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How to Make Utorrent Faster
Utorrent is pretty much the number 1 bittorrent client (feel free to argue below), being standalone and under 300KB, yet sophisticated and…well in other words, if all software were like uTorrent the world would be a much happier place, unfortu...
Windows Live Messenger Not Remembering Your Email?
Windows Live Messenger keeps getting fancier, the latest version has visual customization incorporated at every possible location in your messenger window almost as if it’s target audience is for pre-teens, personally I prefer the previous vers...
How to Schedule a Computer Shutdown
Do you need to shutdown your computer at a specific time? You might need to do this for a number of reasons, an ideal situation maybe you are downloading a file overnight and you sleep 12 hours a day (because, maybe you are unemployed) but you are p...
How to Open RAR Files
RAR files have become increasingly common in terms of compressed files that it has almost become second nature, specially in illegal online file sharing networks and also several webmasters today share any personal downloadable files on their websit...
10 Free Tools to Rename Files Effectively
Renaming isn’t really something we focus on so much as to use a dedicated software for it, most operating systems provide renaming on the fly in just a few clicks. However you might encounter situations where you need to rename multiple file...
How to Permanently Delete a File
Windows provides a nifty feature to easily and quickly delete any files, but is it, really? A while back I posted on how you can recover your deleted files, a few days back I gave you a list of 10 applications that lets you recover deleted files, w...
How to Open WPS Files
A WPS file is a document file type similar to the well known DOC type however with less formatting that DOC offers. WPS files aren’t really as common as the other standard document file types (doc, txt, rtf) however used in popular document app...
10 Tools to Recover Deleted Files
I recently enlightened you on how you can recover your deleted files, well there are dozens of similar software tools (freeware and shareware) developed for this purpose however their performance may vary, below I’ve highlighted the top 10 tool...
WinX DVD Ripper Review
Review Details Company – Digiarty Software Version – 4.1.1 (free) Operating System – Windows XP Summary Media converters are a dime a dozen in the software market today, thus staying afloat the competition requires something out of the ordinar...
Give Your Blog a Voice
Text can get boring, online, offline, anywhere you see, the main form of information representation is via text. While it’s one of those things that cannot be replaced and never runs out of style it can be hard to read an entire article without...
CounterSpy Review
Summary Antispyware software has taken centre stage lately with spyware becoming just as harmful a threat as viruses. Ad Aware and Spyware Doctor have established quite a name for themselves in this industry however Sunbelt Software has put together ...
How to Manage Your Downloads Better On Firefox
Firefox has proven to be one of the best web browsers undoubtedly staying in par in terms of features and performance and also appreciating in market share continually. However, the default download manager of Firefox, while introducing the pause fea...
How to Copy Your Files Faster
Do you copy files often? With the performance of computers increasing by the day, and having spoilt us with most functions computer related performed ‘instantly’ copying files can be a real hassle as they aren’t really instant as we...
Have a Gmail Account? Turn it into a Hard Drive
Gmail is arguably the best mail service, with its simplicity and speed of execution of its features. The other striking factor is the massive 7GB+ storage space (and counting) which only a few would ever really utilize completely (I am currently usin...
How to Find Out Which EXE Files are Safe
Malicious software developers are becoming more tactical in disguising the identity of a virus, they do this by hiding them and naming them with something unsuspecting and crafty. You can’t really determine if a file on your system is safe to r...
How to Take Care of Duplicate Bookmarks
Are you a bookmark junkie? Do you haphazardly bookmark pages for ‘later use’. Whether you actually would refer it later or never look at it again. Nevertheless, at some point of realization you might find your bookmarks completely clutter...
How to Split Animated GIFs into Frames
GIF images are the image files you see that usually animate. They are created using several static frames (just like any other motion picture) and used in websites for banners and other web based representation as they are very lightweight. Sometimes...
How to Backup Your Firefox Profile
If you are a frequent surfer, your browser handles a lot of aspects of your surfing, if you happen to lose this data for some reason, restoring all your personal data to its previous state manually can be a real hassle. The data you need consists of ...
How to Add a Poll to Your Website
As I stated in the ‘Introducing Polls‘ post, polls are a great way to get to know what’s popular, what’s best and is the ’safest’ way to conclude something on a very heated topic. It’s also a great way to get...
Poll:What is the Best Web Browser?
To honor the example used in the introductory post to polls, I thought I’ll start it off with one of the most heated topics in this niche and the blogosphere itself. There’s no doubt the war has begun once again! The browser wars that is,...
The Different Types of Operating Systems
An operating system is the single most important software when you run a computer, it is what takes care of pretty much everything on a computer system, while the majority of computers we see happen to be using one ‘type’ of operating sys...
Looking to Keep Things Mutual on Twitter?
You can’t talk about Twitter enough, Twitter is a classic example of viral marketing, based on how Twitter became popular and how stories can spread on Twitter. The growth of Twitter and ‘tweeting’ or ‘twittering’ has al...
Still Outdated With Your Word Processor?
It’s been a while since Microsoft rolled out the docx format which handles documents in the new releases of Microsoft Office, this format has been the default format for all Office documents since Microsoft Office 2007 was released, however the...
Have Your Files Disappeared From Your Hard Drive?
You might have noticed files on your hard drive mysteriously ‘disappearing’, as in you can’t find your files but the disk space that the file requires is still unavailable, if this is the case go ahead and breathe a sigh of relief a...
How to Record Your Screen Activity
Ever needed to capture your screen in action? You might need this feature for several reasons, the main purpose would probably be to create on screen video tutorials for explanation, or you might just want this feature as it’s ‘cool’...
Need to Pick a Color On Your Screen?
If you are into any form of creating or editing with your computer that involves color you might probably need to know the exact hex value of that really cool shade you noticed on a website or in a random application, whether you want it to be a pa...
How to Download Videos on Youtube
This is a question many are seeking the answer for that has had several solutions already available in the form of web based scripts, browser addons and standalone applications. To clear the doubt once and for all (and hoping that this should appear ...
Opera Looking to Turn Your Local Computer into a Web Server
The Internet has been set ablaze once again with news from Google, like the release of Chrome, the recent announcement of the Google Chrome OS has become a trending topic in technology blogs and websites. Looking at their past web applications as wel...
Need to Rename Several Files at Once?
Renaming files is no big deal really, with today’s easy to use operating systems all you need to do is right click the file, click rename, rename the file, and you’re done, but just like everything else doing something over and over can b...
Looking For a Good Photoshop Alternative?
The birth of photoshop has pretty much revolutionized photography so much so that it’s commonly used as a verb today. Images too ‘awesome’ to be true are usually accused of being ‘photoshopped’ and I guess that pretty mu...
