June 10, 2010
Do you use Malwarebytes as much as I do? I use it 4 or 5 times a day on average. I use it to clean machines that have become infected. The antivirus software on the machines in question have either been compromised or they are not up to date. The only disadvantage of Malwarebytes is [...]
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June 9, 2010
Do you ever have the need to take Windows Mobile screenshots? Well I do and I have to do it often. Sometimes I am working at my desk and I can connect my mobile device to my computer and active sync. Then I run MyMobiler and I can take screenshots from there. But sometimes I [...]
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June 8, 2010
The new web is constantly changing with updated information every few minutes. Take Twitter streams for instance; if you are a busy Tweeter, then there’s something new with each blink of the eye. Now, how do you capture such evolving web pages on a PowerPoint slide? Linking to a web page via a URL is [...]
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June 8, 2010
Does your Windows machine take a long time to boot up? (Insert snarky “switch to Linux” joke here). Well a company has developed a remedy to improve Windows boot time, and it is called Soluto. The way the application works is simple. It installs, then it asks you to reboot and then it watches your [...]
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June 7, 2010
It’s time once again for our featured Movers and Shakers post. Each week, we take one software category and list the top ten most downloaded free apps. This week we are looking at a CNet category entitled Business Software. These are applications that you can use to assist your day to day work. It doesn’t [...]
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June 7, 2010
Most of an average user’s time on the computer is spent browsing the web. Next in line perhaps, is file management (if you do not do other specialized work on the computer). Naturally, having the right tools for the job can make it much easier and faster. The default Windows file manager – Windows Explorer [...]
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June 7, 2010
The Internet is a dangerous place. Viruses, worms, Trojan Horses – there seems to be all manner of threats just waiting to spring on your computer and cause trouble. One way of protecting yourself is, of course, through the use of antivirus program. An antivirus can detect a problem and quarantine the file which is attempting [...]
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June 7, 2010
We use our computers for many things. We store our digital photo albums, videos, important personal files like tax information and so on. Much of this data is irreplaceable, yet all the time I’ve seen friends not backing up their files and I know many other computer users are the same way. If only there [...]
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June 5, 2010
The animated .GIF is a strange form of expression. It is only twenty or thirty frames, completely devoid of sound, repeating in an endless loop. Yet there is something intoxicating about an animated .GIF, like staring into the eyes of a hypnotist. Creating your own animated .GIF from a movie can be a lot of [...]
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June 4, 2010
I have loads of portable software not only on my USB drive, but also on my PC. There’s something uncomplicated about them. While video and mp3 takes over our senses, we forget that the listening experience of radio is still a part of the airwaves; or the digital waves that makes up the internet. As [...]
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June 4, 2010
I have been using Twitter for a little while now and I really enjoy it. But like any other free web service there is always the possibility of losing your data or in this case tweets. Twitter can crash and they can restore from backup losing your recent tweets. Or perhaps they will one day [...]
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June 3, 2010
The trouble with using a shared public computer is that you can’t really control what software is being installed there. The one that we use together at my office is so bloated with so many strange applications that the “Start – Applications” menu is bigger than the computer screen itself. While doing the research for [...]
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June 3, 2010
As I was browsing through old posts at MakeUseOf Answers the other day, I came across a question that gets asked often. How do you merge duplicate files or folders when you’re using a Windows PC? Linux users have simple tools they can use to quickly compare files, like the diff command for example. Here [...]
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June 2, 2010
When it comes to choosing a single calendar solution, I have to admit that it took me a very long time. I’ve always loved the extended functionality of most desktop calendar applications like Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Sunbird, but I preferred the flexibility and mobility of all of the great online calendar solutions like 30Boxes, [...]
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June 2, 2010
Image editors are a large breed. I have been a diehard IrfanView user ever since it came out. It very rightly blows Windows Viewer out of the water. But are there any similar image editors of its ilk; a fast, tiny image editor that can hold up its own with the best of the class? [...]
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