This is for the user who enjoys customizing the look of various aspects of Windows. You have already set custom desktop backgrounds and polished up the toolbar. You have set up your own choice of screensavers transcending the basic defaults. Now, what about the Task Manager? Since you like to customize appearances in Windows 7, [...]
Mozilla Firefox 7 Released
With the rapid release cycle and all, we are seeing more releases of the Firefox browser than before. Mozilla just pushed Firefox 7 to the official ftp server to prepare for today’s release of the browser. Firefox 7 is actually the first version of the rapid release cycle that is showing big improvements over previous [...]
Advanced Password Recovery For Windows
Windows users have many options at hand to recover an account password if they cannot remember it and the sign in fails because of this. We have covered a few options in the past, check out Reset Windows Passwords or Create a Windows Password Reset Disk for pointers. Another option if you still can log [...]
Backing up and Restoring Windows Drivers
The hardware driver support in Windows 7 is just fantastic, especially with consumer hardware with more and more companies submitting their drivers for official certification from Microsoft than ever before. This not only means driver support on the Windows 7 installation DVD, but also through Windows Update. You can still find computers however for which [...]
Easeus Todo Backup Free 3.0
The previous free version of Easeus Todo Backup was a recommendation in our Windows backup software overview. Easeus recently pushed out a new version of the program. Easeus Todo Backup Free 3.0 is still a free backup software for Windows. The developers have improved the software significantly. If you know the old version you won’t [...]
Use BCC Instead For Thunderbird For Better Email Privacy
When it comes to sending emails to multiple recipients you have several options at your disposal. The most common options are to use To, CC or BCC for that. The first two options may cause a privacy issue as they reveals all recipient’s email addresses to all recipients. That may not be a problem if [...]
Logging Out Of Facebook Is Not Enough
You may know that your browser sends information to Facebook whenever you visit a web page that hosts a Facebook Like or Share button or other Facebook content. That’s true even if you do not have a Facebook account. If you do have a Facebook account, Facebook gets to know which sites you visit. Some [...]
Google Local Business, Fix We currently do not support the location
Imagine that you have your business setup in Google under Google Places. Users from your town can search using location based queries to get your listing in the results or on Google Maps. Think Plumber Manhattan for instance. If you optimize the listing you usually have good chances to be at the top of the [...]
XSUsenet, Free Lifetime Usenet Access
I’m very cautious when I see sites making claims that they offer a service for free for a lifetime. There is usually a catch, just like there is when you see hosting providers offer unlimited bandwidth, but that’s another story. The Dutch Usenet provider XSUsenet is currently offering free lifetime accounts to access the Usenet. [...]