Fake virus alerts are a common yet dangerous weapon often used by cybercriminals. These alerts masquerade themselves as legitimate security warnings, tricking users into actions that end up compromising their own digital […]
Microsoft SyncToy is a free program by Microsoft that adds data synchronization capabilities to supported Windows devices. The advancements in digital storage technologies made manufacturers use digital storage in different types of […]
Flickr is best known for being a photo uploading and publishing portal with a vast community of contributors. Lesser known is the video part of the website. Video uploads are limited to […]
Viewing the source code of a website is a standard feature in all web browsers. A right-click on any web page opens a context menu with an option to view the source […]
Route Converter is a free software program for Microsoft Windows devices to display, edit, and manage GPS routes, tracks, and waypoints. The past couple of years have seen a huge increase in […]
What Changed is a free program for the Windows operating system that provides you with options to compare system snapshots to find out which items have been changed in the Windows Registry […]
Users who want to update their Windows operating system can use the automatic updates feature to download updates for Windows automatically, visit the Windows Update website in Internet Explorer or use one […]
From time to time I read an article on the Internet about a new technology or software that makes me jump up and down and clap my hands at the same time. […]
It’s getting pretty hard to get excited about online image and photo editors seeing as they’re a dime a dozen. However just today I discovered one which I particularly liked and thought […]
ResourcesExtract is a portable Nirsoft application for Windows that you may use to scan a directory automatically for file resources. Resources found during scans can be extracted and saved to a directory […]
System Protect can protect custom files and folders as well as system files in Windows. By default all files and folders that are necessary to run the operating system are protected by […]
Tiny Watcher is a free program for Microsoft Windows that monitors important folders, files and Registry locations on Windows machines. It is virtually impossible to keep an overview of all the system […]
Firefox displays one row for its tabbed browsing feature by default with no apparent option to add more tab rows to the browser. Tabs get reduced in size if the user opens […]
I’ve always loved the ease in which multiple desktops are accessible in Ubuntu (and other Linux OS’s as well I presume, I haven’t tried any) and find myself wishing for the same […]
I received an email today from a user who was asking me how to download the latest version of Internet Explorer. I was a bit puzzled by that request but decided to […]
Many users shy away from updating the computer bios of their motherboard probably because of the fear of damaging the motherboard irreparably. Methods have evolved in the last years and it is […]
Internet Explorer's Content Advisor works as a safeguard and web filter so that family members might not open websites that are not suited for them. The Content Advisor is pretty much a […]
Most users would probably agree that Apple's iTunes software is not a lightweight application. To the contrary. The application is huge and some will see it as an overkill if you only […]
As far as file-sharing protocols go, BitTorrent has emerged as one of the leading P2P technologies being used. μTorrent is one of the most popular BitTorrent apps around, largely because of its […]
I reviewed Subtitle Download four months ago. Several new versions of this excellent software to download subtitles to your computer have been released since then and I thought it would be nice […]
Nokia released a new version of their PC Suite about a month ago. PC Suite is the PC software for Nokia phone owners to manage the phones on the computer. The software […]
If you live and breath Flickr you might find the following tools to integrate Flickr into Microsoft Word 2007, Microsoft Outlook 2007 and Windows Live Writer useful. The tools (via Genbeta) are […]
Music is one of the hot topics on the Internet. The battle between filesharers, privacy advocates and representatives of the Music Industry is still waging. What most users do not realize that […]
Josh is a freelance blogger and trying to start his own over at extendably.com – check it out! Like most people, my first experience with blogs was on Blogger.com. Within about a […]
Each browser is limited cookies in two ways. The first is a per domain cookie limit that allows a single domain to only store x cookies before the oldest gets erased to […]
What do you do if all of your photos are currently hosted at Flickr but you want to have them in Picasa as well? What if you were notified that your image […]
If you want to extract the audio from a video file you got lots of options. You can load one of the classical video editing tools, use specific audio editing tools like […]
Are you bored of the system icons that Windows ships with? If you like to change the default Windows theme to a custom one you also might like to change the icons […]
It is not very healthy to work for hours starring on a computer monitor without taking breaks. Eye Defender was designed to prevent Computer Vision Syndrome; it can have all kinds of […]
Paragon Drive Backup Express is a free drive backup software for 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista. Well, almost free because a registration is required to receive […]
Experienced users know that Microsoft Office documents can contain hidden information that can be revealed after enabling functions to see them in Microsoft Office products. This can include hidden rows and data […]
Windows Explorer Replacement Explorer++ tries to become what Notepad++ already has become, a fast, efficient, feature rich alternative to Windows Explorer. The portable and lightweight software program introduces several new features and […]
I bought my shiny green limited edition Xbox when it came out, put a modchip inside and replaced the hard drive with a 120 Gigabyte drive. The first application that I put […]
After reading the original heading over at Download Squad I thought that the Anti-Malware Toolkit was a software to scan the system for installed security and cleanup tools and update them if […]
RIP - Remove It Permanently - is a Firefox add-on that adds options to the web browser to remove elements on websites permanently. Elements can be pretty much anything from headers, images, […]
Do you know how much computer memory (RAM) your PC's motherboard supports, and which types it supports? There are ways to look the information up, for example by taking a look at […]
Am I the only one who is getting enough of those third party Twitter Api services that all use (i)tter in their domain name? Despite it's pretty silly name Monitter, which apparently […]
Did you know that a Mozilla store exists where you can buy all kinds of Mozilla merchandise? That was a first for me. You can buy Firefox and Thunderbird on CD with […]
You find lots of applications on the Internet that allow to slipstream service packs, patches and updates into a Microsoft Windows installation CD or DVD. This has a serious advantage the next […]
Just a word of warning, this is very likely going to turn into a rant. (But not the rant you may have expected) If you follow tech blogs then you could hardly […]
If you are working with the same kind of documents on a regular basis in Open Office, you might find the Open Office Bookmarks Menu extension helpful. It adds the possibility to […]
