Updatestar: check if Software Updates are available
Updatestar seems to be the most comprehensive software to scan your system for installed applications and check whether updates for those found are available.
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Tweak Vista to suppress UAC popups
UAC is the Windows Vista User Account Control.
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Start Multiple Applications from the Start Menu
Clicking on Start, All Programs, the folder of the software that you want to start and finally the software is the normal way to start applications using the Wi
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Compare Registry Snapshots with Regshot
Taking Windows Registry snapshots can be a way to analyze changes that have been made to the system during a set period of time.
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Are you selling links? Watch your Pagerank!
What has been a rumor for some months seems to have become reality in the last weeks.
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Check if your website or feed is blocked in China
Some countries on earth are trying their best to keep their citizens from accessing the Internet freely out of fear that ideas of freedom and liberty would spre
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One Hotkey Software to rule them all
Hotkeys can really speed up the daily working routine in Windows.
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Quickly Hide Windows
Just a quick login into Gmail at work to see if I received any new mails.
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Google Earth Flight Simulator
I never played around with Google Earth for long and did not follow the news that closely.
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Firefox: Keep tabs permanently open
We all have some sites that we visit regularly throughout the day.
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Customize the Open and Save Window
The open and save dialogs in Windows have the nasty habit of not remembering any of the changes that you made while using them.
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Quickly Access your Windows with Win Flip
Windows Vista has that feature build in that lets you flip through all the open Windows by pressing Alt + Tab.
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Blank out part of the screen
It is sometimes important to concentrate on a task at hand and blend out everything that is not related to it.
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Validation removed from Internet Explorer 7
Microsoft must be desperate.
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Edit the Send To Menu
I never use the Send To menu in Windows.
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Weekend Fun H2O
Weekend Fun time again.
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Wiimote 3D Widget Desktop
I knew we were going to see more PC and Wiimote mashups this year.
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Create a self-expiring homepage
Self-expiring, disposable or temporary emails have been around for some time and are quite useful for quickly joining a website that forces its users to registe
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Top 14 Firefox Themes
I really never bothered to take a look at the available themes for the Firefox browser thinking that all they would do was to add more Kilobytes to Firefox's me
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Copying bought music is stealing!
That is at least what Jennifer Pariser, the head of litigation for Sony BMG, said when questioned in court about her music piracy understanding.
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Defraggler a defragmentation software
The makers of CCleaner and Recuva have created a new software called Defraggler which is a defragmentation software for Microsoft Windows 2000 up to Windows Vis
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How to reset the Master Password in Firefox
While the Master Password in Firefox is a useful security addition it can soon become a burden if you lost the password that you entered there.
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Writers Tools for Open Office
If you prefer Open Office over Microsoft Office you might find the following plugin for Open Office useful.
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Make sure you set a master password in Firefox
I can't stress the importance of the master password in Firefox if you are one of the users who is letting Firefox save passwords for you so that you do not nee
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Send Text Messages to the Future
Textmemos is a service that lets the user type in text messages that he wants to have delivered at a certain date and time.
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Improve Team Fortress 2 Textures
Team Fortress 2 is an awesome game.
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Merge PDF Files
Winston was asking me if I would know a way to merge one or more pdf files so that the contents of all the files would appear in one pdf file at the end.
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Radiohead is trying a new distribution method
Radiohead is a well known English rock band which was formed in 1986.
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Liquid Rescale plugin for Gimp
You might remember the technology demonstration a few weeks ago that introduced a new way of intelligently resizing images by automatically defining important a
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List all installed Windows Updates
It sometimes might be a good idea to get a list of all installed Windows Updates on your system for administration or security purposes.
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Downgrading iPhone Firmware
I see a lot of parallels between Apple's iPhone and Sony's PSP.
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Tag your Photo Collection
So, you have been on holiday in that beautiful country making lots of photos but after a year you realize that you can't remember the names of most places and p
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Play TV Shows online
If you ever wanted to be a guest in one of those famous tv shows such as Deal or no Deal, Who wants to be a Millionaire or Blockbusters.
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Free online language courses
Most online language courses that I have tested so far do not utilize the advantages of the web at all.
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Joost 1.0 Beta is out
Joost has released yet another version of their acclaimed Internet TV client that streams prerecorded TV shows to the users computer.
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Preezo: Create Powerpoint Presentations Online
Preezo is a fast powerpoint maker on the web.
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Feel the image, become the image
I'm writing this article rather excited because of what I have just seen.
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Monetize your website with TNX ads
I heavily rely on Everton from Connected Internet who sends me new interesting ways to monetize my sites from time to time.
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How to avoid saving spaceball.gif at Flickr
Some images at Flickr are weakly protected with an image overlay called spaceball.
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Display Google Calendar in the Sidebar
If you are using Google Calendar regularly you might find this little Firefox tip interesting.
