Windows users have lots of choices when it comes to playing music on their computer. They can make use of Windows Media Player for instance, or download and install a third party music player like iTunes, Winamp or AIMP3. The choice of available program shrinks significantly when it comes to software that not only plays [...]
- Author: Melanie Gross
- Comments: 18
Use Smart Defrag For Accurate Defragmentation
As programs are installed and uninstalled and files are deleted, remnants of the files are left behind and sectors of the hard drive become fragmented. Uninstalling programs does not completely get rid of them, fragments of the files and folders remain behind, occupying hard disk space, rendering it unusable for storage. Defragmentation tools are included [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 266
Sandbox Programs With Sandboxie
A sandbox in computing in layman terms puts a border around programs running in the sandbox so that they run isolated from the rest of the system. This protects the rest of the system if the sandboxed program is attacked or exploited. Sandboxing can be a very effective option when testing programs, running files where [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 277
Revo Uninstaller Pro Review
Program removal under Windows is often not as thorough as it should be. It happens more often than not that program traces remain on the computer. This can be empty folders, files that the program created after installation or Registry entries. And while that’s usually nothing to worry about, it may have consequences. Among them [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 20
uTorrent 3.1 Stable Now Available
If you have followed uTorrent’s development closely in past weeks you have probably asked yourself if the developers would ever stop releasing release candidate versions of uTorrent 3.1. The developers went through ten release candidate builds before they released the final version of uTorrent 3.1 yesterday. Another update was rushed on the same day to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 5
Calendar Magic, All Calendar Information You Ever Need
The Windows operating system ships with a basic calendar that’s linked to the system’s date and time settings. A click on the system clock displays the current month with options to display other months instead. But that’s all the functionality that is offered by the system calendar. If you are looking for additional information, you [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 5
TweetDeck Update Brings Native PC and Mac Clients
Remember TweetDeck, the Adobe Air Twitter client that offered better faster access to all things Twitter? Adobe Air was not the only platform TweetDeck was offered on. A web based version and Google Chrome application were offered as well by the developers. TweetDeck made the list of Melanie’s Top 5 Twitter Add-ons and has been [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 71
DriveScrubber Review
You may sometimes want to make sure that data on a drive is deleted permanently. Permanently in this case means that it cannot be recovered with recovery software. Many computer users do not know that the data remains on the drive even if they delete it from the recycle bin. When it is out of [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 5
Use Big Colored Taskbar Buttons With Taskbow
Microsoft has made changes to the taskbar in Windows 7. One of the new features is the ability to pin programs, and with some tweaking files and folders to the taskbar for easier access. The size of open windows in the taskbar has been reduced to the program’s icon. Users can hoover over open windows [...]