File synchronization can come in handy in several situations. Think of users with multiple computer systems, e.g. a desktop PC and a laptop or netbook. File synchronization can help them to synchronize emails, bookmarks, spreadsheets and every other kind of data that was created or changed on one of the computer systems. It can also [...]
Open Office 4 Kids
The idea behind Open Office 4 Kids is to provide a version of Open Office for children between the age of 7 and 12. The project is in its early stages with version 0.5 recently released to the public. The main difference between Open Office and Open Office 4 Kids are the missing features in [...]
Xkcd Comic Wallpaper Changer
Xkcd is a website where new comics are posted regularly. Most of these comics apply to a geek audience and may cause confusion by the rest of the population. The characters in the comics are drawn as stickmen and there is usually lots of text to accompany the drawings. The comics are provided as single [...]
Directory Size Calculator
The best way to free up some hard drive space is to sort the files and folders of that hard drive by size. Windows Explorer is able to sort the files by size but not the folders. It is possible to get the folder size of one folder by right-clicking on that folder and selecting [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Sep 19th, 2009
- Comments: 7
Software Freedom Day
Today I thought I would diverge away from my usual tutorials so I could point out that today, September the 19th, is Software Freedom Day. Software Freedom Day is a worldwide celebration of FOSS (Free Open Source Software) that aims to enlighten computer users who do not know about the FOSS alternatives. For this day [...]
Don’t Panic Lets You Run And Hide Software Groups
Don’t Panic has been designed as one of those so called “boss applications”. These types of programs allow a computer user to quickly close (or hide) specific software programs so that the boss (supervisor, mother, girlfriend.. you name it) does not see it on the computer screen. Don’t Panic is a highly configurable program in [...]
Firefox 3 History Recovery
Are you a Firefox user who regularly cleans the Firefox history and other traces like downloads from the web browser’s memory? Do you think that these information are really gone and cannot be recovered because you have deleted them? You might want to think again as it is usually possible to recover data on computer [...]
