If you look at the available gadgets for Windows Vista and Windows 7 you notice that most provide the same features like displaying hardware stats, time and date or media related information. Windows users have to dig deeper to find gadgets that do not belong in a category that is swarmed with the same type [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 3
Duplicate File Finder SoftChronizer
Every computer users will eventually run into issues with duplicate files on the computer system. Some more than others but it is fair to say that every PC contains at least a few duplicate files and a lot if the user downloads regularly in batch from the Internet. SoftChronizer is a duplicate file finder for [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 6
SMPlayer 0.6.9. Out
Windows users have two choices when selecting a media player: Select a player that makes use of system wide codecs or a player that comes equipped with all codecs. The later players offer the advantage that it is usually not necessary to go codec hunting to play a video on the computer system. SMPlayer is [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 3
Open Hardware Monitor Displays Realtime Information About The Computer
Some computer hardware parameters change regularly while the computer is running. This includes the hardware temperature, clock speeds and voltages which should be monitored regularly to ensure that they are running in their allowed limits. It becomes even more important after building a pc and running it for the first time or when errors are [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: None
MultiStage Recovery 4.1 Review
If you have ever accidentally deleted a file in Windows or noticed that files have been deleted by hardware failures or computer virus attacks you know that file recovery software is the only option besides regular backups to access those files again. Windows users have the choice between many free and commercial data recovery programs [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 5
Secure Erase Files With Blank And Secure
It is sometimes necessary to ensure that files cannot be recovered by normal means. This can for instance be important before selling a hard drive on eBay, installing confidential software on a third part computer (and erasing it afterwards) or after downloading stuff on the Internet that you do not want anyone to find out [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 10
PeaZip 3 Data Compression Software Released
Windows users have quite a few choices when it comes to data compression software programs. They can opt for the commercial dinosaurs WinZip or WinRar for instance or free alternatives like 7-Zip, IZArc and also PeaZip. PeaZip just recently has been updated to version 3 that introduces several new options and features. Peazip 3 is [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 2
Keep Chromium Up To Date
Chromium is the Open Source project behind Google Chrome. Chromium and Google Chrome have many similarities and it is usually the case that new features are integrated into Chromium first before they make they way into the Google browser. One problem that Chromium users experience is that the web browser does not come with an [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 3
Automatic RSS Feed Attachment Downloader
The most common type of RSS feeds is textual. But there are also feeds with regular attachments like photo, video or audio attachments. Some RSS feed readers automatically download those attachments if the feed has been added to that reader while others do not do it or do not provide a comfortable option to download [...]