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The Windows command line tool that can be accessed by typing cmd.
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Wipe Disk and Wipe Files
Choice is good, most of the time at least but to much choice can also lead to confusion.
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Zip Repair
The Zip format is probably still the most used and known format to compress files.
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Changing the Default Windows Search
Microsoft did integrate search right across the operating system in Windows Vista but restricted access to Windows Search technologies only.
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All you need to know about the Firefox 3 Location Bar
The location bar (or address bar, awesome bar, smart bar) has one main function and that is to provide the user with a sophisticated tool to load websites.
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Firefox: what to do when add-ons don't work
Update: While the tip below refers to Firefox 2 and 3, at least some of it applies to newer versions of the Firefox web browser as well which means that it can
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20 More Online Desktops
I wrote wrote a post last week about online desktops and gave what was in my opinion, the best three of the bunch.
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Test the Speed of your USB Flash Drives
The speed difference of USB Flash Drives that support the USB 2.
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Open Office Extensions
Open Office recently pushed out version 3.
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Reveal or Reset the Bios Passwords
Password protecting the Bios is considered a weak protection, something that professionals can find out or reset in no time.
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Thunderbird URL Link
URL Link is a very sophisticated add-on for the email client Mozilla Thunderbird that provides advanced link manipulation techniques.
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Aviary: Suite of web based creative tools
In a post last week I talked about the growth of cloud computing and web based applications in relation to online desktops.
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Microsoft SearchTogether
Collaboration is one of the big buzz words these days on the Internet.
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Visual Tooltip
I'm not a huge fan of those visual tooltip applications no matter if they are integrated in the operating system or in other applications like Opera.
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Wireless Migrator
Tamir contacted me today per email describing how he was looking for an easy way to backup and restore the wireless network profiles.
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British Telecom Phorm report leaked
An internal British Telecom document was released two days ago on the Wikileak website that provides the results of British Telecom's validation of Phorm, also
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HD Clone
Replacing an older hard drive with less space with a new one that offers hundreds of additional Gigabytes can be a confusing task.
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Add functionality to Gmail with Gmail Labs
Google has added a very interesting feature to Gmail called Labs which is accessible in the account options.
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CD Recovery Toolbox
File recovery from old media disks like CD or DVD might become a huge market in the near future.
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Display Google Search Results while you type in Firefox
Awesome Search, which I reviewed two days ago, is probably the best application when it comes to Firefox extensions that display Google search results while you
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Set Global Shortcuts in Windows
You might remember that I was looking for a program to set global shortcuts to reserved keys like F1-F12.
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Firefox Passive Recon
Security professionals sometimes need to find out as much about a domain as they can without alerting the owner that someone is requesting all those information.
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Fix Bandwidth Exceeded in Hotspot Shield
Hotspot Shield is probably the only working free VPN solution that enables users from all over the world to access websites that provide their contents only to
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Plurk: micro-blogging site
Plurk is a free Taiwan-based social networking and microblogging service founded in 2008, known for its unique horizontal, chronological timeline rather than th
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Evidence Collector review
Update: Evidence Collector has been discontinued.
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Youtube Annotations
Developers of the video streaming site YouTube have finally added a new feature to the website: it's called YouTube Annotations and you can see it here in actio
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Send Faxes for Free
Sometimes, you may urgently need to send a fax across to someone but you do not have access to a fax machine.
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Analyse system crashes
Windows is creating a minidump whenever it's crashing.
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Started something too big
Windows 7 will be the Microsoft’s 7th incarnation of their OS kernel, hence the name (yep, pretty clever).
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Microsoft Pro Photo Shoot
Microsoft is making available a free add-on for Microsoft Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Outlook 2003 running on Windows XP or Windows Vista called Microsoft Pro Ph
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Disable Automatic Virus Scanning in Firefox
Firefox 3 is making use of the installed virus scanner on Windows to scan downloads automatically after they have been fully downloaded to the system.
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Computers' energy costs
Ever wondered how energy friendly the Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii were ? Or how a LCD monitor would fare against a good old CRT monitor ? Australia
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Add Search to the Awesome Bar in Firefox 3
I'm getting some very good tips from readers of my blog lately, it's really appreciated.
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Organize your PC Breaks with Off 4 Fit
I reviewed Workrave a while ago which displays notifications to PC users to take breaks regularly to prevent Repetitive Strain injuries.
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Windows Live Writer Preview
The newest version of Windows Live Writer has been released as a technical preview, primarily to showcase changes to the SDK.
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Veoh blocks all but 33 countries
After the demise of Stage 6 and the disappearance of its unofficial successor Vreel it became apparent that it is difficulty to run a profitable video streaming
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US to get metered bandwidth
Innovation usually gets blocked or slowed down by monopolies.
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Minimal Music Sharing
With conventional music distribution methods becoming less and less effective with every year and the associated corporations increasingly desperate a growing g
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Recover Lost Outlook Passwords
Microsoft Outlook .
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Have you joined the Flock yet?
Most of you are probably aware of Flock, the social networking browser.
