November 9, 2009
Security is probably the most important aspect of any computing experience and probably one of the most neglected. With security measures, like many things, one can go as deep as they want to go but a little effort to employ the basics can go a long way. While it is said that locks are only [...]
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November 8, 2009
I am not much of an Excel hand; spending most of my time either in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint. My most regular use of Excel is as a tool to keep track of my schedule and to list what I am putting out on the web as a writer. So I can safely say that [...]
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November 6, 2009
A lot of old-school writers and producers still use the familiar pen and paper. Others have migrated to the digital world and are using Open Office or MS Word. Personally I’ve never felt quite at home in Word to write a story. Instead, I’ve always been using creative writing suites or pre-production packages. That’s right, [...]
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November 6, 2009
I downloaded this 4.9MB file from Google Code. QMMander is a free open source Windows Explorer alternative and it is pretty cool. It gives you a dual pane experience to relieve you from the pain of having to open two Explorer windows to drag and drop files between. But that’s not all ““ no sir [...]
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November 5, 2009
As many of the regular MakeUseOf readers will know, I tend to do a good few posts about cell phones and cell phone applications such as How to Use Your GPRS Cell Phone as a Modem or my Snaptu article. In both of these articles, I described connecting your cell phone to your PC via [...]
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November 5, 2009
Have you lost your Windows Administrator Password? There are lots of options to recover it nowadays but almost all of them require a third party piece of software. What if I tell you that you can recover your windows administrator password with your install disk? All you need is your install key (hint: this does [...]
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November 4, 2009
I have a hard drive in my system over here that holds confidential information. Occasionally, I have designers and programmers connected to my machine via various methods (most of the time we use the free UltraVNC) and I wouldn’t want them pulling up my, uhh umm, “not safe for work” content by accident. Come on [...]
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November 3, 2009
You must understand that what I am about to reveal to you puts me in mortal danger. Men in black and white fuel-efficient vehicles may show up at my door and threaten me with terminating screwdrivers. Those are the easy ones to spot. It’s the independent contractor that you never see coming. They could be [...]
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November 3, 2009
The two, Word and “˜Word Blindness’ don’t gel together in a single sentence. But for me, it was a fact for quite some time. I was not familiar with some of Microsoft Word’s most common features and the way they could be tweaked or extended. It was only after I was forced to stay on the [...]
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November 3, 2009
Microsoft’s Outlook is the big brother of Outlook Express, which is Window’s default desktop eMail client. Outlook is part of Microsoft’s Office suite. It comes with a lot of extra features compared to Outlook Express, including time/event management, contact management, and Microsoft Exchange Server support to synchronize and share information. Arguably, Outlook Express is a [...]
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November 2, 2009
A lot of people reading this website are technically-savvy and heroes when it comes to computer troubleshooting. In fact, many readers could earn a small fortune on the side just by offering online PC support and helping computer newbie’s work through very simple computer issues. As massive social networks like Facebook brings millions of brand [...]
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November 2, 2009
Who doesn’t want a little magic in life? It’s always welcomed. While I am no magician, I sure know of an application that can work some magic on your photos. Yeah! No prize for guessing – it’s Photoshop. This article is about adding magic to your photos, literally, using Photoshop and some pixie dust! Here [...]
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October 31, 2009
Within my last post I mentioned that deleted eMails can be recovered in Thunderbird, even if the Trash can was emptied. The only prerequisite is, that the incoming folder was not compacted. Here is the post that will shed light on how to recover deleted emails in Thunderbird. So if you have recently deleted an [...]
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October 31, 2009
Wow, my MP3 collection dating back to 1998 is in a pretty sorry condition. Tags are wrong or missing, song names are missing from the music track, bit rates are wacky. All of my files come from different locations or methods of ripping, so they are all different. One day, I will have some time [...]
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October 31, 2009
A few months ago, our dog chewed through the cables for our satellite TV. That’s her in the picture. She also chewed $300 worth of computer cables, but that’s not the point. A few weeks ago, we got sick of not having television, so we bought a D-Link DivX Connected device that allows us to [...]
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