You might know that I'm not a huge fan of Instant Messengers and their online pendants like Twitter. I check them out frequently but never found a reason to use them extensively […]
Well I finally got a notification that 360 degree desktop was ready, something I’ve been eagerly awaiting for for a number of months now. I saw a brief preview of it in […]
The signal strength of a wireless connection is one of the most important factors that has to be considered. If the signal strength is to low it can happen that the connection […]
If you want to create a System Restore point in Windows you need to navigate deep into the Windows Control Panel to do that. That's not comfortable if you want to quickly […]
If you ever lost a partition on a hard drive you know how hard it can be to recover the data that was stored on that partition. Possible reasons can be system […]
Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor is a gadget for Windows Vista and a widget that is requiring the Yahoo Widget Framework for Windows XP and Apple Macintosh OS X. It's an application for wireless […]
Creating multiple folders in Windows at once is not really enjoyable because Windows itself does not provide a shortcut key or way to create folders quickly. New folders can be created with […]
USB Image Tool is a lightweight portable software that can create backups of USB devices. It detects pretty much every USB device that I'm connecting to an USB port including my Apple […]
Windows Media Center really is quite a decent application to use for media management and Microsoft doesn’t get enough credit for the steps it’s taken to establish the PC as the home […]
It took me a little while to adapt, but I soon grew to find the Vista start menu far more useful and productive then XP's ever was. Granted I've read the comments […]
Every new application that enters the "temporary data cleaner" category has to stand its ground against established programs like CCleaner which seems to be the application of choice for most cleaning enthusiasts […]
You might have already ready about Windows Alternate Data Streams (also known as System Forks on other operating systems) which are supported by most Windows operating systems that use NTFS (New Technology […]
Each user account in Windows is connected to a user profile that defines several important parameters like the types of applications that are available for that user, information about files and shortcuts […]
There are to many image resizers in this world. I think that's a statement that I would immediately sign. If you develop a new image resizer you will have to offer additional […]
The so called Places Bar is a sidebar on the right side of Open and Save dialogs in Windows and Office that provides the user with a way to access specific folders […]
Forums used to be huge back in the day. They where a vital source of knowledge for anyone getting into any field, and particularly areas like SEO and programming. They allowed people […]
One way to ensure that files do not get modified is to monitor certain directories for changes and write those changes to a log. It would then be easy to see if […]
Nwiz.exe, commonly referred to nView Wizard, is a component that gets installed when Nvidia video card drivers are installed on a system. It is automatically started with Windows which can be checked […]
You might have heard of URLs before when someone referred to an Internet address as an URL. URL Protocols are for example http, mailto or ftp and they have to be registered […]
Clone Spy is a free portable application that can detect file duplicates in a number of ways and react automatically or after user input on the discovery of such files. Duplicates are […]
Whenever I visit Chinese websites I stumble upon strange characters that do not resemble Chinese at all. When I visit the Chinese Google homepage for instance I see lots of blocks of […]
For those people who use Windows Media Center, it can be a pain to have to navigate around the program using the mouse, especially if you’re watching a movie and you need […]
New Explorer folders are always opened in a new window on my system because I think it's a comfortable way to work with folders and windows. I never liked the default way […]
The Windows System Tray clock does not provide many ways to customize its appearance and format. The only two options that are available are to display the clock - or not - […]
The Auslogics Disk Defrag software is a popular hard disk defragmentation tool and many users who like it will probably also find the company's Registry defragmentation tool useful. The Windows Registry is […]
Resolution Changer is a neat software for Windows that can change the screen resolution temporarily or permanently. The author created the application at first for his children who were playing around with […]
Skype just recently the first beta of their new Skype 4.0 client that is currently only available for Windows. The focus of this release is to receive user feedback to work further […]
Since this is a subject we have touched on a couple of times recently I decided to share a a few useful registry tweaks. These apply to Windows Vista. 1) Stop UAC […]
It may be a little late to be discussing leaks of Windows Longhorn seeing as the project was reset over 4 years ago and we are now looking at Windows 7 on […]
Information that is added on the Internet hardly ever go away which is highly problematic if the information is not correct. It becomes even more disturbing in sectors where everyone can have […]
When I first got Windows Vista about 7 or so months ago it did seem to be pretty slow compared to Windows XP. After checking out all the online tech websites I […]
Gabtastic provides desktop access to the chat applications Facebook Chat and Google Talk. Those two are normally only accessible on the Facebook and Google Mail websites which require a permanently opened browser […]
Notepad++ has been my Notepad replacement for the last years and I have never looked back since I installed it on my first computer. It combines the speed and low resource usage […]
NMIndexingService.exe is a service that is part of the Nero Burning Rom suite, or more precisely Nero Scout which comes bundled with Nero 7 and Nero 8. If you have one of […]
A problem that many users will face when they buy a new computer is that they have to find a way to migrate the data from the old computer to the new […]
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 […]
This is a incredibly handy little tip that I found over at APC Magazine. When you’ve been working on your computer for a day or two and it’s starting to slow down […]
Clean After Me is a new software by the well respected NirSoft developers. The application is as usual portable and can be executed right from its location. The main purpose of the […]
If you are looking for a software that checks hard disks for read errors and provides a visual representation of the process you might want to take a look at Ariolic Disk […]
Reble is a software for Windows that is providing a group of friends access to their combined music collection over the Internet. Think of a buddy system from an Instant Messenger with […]
