If you are living in the UK, or another country where access to the popular Bittorrent indexing site the Piratebay has been blocked, you may have wondered what this is all about. In the U.K. for instance, major ISPs have agreed to block access to the site. If you are a customer of one of [...]
Windows 8′s Boot Experience Will Be Different
When there is something wrong with my Windows 7 desktop PC, I tend to hammer on the F8 key during boot to get into the advanced boot options. Here I can then repair or recover from issues that I may experience at that time. With Window s8, that process will be completely different. The main [...]
Quick check your system for problems with System Security Guard
As you may know, I like to run portable security programs from time to time on systems that I own or administrate as part of a system’s regular maintenance. For that, I also like to test new programs that come up, or have slipped passed me previously. System Security Guard is a free portable program [...]
Easiest way to show windows side by side in Windows
When I’m working on a computer that is connected to a single monitor, I often like to display two windows side by side, especially when writing a new blog post. I usually display the WordPress admin interface where I write the post in one window, and the developer web page or another source in the [...]
MediaPlus for Chrome gives you better Flash, HMTL5 Controls
If you work with Flash or HTML5 contents regularly, be it in form of video players, web games or applications, you may find that the lack of options to control the contents a disadvantage. One of the biggest complaints in this regard is the lack of options when it comes to changing the size of [...]
OwnCloud 4 Released, Now With Encryption, Versioning, More
Computer users who want to store data in the cloud, or synchronize data between their own devices, have the choice between so many different cloud hosting services that it is becoming quite difficulty to keep an overview over all of them. If you prefer full control over your data, ownCloud may be an option, as [...]
Make Firefox More Responsive With Suspend Background Tabs
If you work with many tabs in Firefox, you may have some websites that leech away the computer’s processing power even when they are running in the background. Some websites for instance update contents automatically even if they are running in a background tab, others may play Flash contents like advertisement. The Firefox add-on Suspend [...]
How To Prioritize File Downloads In uTorrent
When you load a torrent with multiple files into the uTorrent Bittorrent client, you will notice that uTorrent by default will not prioritize any file in particular. While that may not be an issue most of the time, especially not if the torrent is well seeded. There are however situations where you may want to [...]
Microsoft set to improve Windows Multi-Monitor support
Microsoft re-published the multi-monitor article on the Building Windows 8 blog that was published earlier this week and then pulled again. In it, Microsoft reveals how the company intents to improve multi-monitor support in the next version of Windows that will come out later this year. The article begins a breakdown on current multi-monitor supported [...]