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Nitro PDF Reader 2.3 Improves Memory Usage

March 14, 2012

Windows users have plenty of options when it comes to pdf readers.

Audio Recorder and Editor Audacity 2.0 Released

March 14, 2012

Audacity is my go-to program when I need to edit audio on my system.

Schedule Websites To Open Automatically In Firefox

March 14, 2012

With a default installation of Firefox, there are two options to open websites automatically in the browser.

Microsoft Security Bulletins For March 2012 Released

March 13, 2012

Microsoft has made available the security patches for March 2012.

Do You Love the Windows 8 Consumer Preview or Hate it?

March 13, 2012

Whatever Microsoft may be saying about how great the Windows 8 Consumer Preview is, there can be little doubt that it's provoking some very strong reactions.

Monitor Bluetooth Connections On Windows

March 13, 2012

BluetothLogView is a new program by one of our favorite developers Nir Sofer.

Google Developing A Chrome Metro Version For Windows 8

March 13, 2012

The two user interfaces that Windows 8 ships with make it more time and development intensive for developers to provide a working software version for both inte

Remove Corrupt Windows Updates With Windows Update Regenerator

March 13, 2012

Updates for the Windows operating system can be installed in a number of ways.

Google To Enable HTTPS For International Search Users In The Coming Weeks

March 13, 2012

HTTPS has been the default protocol for the past months for users connecting to the google.

[Appeal] Send me Your Windows 8 Troubleshooting Issues and Problems

March 13, 2012

As the author of the Microsoft Press book, Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out you might expect with a new version of Windows now upon us I'd be thinking about

Twitter Acquires Posterous, What Happens Next?

March 13, 2012

You may have already heard the news that the social messaging service Twitter has acquired another web service.

CloudFogger, Secure File Storage In The Cloud

March 12, 2012

Services like Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive or Spideroak make life more comfortable for users who work on different devices regularly.

Download More Than 35 Gigabyte Of Free SXSW Festival Music

March 12, 2012

SXSW, or South By Southwest is a large annual festival in Austin, Texas, that is bringing creative people and an ever-growing audience together.

A News Ticker For Your Desktop

March 12, 2012

RSS feeds are a great way of keeping up with your favorite blogs and sites that support the technology, as they offer several benefits over other means of monit

Internet Radio Recorder StreamWriter 4.0 Released

March 12, 2012

StreamWriter is without doubt one of the most comfortable Internet radio recorders for the Windows operating system.

Windows 8 Is Not Intuitive To Use, At Least For Now

March 12, 2012

Have you ever watched someone with little computing experience use a computer? If you ever worked tech support or are the go-to guy when tech issues come up, yo

Private Browsing Without Closing The Active Firefox Session

March 11, 2012

One of the things that has always annoyed me in regards to Firefox's private browsing mode was the fact that the browser did close the active session before swi

FixBee, Disk Cleanup and Optimization Software

March 11, 2012

System maintenance tools have a variety of purposes, from freeing up disk space to defragmenting the hard drive or removing invalid file references from the sys

Game Developer Abandons Android App Citing Unsustainability

March 11, 2012

The company behind the popular Battleheart game for Google's Android operating system are ceasing support for the platform citing that the platform isÂ unsust

Netkups, File Hoster With Torrent Distribution

March 11, 2012

One of the things that is keeping users from distributing their files via Bittorrent, is that they have to be online for the initial seeding, and times when the

What do you like most about Windows XP?

March 10, 2012

Windows XP, released in 2001 is for many people "as comfortable as an old shoe", but why is this and why do people hold this insecure and buggy operating system

Firefox 11 Stable Released

March 10, 2012

Firefox users who cannot wait to update the stable channel of the web browser from version 10 to 11, can download the new version from the official Mozilla ftp

Mozilla Begins Work on Firefox Metro Version

March 10, 2012

If you have followed the development progress of Microsoft's upcoming operating system Windows 8 closely, you may know that it ships with two different versions

TabMemFree, Unload Websites In Chrome To Free Up Resources

March 10, 2012

Websites that you have opened in tabs in your favorite browser use system resources as long as they are open.

Hubris [Game Saturday]

March 10, 2012

Games that take you on a journey seem to have become popular in recent days.

Thunderbird Gets Instant Messaging Capabilities

March 9, 2012

When you look at the most recent releases of the Thunderbird email client, you'd be hard pressed to find major new features that the developers have added to th

Microsoft Reduces Touchscreen Lag To 1ms

March 9, 2012

One of the issues with most touch-enabled devices on the market today is that they have a visible input lag when you work with them.

Google Play My Music Hotkeys for Firefox

March 9, 2012

Google Music has been moved to the new Google Play subdomain along with the Android Market, part of Google Books and Google Movies.

Keyboard Training, A Playful Typing Tutor

March 9, 2012

Improving your typing speed and accuracy can really speed up your day to day computer activities.

Using Bitlocker in Windows (Best Practice Guide)

March 9, 2012

If you use a laptop for work, or it you carry important or sensitive data with you then it should be encrypted.

DuckDuckGo Traffic Still Climbing Like Crazy

March 9, 2012

I have been using the DuckDuckGo search engine for some time now and have to say that I'm more than happy with the results it provides.

SceneChat Review

March 9, 2012

Using SceneChat on your website will help you stay more engaged with your visitors through the content you post.

Download BBC Radio Programs With Radio Downloader

March 9, 2012

If you cannot listen to the various BBC Radio channels directly, you may consider downloading your favorite shows to your computer to listen to them at a later