Good archiving software combines support for popular formats such as zip or rar with solid performance and light resource usage. I’m currently using two different programs: 7-Zip for all my archiving needs and the excellent Extract Now for extracting multiple archives at once. Why two and not just one program for all unpacking and archiving [...]

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Kid3 is a handy versatile audio tag editor for Windows, Linux and Macintosh computer systems. The program offers options to edit and convert various ID3 tag formats. The supported formats include mp3, flac, mp4 and wma among others. Probably the biggest selling point of the program is the integration of multiple online music databases. This [...]

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I like simple colors when it comes to my user interface in Windows. I do not need transparency, fancy color schemes, shadows and other effects. That’s why I use the Aero Basic theme and not the standard Aero theme. But there are users who like the full blown Aero interface with everything enabled. The latest [...]

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Steganography, what’s that again, and how does it compare to encryption? Steganography refers to techniques that hide messages or data, encryption on the other hand to techniques that protect a file from unauthorized access by encrypting it. The classic example to explain the concept of steganography is a message hidden inside an image file. No [...]

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4chan regulars, who like the site because of its vast pool of images that get uploaded to the website every minute, often utilize software or extensions to download images automatically, or at least semi-automatically from the popular Internet message board. 4chan Downloader is on first glance just another tool for the job. The program takes [...]

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The Open Source software jPDF Tweak offers options to manipulate one or multiple pdf documents. Have you ever felt the need to split or merge pdf files, move pages around or add watermarks to a number of pdfs? If you answered yes to at least one of the questions then jPDF Tweak is the software [...]

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I own a few boardgames that I can rarely play at home or a friend’s house. Why? There are several reasons for this. I’m often unable to find enough players that like a specific game to play it. Britannia and Civilization come to mind. These games last upwards of four hours and it is hard [...]

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Skins.be is a popular high quality celebrity and model wallpaper website on the Internet. Wallpapers on the site are constantly updated and offered in several resolutions. Wallpapers can be downloaded in the most appropriate resolution to the local computer system to use them as desktop backgrounds. The free application Skins.be Downloader automates that process. The [...]

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True System Security Tweaker offers to change, enable or disable more than 450 security related settings in Windows. The portable application concentrates on user restrictions that are grouped into categories in the application interface. More than 20 categories are available of which some link to sub-categories. Among them security settings for Internet Explorer, the Windows [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows