Fake virus alerts are a common yet dangerous weapon often used by cybercriminals. These alerts masquerade themselves as legitimate security warnings, tricking users into actions that end up compromising their own digital […]
Calibre is a cross-platform software program for Windows, Mac Os X and Linux that enables you to read and manage ebooks. Ebooks are finally taking off and entering the mainstream with devices […]
This might be very obvious to some, but about 70% of the clients I work with do not know the difference and spend money on something they could be getting for free! […]
News are usually presented in article form on the Internet with links to related articles in and around the content. Silobreaker provides an interesting alternative to the common presentation with the company's […]
Is the image that you are looking at original, or has it been manipulated in an image editor? Image editors have become that good that it is virtually impossible to tell by […]
Those of you who are thinking of giving Linux a try, but are worried that you won't know how to do simple tasks such as controlling network devices, can let out a […]
The common way to scan documents is to use a hardware scanner connected to a PC directly or by using network connections, and a text recognition software afterwards using optical character recognition […]
Vastfm provides an interesting free of charge service that allows users to listen music online; Lots of music to be precise. The website uses mashups to provide content as their servers are […]
Inexperienced users and even some experienced users may find it sometimes difficult to identify legitimate and fake emails. It is sometimes difficult to tell if the email that just arrived in your […]
If you are building a large website, chances are you have a great little CSS stylesheet linked to every document which governs all the pages. But what do you do if you […]
Outlook Attach View is a brand new application by one of our favorite software developers NirSoft. The software is portable as usual and compatible with Windows operating systems like Windows 2000, Windows […]
If you've ever had to create labels for mailings or any other reason you know how complicated labels can be (when using either a word processor or desktop publishing application). If you […]
Win Layout is a useful desktop management software like Maxto, Taekwindow or Freesnap which we have reviewed earlier. The program adds several new controls to the Windows operating system that enable you […]
I think it is interesting to provide some general statistical information about the site and its visitors every now and then. Some users might just skip reading the post while others will […]
If you are new to Linux you might be wondering how you can find out how much free memory your system has or how your memory is being used. For this there […]
iWOW is perhaps my favourite iTunes plug-in. It makes your sound, whether videos, podcasts or music, feel much more vibrant. To dramatically improve sound, the user must simply choose their form of […]
PrintWhatYouLike is a free online service that allows you to manipulate web pages before you send them to your printer to print them out. I felt weird all day today so I […]
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 […]
One of the biggest problems for many webmasters is the unauthorized publishing of their articles on third party websites. Many black hat webmasters take advantage of other webmaster's work by publishing articles […]
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 […]
I have a young step daughter at home and I know that curiosity can get the best of a young teen. I had been looking for an easy solution to deal with […]
While looking for something completely different, I found a handy little tool called Bookmarked Reporter which can parse your site (or use an XML sitemap) and create a report of the delicious […]
Web browser users can enable or disable web proxy servers in their browsers. There is usually no way to configure a different web proxy server based on the visited website, or an […]
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. […]
Software programs that get installed on the computer system can be uninstalled using the supplied uninstaller or by simply deleting the program folder of the application. Doing the latter will keep traces […]
If you use a Debian-based Linux distribution then you probably use Synaptic. And if you use Synaptic enough you may have come across an application that it can not find. When you […]
Since I always go through a lot of 'phases' in the way I use software, I am really interested to know how you guys use your browsers. Basically in the beginning I […]
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 […]
Companies reserve the right to produce, ship and distribute their goods globally. Many produce in cheap labor countries like China, ship the goods around the globe to sell it high in countries […]
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 […]
Cloud computing is a buzz word. It has been made popular with services like Google Docs which allow users to store their documents on a server on the Internet. While it surely […]
If you've seen some WordPress blogs or online stores you've probably seen url-s in the form of http://somepage.com/product.php?id=4. These sites pass variables to scripts using the url. The script will scan the […]
If you use Firefox you probably have had to enter the address about:plugins to see if the plugin you just installed actually did install. But did you know there is another "about" […]
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 […]
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