Windows Essentials now available
With all the name changing that is going on it is sometimes hard to keep an overview of what is going on.
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The Internet Archive adds over 1 million torrents to the site
The Internet Archive over at archive.
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Highlight the mouse cursor to locate it on the screen
If you have a large computer monitor, or maybe even multiple monitors, it sometimes may take a second or two to locate the mouse cursor on the screen.
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Microsoft opens the Office Store
Microsoft seems to have looked closely at Apple's revenue model when it decided to build stores into its core products Windows and Office.
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Sleepwalker: Windows shutdown just became more comfortable
Do you like to watch a movie or listen to music before you fall asleep at night? If you do, you have probably noticed that the PC is still on the next […
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Microsoft Net Framework Verification Tool update brings 4.5 support
When you are experiencing issues with applications that depend on Microsoft's Net Framework, you have a few options at hand to troubleshoot those issues.
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Add run as different user to the Windows 8 startpage
If you want to run a program as a different user in Windows 7, all you have to do is hold down the shift-key on the computer keyboard before you right-click the
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Burn videos to DVD with Freemake Video Converter
Would not it be great if the process of burning video files to DVD would be as easy as copying regular files on a data DVD? Freemake Video Converter makes that
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Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center to manage Microsoft hardware released
If you are the owner of a Microsoft keyboard or mouse you up until now had to rely on IntelliPoint and IntelliType Pro drivers to add full support for the devic
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What is a Torrent?
A torrent is a small file used in peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing that acts as an index, allowing users to download, upload, and share large files like software
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Add Search the Internet to the Windows Start Menu
One of the things that I like about the search in Windows 8 is the option to load websites automatically from the interface.
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Firefox: Add the favicon back to the urlbar
With Firefox 14 came a change to the browser's address bar that many Firefox users did not agree with.
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Download TED videos with TED Downloader 3.0
We have covered the TED Downloader back in 2011 for the first time that you could use to download all videos from TED talks.
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Shapeshifter is a versatile clipboard manager for Windows
We all know that the Windows Clipboard can only save one item at a time.
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Music Tagger MusicBrainz Picard 1.0 Review
MusicBrainz Picard is a cross-platform music tagger that is using an album-oriented approach when it comes to tagging files.
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PNG Gauntlet: compress png images without quality reduction
When you make available images on the Internet, be it embedded on a website, in documents, or by sending images as email attachments, you and the target audienc
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Fix old Net Framework programs not installing or running under Windows 8
Both client and server Windows 8 operating systems ship with the brand new Microsoft .
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Cloud System Booster Pro Review
Two months ago we reviewed the free version of Cloud System Booster and found it to be an easy to use program to optimize your Windows PC in a number of ways.
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Windows game cheats: enable debug mode in Minesweeper, Solitaire and FreeCell
Games are not installed by default under Windows 7 Professional, and up until now I felt no urge to install them on the computer using the add features dialog i
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10 music services for work
Do you listen to music while you are working on your computer? For me, it depends mostly on the tasks that I'm doing.
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Google replaces Gmail video chat with Google+ Hangouts
It is becoming apparent that Google is pushing its Google+ networking service with all of its might into the market.
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Create desktop shortcuts for Windows Metro apps
One of the things that you can't do in the Windows 8 Release Preview is create desktop shortcuts for Metro apps.
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Immersive Explorer, Metro-style app for the desktop
The Metro user interface that Windows 8 ships with is certainly controversial with the majority of users either hating or loving it.
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Webmasters: Verify your website's Web of Trust reputation rating
Ilev yesterday mentioned in a comment that Web of Trust was flagging the Loginhelper.
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Transform Windows 8 into Mac OS X
Don't like the way how Windows 8 is shaping out to look like when it is released? Prefer the look and feel of Apple's Mac OS X operating system? Then you may [&
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uTorrent Search Engine Setup: Add, Edit or Remove Search Providers
To set up search engines in uTorrent Classic, open Options > Preferences > Advanced > UI Extras and edit the Search Engines box.
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How to check your website's tags on OpenDNS
As a website owner you have to cope with a lot of situations.
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Want to try YouTube's Carousel Look? Then do this
It seems like Google is constantly trying out new designs and testing them on the live side by randomly selecting a percentage of the user base.
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eBay launches Windows 8 Store app
News just got in that the Windows 8 store hit 400 apps in the Release Preview of the operating system.
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Software Developers: please make change logs available during updates
When it comes to software updates, you usually either do not get any information about the changes in the update that is just installed on your computer, or onl
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Hideman is a free VPN service with mutliple server locations
A virtual private network (vpn) can be helpful in a number of ways.
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Find out who is copying your texts with Count Words for Firefox
One of the biggest issues that webmasters face on today's Internet are copy cats which are often referred to as scraper or scraper sites.
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Webroot System Analyzer: Analyze your PC in less than 2 minutes
I like to run PC auditing tools every now and then as they can provide me with insight that I may have missed or noticed to late otherwise.
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How to bypass the file delete confirmation dialog in Windows
One of the first things that I do after I log in to a Windows account for the first time is to change the way files are deleted in the operating system.
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Monitor your Internet Bandwidth with Cucusoft Net Guard
Monitoring the bandwidth usage of a computer system can be beneficial in several ways.
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Speed up Google Chrome, Chromium or SRWare Iron with IronCleaner
There is not a lot that you can do when Google Chrome starts to slow down after you have used the web browser for a certain period of time.
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Use Msconfig to log which drivers get loaded during system boot
Nothing really beats the excellent Autoruns when it comes to analyzing the files that get loaded during a system's boot process.
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Fix Google AdSense ad serving has been disabled to your site
Google Adsense is one monetization method on the Internet.
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Clean-up Windows Explorer menu items with CCleaner
The more applications you install, the more likely the chance that your Windows Explorer menu fills up with context menu items.
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Stayfocused: Create Pomodoro-based Work Tasks
Focusing on a work task can be quite difficulty on a computer system, with notifications and the joys of the Internet just a step away.
