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Home Video Surveillance System Utilizing Webcams

Ugolog is a free and commercial online service that turns any webcam installed in your home into a basic home video surveillance system. Home video surveillance systems can cost thousands of Dollars. […]

SSD Security: Erase Solid State Drives Data

While it is still not common sense to securely erase data on hard drives (read: Securely Erase Files) before computers or hard drives are sold, or given away. the matter becomes even […]

Add an application to GNOME's Autostart

When you log into GNOME are there applications that you wish would start automatically? Are you one of those that fire up your web browser or your email client as your desktop […]

Microsoft Download Portals Overview

Microsoft does not only maintain a public download repository on the Internet but several sites that provide downloads for various company products and services. Many of these download sites offer downloads for […]

Skype Lite

So called lite applications remove certain components from -- usually resource heavy - applications to reduce download time, storage requirements or features so that they are not installed with the application on […]

Internet Explorer 8 Ad Blocking

Ad Blocking in the Internet Explorer 8 web browser is not as easy to achieve as it is in other web browsers like Opera or Firefox with add-ons installed. Many Internet Explorer […]

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WordPress Blogs: Create Custom Tag Pages

A WordPress blog post is made up of a handful of elements like the title and content, but also tags, categories and comments. Tag pages usually display excerpts of all posts that […]

Backup your Linux, Mac, or Windows machines with fwbackups

Are you looking for a simple backup solution that will work cross platform, with a user-friendly interface, that's open source, and free? If so, you've found it. The fwbackups backup solution is […]

OCZ Z-Drive

One of the latest hardware trends seems to be to use multiple Solid State Drives (SSDs) in Raid setups. We already mentioned the 24 monster SSD Raid video that was uploaded to […]

Laptop Intel GMA Gaming Accelerator

GMA Booster is a free program for Microsoft Windows devices to accelerate certain Intel chipsets to improve their gaming performance. Laptops with integrated graphic accelerators like Intel's GMA (Graphics Media Accelerator) are […]

How To Watch Champions League Online

The UEFA Champions League is one of the world's major sport events that attracts fans from all over the world. The quarter finals are beginning this week with some exciting match lineups. […]

8 Sleeper Internet Explorer 8 Add-ons

Internet Explorer add-ons have been introduced by Microsoft in the previous editions of Internet Explorer. Despite the introduction, they never managed to come close to the popularity and inventiveness of add-ons produced […]

Spice Up Google Search With Google Fx

Google Fx is a userscript that you may install in browser's supporting userscripts to modify the appearance and functionality of Google Search. Google Search has always been displayed with a rather minimalistic […]

Search and download from Flickr using zFlick

The ever so popular Adobe Air platform has given us a lot of useful apps, but few as tastefully done and as handy as this one. zFlick is an application which enables […]

Keep logged in users informed with motd

If you have users that log into a server, or a desktop (for whatever reason) you might want to take advantage of the Linux Message Of The Day file. This file resides […]

Reduce Sound Volume Over Time With Sweet Dreams

Sweet Dreams has been designed to reduce the volume of sound playing on Windows operating systems over time to improve sleep. If you are a user who likes to listen to music […]

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Do you use Twitter?

Twitter is a service which really baffles me. It is an absolute killer idea, but I am still astounded by the volume of traffic it has. I find it very useful for […]

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Sopcast Internet TV Filter For Windows Media Player

Sopcast Filter was a free tool for the media streaming and broadcasting application Sopcast which enabled streams in the Windows Media Player. Sopcast is a free Internet TV client that can be […]

Test Possible Conficker Infection In Your Web Browser

Conficker Eye Chart is a free page on the Internet that helps you determine whether a PC is infected with a variant of the Conficker worm. While the Conficker worm did not […]

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Internet Explorer Bumpers

Browser bumpers is a lightweight portable application for the Windows operating system that interacts with both the Internet Explorer web browser and Windows taskbar. It is based on Fitt's Law which basically […]

Computer Monitor Lighting Software F.Lux

F.Lux is a cross-platform computer program for Windows, Mac Linux and Android, that adjusts the color warmth of the display based on the time of time. If you ever had to get […]

Load your advertisements after your content

I didn't have much use for loading ads after my content, since on most of my sites and those I worked on, they were near the end of the code anyway, but […]

Billy a simple but awesome music player

Billy a very lightweight music player for Microsoft Windows devices that ships with a couple of extra features besides playback functionality. We had a look at how you use your media player […]

Enable SATA Hot Swap

Hot Swap is a free software program for Microsoft Windows that enables hot swapping functionality for external SATA hard drives. Hot swap, or hot swapping, describes the process of connecting or removing […]

Website Value Calculator Stimator

If you are in the business of selling and buying websites and domain names, or a webmaster interested in finding out the value of web projects you are left with a few […]

Old School Linux Solutions: finger

Back when I first started using Linux nearly all Linux systems were truly multi-user systems. Because of this the finger command was an important tool to keep handy. What finger does is […]

Computer Sound Card Analysis

Sound Card Analysis is a portable program for the Windows operating system that has been compiled from an AHK script by a Donation Coder Member. The tool can be used to analyse […]

Software Programming Helper: File Substring Replacement Utility

String-O-Matic, formerly known as File Substring Replacement Utility, is a shareware to run string replacement jobs in batch mode. Software programmers will eventually run into situations where they have to replace strings […]

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Create an automated XP install with nlite

In today's world of internet connections and everything readily available at the push of a button, do we really need 1Gb of printer drivers? Ok, that goes for Vista, not XP, but […]

Get To Know Linux: The /etc/init.d Directory

If you use Linux you most likely have heard of the init.d directory. But what exactly does this directory do? It ultimately does one thing but it does that one thing for […]

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Install iTunes Without Quicktime And Bonjour

Apple's iTunes software will only install and run if additional Apple products are installed on the computer system as well. These programs include Apple Quicktime Bonjour, Apple Software Update, Apple Mobile Device […]

80 Plus Power Supply Units

Saving energy is already a critical task in many parts of the world, and started to become a issue even in countries that did not have this on a high priority. Computer […]

Xenocode Web Browser Sandbox

Want to see what other web browsers have to offer but have no interest in installing any of them on your computer system? You could hunt down the portable versions of those […]

CD Data Recovery Tools Overview

Experienced PC users who have been working with computers for ten years or more will eventually run into partially unreadable CDs or DVDs that they have created in the beginning days of […]

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Play with and understand WiFi Positioning System

A few months ago, Mozilla generated lots of buzz through its Geode extension, which locates users through the WiFi access point they were using. Other popular tools have similar features, such as […]

Windows Vista ClearType Fonts In Firefox Web Browser

If you like the Cleartype fonts that Microsoft shipped with Windows Vista, you may be inclined to use them not only in the operating system itself, but also in the web browser. […]

Simple GNOME Note Taking with Tomboy

Tomboy is one of those applications that, once you start using, will quickly become one of the tools you are dependent upon. It allows you to keep your notes both organized and […]

Direct Thumbnail To Full Size Photo Link On Flickr

You need to click several times on the photo hosting website Flickr if you want to open a full sized photo from a page that displays the thumbnail image of it only. […]

How to enable USB Flash Drive Write Protection in Windows

System administrators may want to limit the use of external USB flash drives by making them read only. This can actually be useful in several situations like preventing users from copying local […]

Internet Explorer Proxy Switcher

Quick Proxy Changer is a free program for Windows that you may use to change the proxy settings of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser. Users of the Internet Explorer web browser do […]