OnScreen Display For Mute Status
Are you someone who likes to listen to music on his computer but gets regularly interrupted by phone calls, chats or other things? Do you mute the music for tha
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ePassports Make Terrorist Dreams Come True
Did you notice that many governments who are very keen of introducing new electronic means of identification have virtually no idea of what they are actually in
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Password Protect Applications
If you do not want that your kids are playing the latest ID software blockbuster, that someone snoops around in your email client or that someone destroys your
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404 Error Pages Best Of
Clicking on a web link or entering an url manually can have two results in the web browser.
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Dressing your Mac up for Christmas
Whilst I realise this website has a Linux and Windows-focus, I am (for better or for worse) a OS X user.
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Cool Nerdy Screensavers
I almost decided to create a top x list of the nerdiest screensavers on the planet but decided against it.
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Run Screensaver As Desktop Background
Animated desktop backgrounds are a hot topic since Microsoft made them popular with the release of Dreamscene for Windows Vista Ultimate.
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Use Gmail As Email Backup Space
Gmail is currently providing each Gmail user with Gigabytes of free storage space for their mails and attachments.
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Fix Thunderbird Junk Filter Not Working Anymore
Here is a fix for a problem that I encountered recently on a Windows XP test system running the latest version of the email client Mozilla Thunderbird.
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Ghacks Christmas Giveaway: Do-Organizer And TexNotes Pro
We are in full swing on the fifth day of the Ghacks Christmas Giveaway.
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Device Driver Backup
Driver Backup 2 is a portable open source software that can be used to backup and restore the drivers of a Windows computer system.
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Run Vista's Windows System Assessment Tool Under Windows XP
The Windows System Assessment Tool is being used in Windows Vista to compute the Windows Experience Index of the computer system which gives you a basic score i
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Ghacks Christmas Giveaway: Display Fusion Pro
Fourth day of the Ghacks Christmas Giveaway.
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Application Monitor
Making sure that an application is running 24/7 on a computer system is not as easy as it sounds especially if that application does not have a restart option w
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Getting at good quality free images
As a blogger and general designer person, I often have the need for some cool pics.
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Computer Virus Protection Quttera
Quttera is not your usual computer virus protection program.
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Royalty Free Clip Art Gallery
There are two types of Internet users out there.
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Windows Explorer Context Menu Editor
File Menu Tools is a free Windows Explorer context menu editor that you may use to add or remove items from the right-click menu of Explorer.
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Windows Media Player CD-Text
CD-Text is used to store additional information on an audio CD.
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Smart Close
If you need the full processing power of your computer for an application or are installing an application that requires you to close all other open programs an
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Web of Trust: collaborative online security
Most systems which warn of unsafe websites, like OpenDNS and Google, work in mysterious, non-transparent ways and websites are often deemed as unsafe for reason
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Nokia N97 news
My current cell phone contract runs out in six months and I'm currently looking for options.
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Download Free Apps for Your Phone at Phoload
For mobile phone owners, finding good applications to use can be tiresome.
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Copy Command Line Outputs Directly To The Clipboard
If you regularly save command line output into text files to process the output further or for record keeping, you might like a solution that copies the output
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Microsoft .net Framework Cleanup Tool
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Paypal anti-laundering safety regulations
I have been an active Paypal user for a while now, and I was surprised when Paypal sent me a letter asking me to verify that indeed I am not laundering money.
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Internet Explorer Sessions
Working on multiple computers, or on several days on a single computer, makes the use of sessions useful.
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Open Random Website In Firefox
Are you feeling bored right now? Don't know what to do? If you want to spend time on the Internet but don't know where, you might let fate decide instead.
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File Management Software Belvedere
Belvedere is at its heart a Windows port of the popular Mac OSX file management software Hazel.
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Use Dreamscene On Windows XP
Dreamscene is a technology introduced by Microsoft in Windows Vista Ultimate that made it possible to display videos and other animations as the desktop backgro
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Split CSV Files
CSV (Comma Separated Values) files are used to store tabular data in a straightforward format that is readable by any plain text editor.
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Speed Up iTunes Downloads With Autobahn
Autobahn - a German word for motorway - is a software application for Windows and Mac OSX that can speed up downloads and streams of several popular services in
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Network Traffic Balancer
Maximizing the download rate of an Internet connection might be a good way to download a file the fastest way but it can put a strain on all other network and I
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Completely Uninstall Microsoft Messenger Variants
Microsoft Messenger variants, such as MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger or Windows Messenger, sometimes cause difficulties during uninstallation throwing er
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Change The Default Web Browser In The System Tray
Windows does seem to have the habit of changing the default browser back to Internet Explorer from time to time.
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Microsoft Outlook SMS Add-in
The Microsoft Outlook SMS Add-in adds SMS sending functionality to Microsoft Outlook 2003 and Microsoft Outlook 2007.
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Sort Downloads In Firefox
Sorting downloads can be a very good way to control where files will be stored on a computer system.
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Filtering News By Keyword
Having subscriptions to hundreds of RSS news feeds can sometimes mean news overkill.
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ping.fm: Update all your social networks at once
Sites like Twitter have scores of competitors and it is possible that for someone to effectively socially network, they will have to use sites other than their
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AnyToISO: ISO Converter
AnyToISO is a versatile utility for Windows and macOS that converts various disk image formats (like DMG, RAR, 7Z, PKG, BIN, NRG) into standard ISO images.
