Over the weekend Martin here reported that Facebook had released their own Guide to Facebook Security “aimed at young adults, parents and educators to educate them about security concepts on the social networking site.”  It’s a 14 page, fairly academic piece that doesn’t address the fundamental issue that Facebook need to get their own house [...]

Categories: Facebook, Tutorials Basic

Microsoft have now released their popular note-taking app, OneNote for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch.  The program, which is part of their Office suite is popular with people wanting to make notes in meetings of who want to jot down thoughts on the go. While built-into the company’s own Windows Phone operating system, iOS is [...]

Categories: iPhone, iPod, Microsoft

Encrypting the files and data on your hard disc can be awkward.  There are various packages you can use to do the job some of which are easy to use and effective and others which are just a pain.  Personally I use the Encrypted File System built into Windows, though I still don’t like it [...]

Categories: Software

I’m delighted to announce that my 170 page Windows 7 Power Users Guide is now completely FREE to download and own as an eBook. The book is for people of all technical ability from complete novices to IT Pros. UPDATE : In the first day of it’s release as a free eBook, the Windows 7 [...]

Categories: ghacks, Tutorials Advanced, Tutorials Basic

The authors of JPG to PDF are giving away a full licence for their product for anyone that wants it until March 22nd 2011.  The software, which you can download here along with your giveaway product key does just a single job, converting a range of graphics file formats to Adobe’s po, but those types [...]

Categories: Software

The PDF converter software, PDZFilla, is now completely free for a limited period.  This isn’t like any other PDF conversion software though as PDFZilla doesn’t convert your documents into Adobe’s portable document format, instead it can convert PDFs back into editable files. It’s main features include… Convert PDF to Word Convert PDF to Word with [...]

Categories: Software

One of the best options to keep an operating system safe is to use virtualization. Virtualization ensures that everything that happens in the virtual environment is not affecting the real computer system. Benefits of this approach include preventing threats from malicious software such as viruses and spyware and leaving no traces on a computer system [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows

If you are new to Linux you might be wondering how you can find out how much free memory your system has or how your memory is being used. For this there are two simple to use applications: top and free. The top application informs you what tasks are running and how much memory and? [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

Creating graphics on a computer affordably can prove a difficult task, especially for images besides rasters. Some people need to create images which can be expanded on massive scales; they need a vector editing application. Adobe Illustrator CS4, the leading vector editor for Mac and Windows, costs £567… a pretty high price tag, you must [...]

Categories: Linux, Software, Windows