The Bing homepage and the Google homepage have several things in common. They both embed a search form prominently on the page. The page itself has been designed to be almost distraction free. Both pages have something else in common; Media on the page. The Google page displays so called Doodles instead of the standard [...]
Windows Repair, Troubleshoot Windows Issues
When you are using Windows regularly, you likely run into issues eventually. This can be easy to fix stuff like running out of disk space or broken shortcuts to more serious problems like a virus infection or programs that won’t start up anymore. The troubleshooting and repair depends largely on the issue that is experienced [...]
InFormEnter, Fill Out Forms With Preconfigured Text
Automation can speed up a computer user’s workflow immensely. One of the areas where computer users can save lots of time is when they are filling out web forms. This can be a comment form where they have to enter a name, email address, web address and comment or a customer support form where they [...]
Windows 8, Boot Security And Third Party Operating Systems
Things got heated up quite a bit in the past two days as Microsoft started to reveal information about boot security in Windows 8. The main concern raised by Matthew Garrett and others was that secure boot could prevent the installation and use of third party operating systems like Linux on an OEM system running [...]
Why You Should Encrypt Your Wi-Fi
If you go out to the computer store and buy yourself a new router and take it home, you’ll probably find that it will work straight out of the box. Most these days have wizards that help you to configure settings to connect to your Internet service quickly and easily. Most routers also are set [...]
WinParrot, Record, Play Recurring Tasks In Windows
Do you repeat some tasks over and over again? Maybe start an application every day, send an email to someone or enter data from a spreadsheet into a program? If you have a task that is identical every time, you could use a software like WinParrot to automate the task for you. The free program [...]
zInstall launch new Type-0 Hypervisor
Virtualisation specialist zInstall have previously impressed with their products that include utilities to capture an existing Windows XP, Vista or any other operating system installation and allowing you to boot from it on any other computer from an external hard drive or suitably-sized USB pen drive. This software meant you could take all of your [...]
The Image Collector, Download Images From The Internet
Most applications that you use to download images from the Internet are browser based. There are a handful of exceptions though, like the excellent Bulk Image Downloader which makes it a lot easier to download a lot of pictures from websites. The Image Collector is a free software for Windows that works without a browser. [...]
Mozilla Proposes Extended Support For Firefox
Mozilla as you may know switched to a rapid release process this year which basically had the consequence that new Firefox versions get released more frequently. Not every user, and especially not organizations and businesses, have welcome this new process. One of the concerns that users had was that there was not enough time to [...]