When you move the mouse around on your system you will soon realize that borders have been placed at the edge of the screen to prevent it from falling off the earth. And while that may make sense to avoid confusion, it may also mean more mouse movement on the screen as you cannot just [...]
TeamViewer 7 Available, Lots Of New Features
TeamViewer is without doubt one of the most popular remote access and support applications. Part of the software’s success stems from the fact that it is free for personal use and portable if needed. Nothing beats installing TeamViewer on family or friend computer systems to save time fixing computer problems. TeamViewer 7 is now available [...]
Play Playlist .PLS Files In Windows Media Player
The playlist (.pls) file format is without doubt one of the most popular formats when it comes to Internet radio stations. All it takes to tune into a radio station is to open the .pls file in a compatible player. Whenever I try to load a playlist file on my system Windows makes the suggestion [...]
Sky History, Manage Skype Chat History And Call Logs
The Skype software lacks options that allow users to better manage the program’s chat history and call logs. As far as chats go, there is no option to delete specific messages from within Skype. While there is an option to clear the Skype chat history manually, it requires at least a basic understanding of using [...]
Use Pixiv Tool To Download Pixiv Images Automatically
Pixiv is a popular Japanese art community that is in many regards similar to Deviant Art. Pixiv artists concentrate mostly on drawings, either on the computer or on paper or other materials, and less on other forms of art. The website supports manga and novels as two other forms of art that can be uploaded [...]
Spyware Blaster Blocks Spyware Related Threats Passively
Many spyware programs on today’s market, regardless of being free or commercial, concentrate on the removal of spyware and other forms of malware on the PC system. Only a few try to block spyware before it makes its way on to the computer. Spyware Blaster focuses on preventing attacks from happening in the first place. [...]
Cyberduck File Transfer Software
When it comes to file transfer software, I have been using WinSCP for the past years. But there have been other applications that I looked at and evaluated. Cyberduck is one of them. Back in March I published a guide on how to upload multiple documents to Google Docs from the desktop and Cyberduck was [...]
Researchers Successfully Hack HDCP High-Def Copy Protection
Ever since the Blu-Ray video format was first announced, it has been claimed that the copy-protection on the system was uncrackable. This is because is uses technology in your HDMI port to determine the authenticity of the video source. Without this technology built into the port’s circuitry Blu-Ray video simply won’t work, which caused problems with some [...]
How To Extract Images From Office Documents
Office documents may contain images and other media besides text. I sometimes get article suggestions by email in Microsoft Word format. These articles often contain one or multiple images that I need to extract, since it is not possible to copy and paste them into the article on the Internet as it is with text [...]