We could all use some handy tips now and then. Wouldn’t it be great if they were, quite literally, at our fingertips? If you are a Ubuntu user, those tips can be at your finger tips with the help of a handy tip applet. This applet works in conjunction with the Fortunes application and serves [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

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 [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

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 [...]

Categories: Knowledge

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 [...]

Categories: The Web, Tools, Tutorials Basic

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.

Categories: ghacks

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.

Categories: Operating Systems, Windows

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.

Categories: Knowledge

A friend of mine asked me to take a look at his computer because it reacted slowly and took ages to boot. He was running windows xp home and shared the computer with his wife and his two lovely girls who unfortunatly decided to install lots of “female” orientated applications like riding games, animated screensavers and the like. After getting rid of 185 spyware entries I told him that he could speed up his pc which had only 256 Mb if he would disable some features of windows xp.

Categories: Knowledge, Operating Systems, Windows