USB is currently the most popular way of connecting external devices to the computer. The majority of external storage devices, printers, scanners, audio devices with built in sound chips and other peripherals are connected via USB to the PC. You sometimes may want to prevent that other people connect USB devices to your PC, for [...]
FastestFox, FastestChrom, Faster Browsing Add-ons
I had my eyes on the FastestFox add-on for the Firefox browser for some time now. In the beginning, I thought it was just another add-on to speed up the browser like Fasterfox which tweaks the network performance of Firefox. Turned out that FastestFox, and its FastestChrome clone, offer a lot more than that. The [...]
Top Tips for Securing Your Smartphone
The more we use our smartphones and the more personal and sensitive data we keep on them you’d think the greater target they are for thieves and hackers, right? Well, the fact is that mobile phones are already the number one target for thieves at the very least. Your new phone could be valuable and [...]
Warlight, Risk-Like Game With Advanced Options
When I was young I loved to play the Risk boardgame with friends. The game, like many games from the United States (Monopoly, The Game of Life) was based on luck in the form of dice rolls and a tiny bit of strategy. Missions and cards added a bit of strategy to the game but [...]
Facebook Ticker Now With Sponsored Stories
The Facebook Ticker is a controversial new feature that Facebook introduced in August of this year. It basically displays a history of friend activity on the popular social networking site; It notifies you when friend’s like something or when they leave a comment on Facebook. The core difference between the ticker and the main news [...]
Clear Your YouTube Viewing History, Workaround
Did you know that YouTube saves information about every video that you view on the video hosting site when you are logged into your Google account and also when you are not? And that those video views are saved indefinitely by the service? The saving of YouTube video views may be a privacy issue to [...]
Use RSSOwl To Discover New RSS Feeds
RSSOwl, my feed reader of choice, offers several interesting features that are not apparent on first glance. You may now that I ended up with this Java based feed reader after using online tools such as Google Reader and offline apps like Feed Demon before. The feature that I want to talk about today is [...]
PC Information Tool Speccy Updated, Better SSD Detection
Piriform, company behind popular programs such as CCleaner, Defraggler and Speccy, is currently producing and releasing updates for all their applications to improve SSD detection among other things. Speccy, which has been updated yesterday, is the latest to receive that treatment. And since the last review dates two years back, I thought it is as [...]
How To Remove The Office 2010 Starter Virtual Drive
A few days ago I wrote a brief tutorial about downloading and installing Office Starter 2010 from Microsoft. One of the “side-effects” of installing Microsoft Office Starter on the system is the creation of a virtual drive on the system. This drive is visible in Windows Explorer, usually mapped to letter q or r, but [...]