The Windows operating system saves thumbnails in a file called thumbs.db whenever you change the folder view mode to thumbnail view. This basically caches the image thumbnails so that they are displayed faster the next time you open that folder with that view mode. I personally have disabled the thumbnail creation on my system as [...]
Ultimate Football Results For Google Chrome
Many football fans use the Internet regularly to check for football scores, results, tables, fixtures and news. While it is easy to open the homepage of your favorite football club to read up on the latest news, you could also visit sport news portals like BBC Sport that cover all big European leagues and competitions. [...]
Cleaning Out Windows Live Mesh Temporary Files
Windows Live Mesh is a great little program that can synchronise your files across multiple PCs. laptops and tablets as well as creating an online backup of up to 5Gb using Microsoft’s SkyDrive service. It’s not without its flaws though and can fill up your hard disk with useless temporary files that it can forget to [...]
BlueStacks, Android Apps On Windows Now Compatible With XP, Vista
With so many new and exciting apps coming out for mobile operating systems like Apple’s iOS or Google’s Android, it only is natural that some users want those apps to work on their desktop PCs as well. Maybe they want to utilize the bigger screen of their computer system, show off an app or device, [...]
Hardwipe, Erase Hard Drives Securely
I usually give away old computer systems to friends or family when I build a new one. And since I’m building a new PC every one or two years, there seems to be always someone who could make good use of my old computer system. I prepare the old systems before I give them away. [...]
Speak UP: Text-to-Speech Software with a Translation Feature
Text- to-speech applications are plentiful. They are showing up on web browsers like Google’s Chrome Speak and Firefox’s text-to-speech plugin. Then there is speech-to-text software such as Dragon and many others including the built-in feature in Windows 7. If you are searching for text-to-speech software that is free and does more than just give you [...]
Firefox 8.0.1 Officially Available, What You Need To Know
You may remember that I published a news article on November 16 about the release of Firefox 8.0.1. The release was available on Mozilla ftp servers and on third party sites like Softpedia, but not officially announced by Mozilla on the Firefox website. While that has not been a big problem in the past, with [...]
News360 Periscope, Related News On Popular Online News Sites
Sometimes when you read news on a site you may be interested in additional information or perspectives for a deeper understanding and better picture. While you could use a search engine for that, you could also try the browser extension Periscope of the news aggregation service News360. The extension basically works like related post links [...]
McAfee Singles Out Android for Malware Problems
It would appear that Google’s unfortunately lax approach to vetting apps submitted to the Android store is counting heavily against the platform, as McAfee have released figures showing it is now becoming the biggest target for malware writers. Nokia’s now mostly retired Symbian operating system still sits in a resounding first place with just under [...]