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How to Set Up a VPN on Windows 7

This is a basic tutorial on how to set up a VPN, or Virtual Private Network on Windows 7. You can use this to set up your own VPN server. This assumes you are using a router to connect to the Internet, and you have permissions to add port forwarding to the settings. You’ll also [...]

Author: , Wednesday August 17, 2011
Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

Mozilla Thunderbird 6.0 Is Here

By joining the rapid release cycle Thunderbird updates have become as frequently as those of the Mozilla Firefox web browser. It is therefor no surprise that Mozilla Messaging has just released version 6.0 of the email client Thunderbird on the same day that Firefox 6.0 was officially released. With that release, the release cycle is [...]

Author: , Tuesday August 16, 2011
Categories: Email

Deactivate Multiple Firefox Add-Ons

Add-ons are still one of the things that set the Firefox web browser apart from other browsers. While there are comparable options for browsers such as Google Chrome and Opera, their implementation is not as wide reaching as that of the Firefox web browser. One of the things however that could be better is a [...]

Author: , Tuesday August 16, 2011
Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Firefox 7 May Ship With New Graphics Component Azure

The Firefox rapid release cycle is up and in full swing. The very nature of it resulted in two Firefox versions with barely any new and exciting features. Both Firefox 5 and Firefox 6, which has been released recently, suffered from lack of time to implement features in the browser. This is now going to [...]

Author: , Tuesday August 16, 2011
Categories: Browsing, Firefox

NirLauncher, All Nirsoft Applications In One Program

One of the quality producers of Windows software is Nir Sofer, who has produced more than one hundred different portable applications for the Windows operating system. Generally speaking, all Nirsoft applications are high quality programs that are highly popular and used by many Windows users. Their portable nature makes them excellent for putting them on [...]

Author: , Tuesday August 16, 2011
Categories: Software, Windows

Microsoft Fix-It To Diagnose Installing, Uninstalling Problems

For most Windows users and most times, installing and uninstalling programs works just fine and without problems or error messages. It can however happen that users receive error messages or notifications at times. This can be because a program won’t uninstall via Window’s Uninstall a program control panel applet, won’t update even though it is [...]

Author: , Tuesday August 16, 2011
Categories: Software, Windows

How To Remove XP Internet Security 2012

In this post I’m going to tell you how to remove XP Internet Security 2012. If you didn’t know, this is a fake security tool that produces fake pop-ups, and fake scan results, with the sole purpose of intimidating you into buying the software. All the viruses and security issues it finds are simply made [...]

Author: , Tuesday August 16, 2011
Categories: Security, Windows

Windows 8 Release Is Coming Closer

Remember how Microsoft marketed the Windows 7 operating system back in 2008 before it was available on retail channels? Right, with a series of blog posts aimed at developers and end users a like, then the beta release followed by the release candidate and RTM version. It appears as if Microsoft is intent do repeat [...]

Author: , Monday August 15, 2011
Categories: Microsoft, Windows

Enlarge Photos On eBay Auction Pages

The photos that users upload to eBay are used to populate the search results and category listings. The eBay auction platform automatically displays thumbnail versions of the uploaded photos on search and category pages instead of the, often larger, versions of the photo uploaded by the eBay user. While that may not be a problem [...]

Author: , Monday August 15, 2011
Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome

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