With file hosting sites closing left and right after the Megaupload takedown, it has become fairly uncertain if your file hosting service will offer you access to your files the next time you try to connect. Bitcasa is a new file hosting service that is similar to Dropbox in many regards. Bitcasa just like Dropbox [...]
How To control Non-Active Windows With The Mouse
You can only control the active window with your mouse in a default Windows installation. If you need to do something in another window, you need to activate it first, before you can do so. This can for instance be done with a left-click on the window, the program’s taskbar or system tray icon, or [...]
Before Dual Booting: What you Need to Know
The topic of dual booting operating systems has been covered in a few ways on this site, but here is a primer to provide you with some important information before attempting any dual boot. More users today are becoming aware of how useful and practical the Linux operating system is, in all its shapes and [...]
MadApp Launcher For Windows
There are so many great launchers for Windows to make organizing multiple applications easy. One isn’t necessarily better than the other, as this depends entirely on your needs. To add to the collection of possibilities, MadApp Launcher is a tabbed launcher for Windows 7 and Vista that is exceptional for users who have numerous applications [...]
How to Partition and Un-Partition your Hard Drive in Windows
Hard drive partitioning is useful for creating virtual drives and creating disk volumes that can be used for storing particular file types. For example, if you did not want to keep all of your media and documents on Drive (C:), you can create a hard drive partition that will be a new volume separate from [...]
JimmyR.com, Geek Playground!
Rather than discuss software or trends, tweak, tricks and tips, this article is about a great site called JimmyR.com . This site is packed from page to page with all sorts of tech news, information, other news, coding tips for programmers and much more. How is this useful to you? Just go check it out [...]
dotEPUB Google Chrome Extension
You don’t always have the time to sit in front of your laptop or desktop computer and read lengthy material. Google Chrome, which is a fantastic browser in so many ways, brings yet another extension to the Google Chrome features. This extension is called dotEPUB and it enables you to take the text from a [...]
Zumocast Media Streaming
Zumocast is an application for Windows or Mac computers. It is a media streaming application much like Libox and what Apple has recently done with iOS5. Zumocast makes your computer a convenient media streaming server which is accessible through any web browser, mobile devices or iOS devices. It is refreshing to see that there is [...]
Use Smart Defrag For Accurate Defragmentation
As programs are installed and uninstalled and files are deleted, remnants of the files are left behind and sectors of the hard drive become fragmented. Uninstalling programs does not completely get rid of them, fragments of the files and folders remain behind, occupying hard disk space, rendering it unusable for storage. Defragmentation tools are included [...]