button, the system is returned to its initial state, handy for public systems but also for users who [...]
USB Accessories Support on Android
In the recent past the Android users have been facing problems accessing the USB port efficiently for configuring their accessories to the Android powered phones or tablets. To solve these problems Android developers announced an all new Android Open Accessory API which permits the Android devices running on Android 3.1 or 2.3.4 to connect to [...]
JDChrome, Google Chrome JDownloader Integration
JDownloader is one of the most popular programs to download files from file hosting services like Rapidshare, Megaupload or Filesonic. It offers several advantages over downloading files directly from the file host’s website. Among the advantages are a download queue, comfortable integration of premium accounts, link verifications and the option to unpack downloaded files right [...]
Build My Pinned Site, Webmaster Tool
Internet Explorer 9 supports a new pinned site feature that can be used to pin websites to the Windows 7 taskbar. The combination of IE9 and Windows 7 outlines that its reach is somewhat limited at the moment. Websites do not have to support the feature to make it usable. Internet Explorer 9 users can [...]