The command line tool openfiles has been part of the Windows operating system for a long time. It basically can be used to display all system files that are currently opened by users of the same computer network. One of its applications is to analyze file access errors. It is for instance usually not possible [...]
Download, Backup Flickr Photos With Fotobounce
Google recently changed Picasa’s free photo hosting storage limit to unlimited for photos with a maximum resolution of 2048×2048 (for Google+ users, standard Google users have a resolution limitation of 800×800). This might be reason enough for some users to migrate their photos from another hosting service, Flickr or Facebook for instance, to Google Picasa. [...]
Brighten Your RSS Feeds with NewsSquares
Not all RSS readers are the same. Indeed, some are far more useful than others and deserve to be pulled from the pack. One such reader is NewsSquares, a Chrome app specifically catered to the interests of news readers. While still in the final beta stages, NewsSquares is a great way to browse your various [...]
Automation Tools Simplify Repetitive Mouse Clicking and Opening Multiple Files Simultaneously
Automating our machines can help us shorten the time it takes to do specific tasks or keep our computers from timing out of processes that we really want them to keep doing. While there are many programs out there for such tasks, tracking down the ones that suit your specific interests can be a long [...]
Time To Drop The Box? Dropbox Modifies TOS
It seems that the popular file syncing and hosting service Dropbox cannot break the negative news pattern of the last weeks. The company announced a change to their policies on Friday which they received lots of flak for. The original news post on the Dropbox company blog has been updated twice to clarify the issue. [...]
PsychoFolder, Rule Based Folder Monitor
There are lots of reasons why you’d want to monitor a folder on your system. Maybe it is a shared folder and you want to know if files are added, deleted or changed in the folder, or maybe you’d like to monitor your Internet download folder to copy specific files that you sometimes download to [...]
Why Smartphone Security Has to Come Front and Centre
For the last few days I’ve been using the new beta update to Microsoft’s smartphone operating system, Windows Phone, on my HTC handset. I’ve written a full hands-on review of this ‘Mango’ update at our sister website Windows7News. It’s a great update and finally brings full cloud services to smartphones with the integration of SkyDrive [...]
Facebook’s Circle Hacks is Fun, but a Thinly-Veiled Reproduction of Google+’s Circlets
It seems the Facebook development team is not at all amused by Google+’s way of handling groups. The new social networking network utilizes “circlets” – small units in which you can arrange your groups of friends. The idea is that you might find the process of choosing and organizing friends less fabricated than on Facebook. [...]
Google+ Privacy, Notifications, What You Should Check
I received my Google+ invite this morning and have been playing around with Google’s “answer” to Facebook since then. The thing that I like about it most is the circles feature which allows you to create groups of friends or contacts. One of the problems that Facebook currently has is that you do not have [...]