There are several reasons why someone would want to change the language of the Windows Vista installation. Could be that he bought a laptop in another country that came with a different language than his native language or that someone went to a new country for a job or study and that working with the [...]
A Collection of Tips (Week 2)
It’s been a good week with some great tips and tech articles around the place. Here where my favourites:
Take Back Control Over Your Right Click Menus
An article over on Make Use Of which I particularly liked as I’ve been looking around for a application to do this for a while.
Philipp Lenssen’s Top Google Apps Tips
Some [...]
A Host of Tips – Week 1
As I read my feeds each day I see a whole lot of great little tech tips coming through, and often I want to share them, but that would mean either stretching a whole post out for just one little tip and that’s pretty lame.
So I decided something along the lines of what Martin does [...]
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I’m looking for a handful of Internet maniacs (nerds, geeks) who would like to supply me with links to interesting websites, services, softwares on a daily basis. I’m interested in all sorts of news that can be used to write articles about, take a look around at ghacks to see the topics.
Remove Ntfs Timestamps to speed up Vista
If you are using the nfts filesystem in windows xp you might know this registry hack to speed things up a little bit. The default mode is that every time you alter a file a timestamp will be saved which is for most users completely useless. Some backup programs or synchronizers use this feature but most others don’t.
Join multiple video files into one
Websites sometimes split movies into smaller parts to make it easier for users with low bandwidth access to the internet to download the movies without facing problems like timeouts. Once downloaded it is rather tiresome to view such a movie because you have to click on each part which naturally means a short pause between the last and the next movie.
Faster Access to XP system tools
What do you do if you want to access one of the administrative programs in Windows XP ? You click through various menus most of the time to reach the destination. If you wanted to reach the Device Manager you would have to click on Start, Control Panel, System, Hardware Tab and then the Device Manager.
