Growl for Windows is a system and network notification software. Put simply, it informs the user when things happen on the operating system. This can be new email in the Thunderbird email client, a new post on your favorite website or when cpu or computer memory resource usage peaks. The notifications are powered by apps [...]
Windows 8 Tips Roundup
The release of the Windows 8 Developer Preview has caused a huge surge in reviews and tips. The Windows 8 filter in my RSS reader is receiving more than 100 new posts each day since the release. It might take hours to sort through the posts individually. This post here contains a list of some [...]
How To Use A Picture Password Or Pin As Your Windows Password
Windows 8 comes with options to use Windows Live accounts as user accounts on the system, or to use a local account with no ties to the Internet. If security is an issue you have probably selected a secure password for your account log on. That may be inconvenient if you are using a touch [...]
PixBuilder Studio, Free Photo Editing Software
All I personally need when it comes to photo editing software is a fast loading program that can resize images, make small adjustments like adding blur effects to sensitive data and save the resulting image in either the jpg or png format. And that’s it. I obviously do not need Photoshop for this, and even [...]
Increase your Laptop’s Battery Life with Advanced Power Settings
There’s nothing more annoying than digging out your laptop to do some important work, only to find you have 5% battery power left, or worse still the laptop has powered itself down due to no power left at all. Depending on your laptop’s model you can get anything from 1-hour usage to 12 hours, but [...]
TCP Optimizer, Optimize Your Internet Connection
I remember that I had to tweak Internet connections and network adapters under Windows 95, 98 and even Windows XP back in the days to get the most out of the connection. I never touched the network card configuration or Internet connection configuration under Windows 7. This can be attributed to improvements in this area, [...]
PlainClothes, Use Default Web Styles in Google Chrome
I’m not a fan of blue on black text, or link colors that are barely distinguishable from a website’s background. While it is still possible to use a site that uses hard to read color sets, it is usually a lot easier to turn that color set into one that is more pleasing to the [...]
Display All Modified Firefox Preferences
If you are using Firefox as a web browser you have probably made some modifications to it. This can be something simple like a different home page or more sophisticated customizations like about:config under the hood changes. Modified parameters in about:config are highlighted in bold, but there is not a way to display only those [...]
Windows 8 Product Key, When Resetting, Reinstalling
The installation of the Windows 8 operating system should not pose problems to the majority of users. Installation is pretty straightforward and users do not need to enter a product key during installation. It may however come as a shock to some users that they have to enter the Windows 8 product key when they [...]