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  • Author: Joe
  • Published: Mar 4th, 2009
  • Comments: 5

Analyse your hard disk and stop wasting space

Your hard disk space may seem increasingly small but you may not be aware what is taking the space. I, for example, subscribed to dozens of podcasts but naively overlooked them when trying to clear space. In fact, they took up 5GB of space!
Whilst disk space is no longer seen as a problem, considering 1GB [...]

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Categories: Linux, Mac, Tools, Windows, software

  • Author: joshua
  • Published: Sep 1st, 2008
  • Comments: 4

The Best Free Guitar Tools

I’m going to go slightly off-topic today and share some of my recent finds with you, I hope some of you will find them helpful!
Guitar Tabs are an incredibly easy way to learn guitar. In fact an incredible number of famous and popular musicians have never used sheet music in their life, either using guitar [...]

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Categories: software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 18th, 2008
  • Comments: 1

Extract Resources From Files

ResourcesExtract is a portable Nirsoft application that can automatically scan a directory for resources in files and extract them to a specified destination directory. Unlike the previously covered Icons Extract which can extract icons from files ResourcesExtract can extract a wider range of resources from files.
ResourcesExtract scans all dll, exe, ocx and cpl file for [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: joshua
  • Published: Jun 15th, 2008
  • Comments: 23

A Few Defragmentation Tools

My defragmenter of choice has always been Auslogic Defragmenter, I have no idea how effective it is compared to other programs but it’s simple enough and looks pretty.
However I came across Piriform Defraggler the other day and I was interested in one feature it had… individual file and folder defragmentation. At first I thought this [...]

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Categories: Tools, Windows

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 28th, 2008
  • Comments: None

Windows Shell Enhancer

I seldom run into an application that is as hard to describe as Shell Enhancer. When you install the application you can configure some settings of it and I was really blown away by the amount of options the program was throwing at me. I cannot go back to that dialog but it seemed [...]

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Categories: Operating Systems, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 16th, 2008
  • Comments: 6

Customize the Windows System Clock

Windows is only displaying the current time in hours and minutes in the system tray and detailed information can only be accessed with a double-click on the clock. A double-click opens a detailed view that is showing the seconds and the date as well. If you want to display those information in the system tray you have to use third party software like TClock Light which adds the functionality to Windows (except Windows Vista).

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Categories: Operating Systems, Windows, software

WinLibre, your open source software library

I was thinking on rounding up some of the net’s best freeware apps and putting them into one easily installable pack. As these things go, it seems like some clever people have beaten me to it. While I am a bit sad, I am actually really happy to have found this, since they did a [...]

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Categories: Open Source, Tools, software

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