WikiTaxi takes Wikipedia offline by processing Wikipedia backups and providing a browser like experience. It works by downloading the article backup of the selected language from Wikipedia and importing that backup into […]
If you want to check system settings in Windows, you either have to dig deep into the operating system, use widgets to display them in the sidebar, or run other applications that […]
Music Assistant is a great tool that can help musicians doing two things that they probably do on a daily basis. The first is helping them tune their instrument while the second […]
Some users willingly give up Megabytes of RAM to skin and beautify their system. One area that is often overlooked is the volume controller. The software 3RVX (via Shell Extension City) tries […]
I lately tried to uninstall the Microsoft .net Framework 2.0 from my system only to find out that I could not do it. The uninstallation program told me that other applications installed […]
Personal organisers are a dime a dozen but I’m yet to find one which full meets my requirements. For some time however I did use Essential PIM and found it a good […]
Disk Index provides a visual interface for the Dos dir command that can output files and folders of a system partition and drive. Dir, which stands for directory can be a useful […]
Business users who use their notebook to connect to the Internet and a network from different locations know about the problems, difficulties and configuration issues that can arise. It often happens at […]
GPU Caps Viewer is a utility for graphics card that specializes on Open GL information. It does provide a general overview of the video card. The usual information are displayed in that […]
Microsoft is trying to prove to the world that Windows Vista is not as bad as a large portion of the public and press is seeing it. The Mojave Experiment is just […]
System Partitioning is a little scary, especially if your as stupid as me and don’t back your files up before you start. I have been using Ubuntu installed through Wubi, a very […]
Sure there are prettier disk analyzers than Disksum. Those that display all kinds of fancy colored graphs to show you the folders that use the most space on your hard drive and […]
HTML websites can be easily tested and debugged locally because no additional software but a text editor and a web browser are needed to do just that. Things change when you turn […]
One way to improve a product is to invite critics (common folk, not the usual computer experts) to give them a sneak peak of it's successor and use their criticism to build […]
My system felt a bit sluggish after starting the installation of a new application and a quick check of the task manager revealed a process named mscorsvw.exe that was running on my […]
Comics that are posted daily as part of a newspaper and published online at the same time put some strain on users who want to view several of them. These comics are […]
Microsoft acquired the company Caligari back in February which was probably best known for their 3d modeling and animation software Truespace which came a long way since its initial release on the […]
Foto Sketcher provides access to some interesting picture filtering techniques that professionals who use Adobe Photoshop on a daily basis will (probably) laugh about. Untalented folks like me one the other hand […]
KatMouse is a simple software that can change the way Windows NT handles scrolling with the mouse wheel. It basically provides a way to customize the way the scroll wheel is utilized […]
Well I don’t think I’ve ever had so many responses as I have to these Posts on Windows Vista =) But obviously it’s a controversial subject. Now I realise that many of […]
300 Words into replying to some comments made by Rarst on my post yesterday about Microsoft I decided I may as well publish it like so as a new post… that’s what […]
Microsoft released a new version of Windows Search on Windows Update and as a manual download for all supported operating systems. The company made the update an recommended update for Windows XP […]
After its $500 million “Wow Starts Now†campaign completely bombed, Microsoft went awfully quiet and let the public, the tech community and Apple noisily tear Vista to pieces. Understandably of course, there […]
Windows Vista users may be surprised to know that they actually have two different versions of the places bar in Windows Explorer. The places bar provides access to several links on the […]
Time Snapper is a unique application that can be used to create an automatic screenshot journal. The software automatically creates screenshots of the user's desktop or the active application window and saves […]
I follow developments of both G.ho.st and Windows Live Mesh with interest and this week has seen new releases for both. What I find most interesting is that both developments have a […]
If you haven’t managed to get into the Live Mesh preview then I would recommend you trying it now: We are doubling the upper limit of our technology preview program. Our technology […]
Show me your desktop and I tell you who you are. If this line sounds vaguely familiar you may know where I'm heading with the initial question. A computer user belongs to […]
HDD Scan is a very sophisticated hard disks diagnosing and managing tool that provides a wealth of information and options to the user. It basically provides the user with information about the […]
Today's Giveaway of the Day, that is a commercial software that is given away for free for a day, is Aplus DVD Copy (homepage). It's a no thrills no frills DVD copying […]
The Places Bar in Windows appears on every save and open dialog in the operating system. It is displayed on the left side of the dialog where it lists five locations that […]
I have covered various applications before that download all related Windows Updates from Microsoft to a computer. Some that I mentioned are the Autopatcher Updater, Project Dakota and Offline Update. It's never […]
It looks much nicer and improves readability as well if a paper form is filled out by using a type writer or computer printer. The person who has to process the form […]
I was not very pleased with the guys who decided to publish the songs that they were listening to in public IRC channels back in the days when I was using IRC […]
I already covered a software that would calculate the fuel consumption of your car and now it's time to present a similar application for runners to keep track of their running progress. […]
I have been connecting to IRC on a daily basis about ten years ago but stopped doing so. IRC is the Internet Relay Chat, a huge network of servers, channels and users […]
I once had the pleasure to scan hundreds of papers manually which was a tedious job that took hours to complete. Back then I thought that a automatic solution would have been […]
Everyone I know who owns a car is cursing about the increasing fuel costs. I'm in the lucky position that I do not own a car and that I do not have […]
You might probably like the software Quick Res for Windows XP if you regularly have to change the resolution of the operating system. If you change the resolution manually you have to […]
Lets talk about inefficiency. Microsoft just released an update that adds five words to the English dictionary file that has an impressive size of 56 Megabytes. The five words that are added […]
