When you uninstall software via Windows’s Uninstall a Program Control Panel applet you often end up with program traces on the hard drive or the Registry. The leftovers are often files that are generated by the application after the initial program installation (and therefor not part of the uninstallation routine). A weakness of the default [...]
InfoBar, Display Hardware, Software Information on Windows Desktop
After reviewing the Quick Access Bar just two days ago, I have another toolbar for you that docks to the top of the Windows desktop. InfoBar is a fully customizable toolbar that can display information about a computer’s hardware,,software and online activities. All information are made available by so called modules. It is possible to [...]
Verify That Amazon Items Are Shipped To A Selected Country
You may remember that I buy most of my computer games and media at the Amazon UK store and not the store in Germany. I benefit in two ways here: First, prices are a lot cheaper than they are in Germany. I sometimes pay 50% less for the same item. Second, I get games and [...]
Speed Up Windows Start-Up By Disabling Unused Network Adapters
Many computers nowadays have more than one network adapter installed. This may include one or two local area network adapters, a wlan adapter and maybe even a Bluetooth adapter. These adapters may slow down the start of the operating system, as Windows scans for available network connections during start-up of the operating system. It does [...]
Google+ Manager For Firefox
Google is supporting its social networking service Google+ with Google Chrome extensions. This includes the Google Translate for Google+ extension for instance that allows users to automatically or manually translate posts on Google Plus. Google+ Manager is a relative new extension for the Firefox web browser that combines access to several handy features in one [...]
Password Generator, Information At Wolfram Alpha
I have to admit that I have not used the Wolfram Alpha search engine as much as I should have in the past year. The specialized search engine, the company calls it a computational knowledge engine, offers some interesting features that other search engines do not offer. One of those features is its password generator, [...]
Improve PC Security by Changing the RDP Port
PC security is comprised of effective firewalls, efficient anti-malware software, WPA and WEP codes as well as several other software-related tweaks and applications. When Remote Desktop is enabled, additional precautions must be taken to minimize the possibility of malware infection and hacking. If the tech at a software company can remotely operate your computer, then [...]
Extension Indexer, Sort Files By Extension
Windows Explorer is optimized for single-folder operations. Here you can sort the files by file extension, name or date for instance. It becomes problematic if you want to do that for a folder and all of its subfolders. While you might be able to use the search for a workaround that works so-so, it is [...]
Firefox 9 Gets Big JavaScript Performance Boost
Good news for all Firefox users, especially those running the latest Nightly builds of Firefox 9 or those planning to upgrade to the new version of the web browser once it becomes available in other Firefox release channels. Mozilla developer Brian Hackett worked on a new feature called type inference for over a year. You [...]