Record Sounds from any source
While Audacity is a great audio editing utility with the ability to record sounds and edit them afterwards it still felt a little bit overweight for the mere ta
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Game for the Weekend Wing Commander Saga
Wing Commander back in the 90s was a phenomenal successful game franchise and is still considered one of the best - if not the best - space simulation game that
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Add Codecs to Windows Vista Media Center
If you use the Windows Vista Media Center you might have noticed that playback for various formats is not supported by default.
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Thunderbird Birthday Reminder
Birthday Reminder is a sweet little add-on for Mozilla Thunderbird which does exactly what the name implies: It reminds you of upcoming birthdays of users that
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Windows Vista Services Explained
Do you remember Blackvipers services recommendations for Windows XP ? The site helped me a lot when I started using Windows XP by explaining the services that w
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Protect your Wireless Lan
More and more users use wireless connections to connect to the Internet, many do receive a wireless lan router by default from their internet provider and forge
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Fix to remove Sony Ericsson Desktop Icon
A good friend of mine recently brought her mobile with her and connected it to my computer.
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Configure tabbed browsing in Firefox
Firefox users can configure their tabbed browsing experience by using the about:config command in the address bar.
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The complete guide to optimizing Windows XP
Windows XP will be the dominant operating system for the next years even though Microsoft released the successor Windows Vista just a few days ago.
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How to Download Songs from Myspace
It seems that someone found out a way to create download links to the mp3 files that one can listen to on the profile pages of the bands that have a myspace web
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It's All Text! Firefox Extension
I have not been posting new Firefox extensions for some time and I think it is mainly due to the fact that I got all the good ones covered and that only a few n
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Floola is an iTunes alternative
Floola is a multi-platform freeware replacement for iTunes which adds some much needed features that iTunes does not offer.
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Encode divx movies for certain devices
If you are looking for an easy way to convert divx movies for special devices such as mobile players, pdas or mobiles you should take a look at the excellent fr
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Lock Folders in Windows
Windows has no obvious method to lock folders, even administrators have no obvious way of locking folders.
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Link your Images to Google Earth
Taking pictures while you are on holiday is one thing, linking those pictures to Google Earth using the geolocation feature is the next level.
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Reduce the folder size of Thunderbird to free up disk space
I experienced some troubles installing files on my system and discovered that my partition with Windows was having only 50 megabytes of free space.
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Remove rogue antispyware, antivirus and hard drive utilities
We all known that quite a few spammers make big bucks by offering software like antivirus, antispyware or hard drive utilities whose main function is to either
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Enlarge the Windows Open File Dialog Box
It is really painful to open a file in Windows if the directory that contains the file has a lot of files.
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Extend the Vista activation period
Did you know that it is possible to extend the 30 day evaluation period of Windows Vista to a maximum of 120 days with a single command from the command line ?
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Hide Files in Pictures
I never was a great fan of programs that would hide files or information but I can see that some people might find this kind of tools useful.
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Game for the weekend Ray-Hound
Ray-Hound is a freeware arcade game with great graphics and interesting gameplay.
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Lock Firefox Settings on public computers
Everyone is able to download all the files that he wants and change the preferences of your Firefox browser if he gets access to it.
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Run a local proxy server
I was so excited to write this article that I could not sleep well all night.
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Host your own webserver
It is relatively easy to use your home computer running Windows to become a webserver that is accessible from anywhere.
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Make Clean Installs with Vista Update DVDs
For some time everyone thought that it was only possible to use a Vista update DVD from within Windows XP to update to the latest operating system.
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Sysinternals Suite
If you ever wanted to download all the troubleshooting applications from sysinternals at once you can do so by downloading the Sysinternals suite right from Mic
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An alternative to file hosts
File hosts are extremely useful if you need webspace to make the file available to a larger audience.
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Block IP addresses with Peer Guardian
Why would you need another program to block IP addresses if you already have a firewall ? A good question that can be answered easily.
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Find and remove duplicate images
Have you ever tried to manually check a image collection for duplicates ? It would take ages to find the duplicates in my image collection and I was looking for
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How to join, split and create mp4, mov and 3gp files
A long timer reader asked in the forum if I knew of a program that would be able to join mp4 files.
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Find out which devices have been connected to your pc
Normally you do not see which devices have been connected to your computer in the past.
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Fake Torrent Finder
Fake torrents are spread into the system by organizations for two reasons.
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Remove duplicate files with Doublekiller
Doublekiller scans the selected folders and hardrives for duplicate files that are detected by comparing at least one of the following filters: identical names,
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Keep a Daily Diary
It was only a matter of time until someone create a software that would function as a virtual diary.
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Protect your Firefox Profile
A Firefox profile stores all personal information such as bookmarks and passwords in it.
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Recover Deleted Files with Undelete Plus
I delete files most of the time by pressing down the shift key which will delete them immediately without moving them to the trashbin first.
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Share the iTunes Library on a network
I don't like the iTunes software that much - it is slow and big and the only reason for me to use it is that it is the offical software that comes with the iPod.
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Game for the Weekend Bloodmasters
I write an article every Friday about a new great game that could entertain you during your weekend.
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Microsoft admits to a 1% false positive WGA check ratio
Microsoft recently published updated figures about their Windows Genuine Advantage protection that tries to hinder users of illegal versions of Microsoft Windo
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Play your MP3 collection remotely
If you are using different computers to work with you might have experienced the problem that you can't listen to your mp3 collection on all of them.
