How good is your antivirus program or firewall? It is hard to tell as a end user. Sure, you can rely on information provided by test magazines, Internet websites, antivirus and firewall […]
How do you create buzz on the Internet? One of the most successful ways is a viral marketing campaign. Samsung thought of a great way of promoting the company's new 256GB MLC […]
IDPhotoStudio is a free program for Microsoft Windows devices that helps you prepare photos for printing on various ID cards. ID card photo printing refers to the process of printing a number […]
One of the nicest features that the Opera web browser supports is the so called Scroll Marker. This feature - when enabled - will display a transparent line at every page break […]
Adding new entries to the Windows right-click context menu is no easy task if you only have the tools the Windows operating system ships with at your disposal. While you can manipulate […]
Desk Drive is a free software program for various versions of the Windows operating system including Windows 7 and Windows 8 that improves the usability of the system in an interesting way. […]
Photology is a digital photo software for the Windows operating system that helps you find and view digital photos on the computer system. The application will automatically monitor select locations on the […]
Update: New versions of Windows come with functionality to add multiple clocks to the system. Those are then displayed when you hover over the clock in the system tray or click on […]
Check Flash is a small portable software program for Microsoft Windows operating systems that can be used to benchmark usb flashdrives. Designed for a time when USB Flash drives were not overly […]
OpenTTD is an open-source, cross-platform clone of the 1995 classic 'Transport Tycoon Deluxe'. The simulation game allows you to run a transport company from its humble beginnings to becoming a global player. […]
If you cannot get used to the ribbon interface of Microsoft Office 2007, 2010, 2013 or 2016 because it does not display all the options needed to do the job in one […]
Panda Security has released a new security software program that increases the security of usb flash drives. The portable software program called USB Vaccine provides you with options to vaccinate both the […]
One of the main problems that users of multi-user Windows XP systems experience is that the default internet browser is set as a system setting that affects all user accounts. If one […]
The release candidate of Windows 7 comes with a surprising new feature in the Control Panel that will please many advanced users. A main point of criticism for users of previous Microsoft […]
USB Blocker is a free program for Microsoft Windows devices that enables you to block USB ports on the computer to improve security. System administrators do not only have to make sure […]
As far as PC desktops are concerned the Linux operating system runs the gamut of look and feel. But like most user-space applications, there are certain elements of the desktop that users […]
Windows Live Messenger Content Retriever is a free program for Microsoft Windows to download media from Windows Live Messenger. If Windows Live Messenger is your instant messenger of choice, you may like […]
A complaint of browser developer Opera that Microsoft has undermined competition by integrating its own Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system is currently being investigated by the European Union. If Microsoft […]
Autostart Explorer is a free program for Microsoft Windows that helps you manage program autostarts on devices running Windows. Autoruns is for many experienced computer users the only software program worth mentioning […]
Your hard disk space may seem increasingly small but you may not be aware what is taking the space. I, for example, subscribed to dozens of podcasts but naively overlooked them when […]
If you have used Linux at all you have seen what is called the Pager. Many new users have no idea what this is and many experienced users don't necessarily know how […]
Comodo System Cleaner is a computer cleanup tool that combines the functionality of registry cleaners, disk cleaners and privacy cleaners in one application. The software can be used to scan the registry […]
Mail Cure is a portable software application for the Windows operating system that has been designed to recover accidentally deleted email messages. Mail Cure does not only look for existing mail databases […]
No Sleep is a free portable program for Microsoft Windows computer systems that prevents external hard drives from entering sleep mode. Some external hard drives make use of a hard coded sleep […]
It may sound like we've stepped back to Computers 101, but copy and pasting in Linux can sometimes be a bit different than it is in either Windows or Mac. The good […]
Polyglot 3000 is a free program for Microsoft Windows that will identify the language of text that you type or paste in its interface. Did it happen to you that you have […]
Newt is a network monitoring software similar to the previously mentioned network monitoring software Networx or Look@Lan. The network monitor uses a multi-threaded scanning engine that scans all remote computer systems and […]
Spyme Tools is a free installation monitor for Windows that logs system changes that software installations make. Many software programs have to be installed on a computer system before they can be […]
HP's USB Disk Storage Format Tool is a free program for Windows that you may use to make USB devices like Flash Drives bootable. There is no direct way to make USB […]
There is definitely no shortcomings when it comes to chat possibilities on the Internet. Users who want to chat find billions of options from using Instant Messengers over email to forums and […]
Sometimes, you may urgently need to share information with a friend or family member. Or maybe you need to access a particular file from another computer. The easiest way to do this […]
While I'm overall pretty happy with the purchase of the OCZ Core Series II SATA Solid State Drive some disadvantages do come to light every now and then. This happens in situations […]
Mobile Internet Access has seen a huge rise in the last years with the advent of netbooks and other mobile devices that have been primarily designed for Internet access. While most mobile […]
Live Mesh Beta is a online file synchronization service based on Microsoft's Live platform. The service is comparable to other file synchronization services like Dropbox. In its current stage only computers running […]
I administer a LOT of Linux systems. Most of those systems information are in a file I keep that tells me what their passwords are. I normally either do not forget a […]
ScanDir is a free directory lists manager for the Windows operating system. At its core stands a GUI powered search engine that performs incredible fast searches in selected directories or partitions of […]
Accelerators are a new feature of Microsoft's upcoming web browser Internet Explorer 8 that have recently been ported to other web browsers like Firefox in the form of add-ons. Like the name […]
Maxto is a software program for the Windows operating system that can divide all connected computer monitor screens into different areas that act independently from each other. The effect is that windows […]
Jellybean is not your usual wallpaper changer. That much becomes apparent after launching the application for the first time. The options to change wallpapers are limited to changing them manually in the […]
Recently I installed the amazing desktop Elive Compiz. After getting it up and running I decided I needed to get some screencasts of the desktop in order to show off what it […]
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