Sometimes you may want to benchmark drives or servers connected to your computer system, for instance to compare them to other devices or to test optimizations that you plan to make. Parkdale is a free benchmarking software for the Windows operating system that can be used to benchmark all drives that are currently connected to [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

One of the things that still has not been fixed or resolved in the Windows operating system is that desktop icons change their position automatically when the screen resolution changes. Most Windows users will probably never come into a situation where their desktop icon positions change, considering that most won’t change the screen resolution unless [...]

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Protecting a computer system has become one of the most important tasks for computer users in the past decade. While you had your fair share of viruses, hacks and all that stuff on computer systems like the C-64 or Amiga as well, they have never managed to spread far thanks to expensive modems and data [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows

I remember that both the Commodore C-64 and the Amiga had a thriving public domain, demo and freeware scene. While it was overshadowed by commercial games and applications, it was there and some of the games produced by enthusiasts were well done. If you look at the PC you will find that freeware games and [...]

Categories: Games, Software, Windows

All web browsers save website files automatically to a temporary folder whenever a website is loaded (unless it is a secure website) Html files, images, other media files and CSS files are just some of the files that get saved automatically. The browser cache is actually a great place to find interesting files, images or [...]

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Fake antivirus software has been on the rise in the past years. The term refers to malware that disguises itself as system protection software. Some of those programs fake malware infections to lure the user into buying an upgrade to remove the non-existing threats on the system. Others are plain malicious in nature or are [...]

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It is only a matter of time until software developers find ways to bring features of new or upcoming Microsoft Windows operating systems to previous versions of said systems. One of the first features to get ported to Windows 7 is the new Metro version of Internet Explorer 10 that Microsoft will ship with the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer, Software, Windows

If you are a comic fan you have probably downloaded a fair share of digital comics to your computer. There are several sites on the Internet where you can download comics for free. An alternative to that are online stores where you can buy individual comics or even complete comic series. While that’s not an [...]

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Back in 2009 I reviewed one of the first public versions of DNS Jumper, a portable program for Windows that allowed you to change the system’s DNS with the click of the mouse button. The application back then was released during the “dns craze” where Google and other big players like Symantec entered the market [...]

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