Find out if your PC supports SATA Mode 3.0 6Gb/s
Finding out which SATA modes your computer's motherboard supports before purchasing a new drive can be beneficial in a number of ways.
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Use Facebook Chat without opening Facebook.com
You may sometimes have difficulties connecting to Facebook.
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Repair corrupt MKV video files with Meteorite
Have you ever downloaded a video from the Internet, transferred it over a network, or copied it from another device only to find out that it would not play at a
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Create Android ringtones with Ringdroid
While you can select any music file on your Android device as a ringtone, you are limited to ringtones that start from the beginning of the file.
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What would you like to see in Windows 9 / Blue?
Rumors have it that Microsoft is already working on the next version of Windows, and while it is not clear if it will be called Windows 9,Windows Blue or someth
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Remap your mouse buttons on Windows
X-Mouse Button Control is a free portable software for Windows that you may use to remap any mouse button of the computer mouse.
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What the ATI Catalyst Custom Installation options mean
I published a guide about the NVIDIA driver installation process yesterday which looked at all the optional modules that get installed with the express installa
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If you are using WordPress then watch out for W3 Total Cache
If you have a blog or write for one (both of which I do) then you have no doubt looked for plugins to improve your traffic and user experience.
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How to update the firmware of your Crucial M4 SSD
Updating a drive's firmware can have beneficial effects that may include decreased power consumption, increased performance or faster response times.
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How to change the boot drive in Windows
I have two Solid State Drives and one platter-based drive connected to my PC.
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Download programs directly with DDownloads
It can sometimes be difficult to find the developer page of a program.
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HDDScan: HDD and SSD Test Diagnostics Software
HDDScan is a free, portable Windows software for testing internal/external HDDs and SSDs for bad sectors, SMART attributes, and temperature issues.
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ChrisTV Online is one more app for cord-cutters
These days everyone seems to be talking about "cutting the cord", but while we all want to do it, it is more difficult than you think.
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How to copy DVD movies to the Kindle Fire
My mother's present this Christmas was a Kindle Fire HD which she really wanted to get her hands on as she is quite often on tour with my father and wants to [&
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Make sure you only install Nvidia drivers you need
If your computer is powered by a Nvidia graphics card you have probably also installed the driver package that Nvidia makes available for various operating syst
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Convert HTML files to Plain Text properly
There are a couple of reasons why you'd want to convert local or online HTML files to the plain text format (.
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Clever Connectivity for Android helps you save power
Sometimes when you download files or synchronize data on your Android phone you may notice that the screen is being turned off because you are not actively usin
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Disable Google Search's page preview feature
Google for some time now displays page preview options on Google Search that users of the search engine can make use of to look at a sample screenshot of web pa
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GPS could soon to be more power efficient thanks to Microsoft
Do you have the GPS feature of your phone activated at all times or only when you need it? Whenever I activate GPS it seems to use a lot of battery, which [&hel
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Dropbox for Android: auto-upgrade to experimental builds
The makers of Dropbox, the popular file hosting and synchronization service, make available experimental builds for desktop systems and mobile devices regularly
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Pixlr-o-matic: Android Instragram alternative
Instagram's recent policy change and retraction after negative feedback exploded on the Internet may have damaged the company's reputation at least for a short
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VLC Media Player for Windows 8 is a go
If you are using Windows 8 on a desktop PC or laptop, or not at all, then you may not be that excited to hear that the VLC Media Player campaign on […]
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How to upload photos like a Pro to Facebook
So you have that great set of photos from your last vacation, from Christmas dinner, your son's graduation or a wedding and want to upload them to Facebook to s
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How to change default apps in Windows 11 and Windows 10
To change default apps in Windows 11 or Windows 10, open Settings, select Apps, then Default apps.
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Youtube Now Playing notifications on the desktop
Are you someone who likes to listen to YouTube music playlists in the background while you are working on your computer? Playlists are ideal for that as you can
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WordPress: Plugin Organizer gives you full plugin loading control
The WordPress plugin system is one of the features that is making the blogging platform great.
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Mozilla: ok, you can have your 64-bit Firefox versions back
64-bit builds of Firefox were released by Mozilla in conjunction with 32-bit builds for nearly two years for the Windows platform.
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Flickr's holiday gift - 3 months of unlimited storage
Flickr, the popular photo-sharing app owned by search giant Yahoo, has both free and paid versions, but the service has a special gift for the holiday season.
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IE beats Firefox, Chrome in Microsoft's Penguin Mark
Microsoft has released a new benchmark to demonstrate the power of Internet Explorer 10.
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Facebook puts privacy right in front of users
The problem with making changes on a popular site like Facebook is that there will always be a part of the user base that does not agree with the changes and di
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Chrome: No more silent extension installations
One of the things that I really do not like in Firefox is that Mozilla still did not find a way to block the automatic installation of extensions in the browser.
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Sort your music collection with Tags 2 Folders
If you have a large collection of unsorted music on your computer's hard drive you may be interested in ordering that mess for better manageability and control
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SlimImage: Windows 8 backup software
Some files and settings of the Windows 8 operating system get automatically backed up to SkyDrive if you are signing in with a Microsoft Account.
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Microsoft retires Expression
Microsoft Expression was a collection of tools that enabled you to design interactive web applications.
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Append the next page automatically on the Internet
Update: Auto Pager has been removed by its author from the Chrome Web Store.
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Clean up the Windows 8 All Apps listing
If you have ever opened the All Apps listing on a Windows 8 system, provided that you found it in first place, you have probably asked yourself why you find tha
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FastPictureViewer Professional 1.9 review
FastPictureViewer Professional is a commercial image viewer and editor for Windows designed specifically for photographers and large image collections.
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Dropbox continues shopping tour, acquires Snapjoy
The popular file hosting and synchronizing service Dropbox is setting the course for an expansion of their service.
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Microsoft Outlook 2013 deprecated feature list
Before you switch to Microsoft Outlook 2013, the company's latest version of its popular messaging client that can do a lot more than just sending and retrievin
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Change how long Windows 8 notifications are displayed
Windows 8 ships with a new notification engine that display notifications on screen when events happen.
