I’ve been using Windows Vista for a couple of months now and find it absolutely wonderful, like everything it has it quirks and if you were a hard-core XP user like myself you will find yourself wearing a new pair of shoes when using Windows Vista. To ease the pain I wrote up this simple…Continue Reading
iColor Folder allows you to easily color code folders in your computer. Once installed you can right-click on any folder and assign a color to it. I have been using the software for some time now and find it very useful. I color the folders I use most often red so that they automatically grab…Continue Reading
I have about 50 DVD’s that I have purchased over time, that’s close to $1,000 worth in just movies (assuming $20 per movie) I would like to know, that in case my DVD gets scratched or damaged, I have a backup of that movie somewhere. I have been using DVD Shrink now for a little…Continue Reading
I must admit that sometimes I can be rather lazy…lazy to the point that I wont go to the start menu to shut off my computer, I rather have a button on my desktop that is always accesible that allows me to turn of my computer the minute I double-click it. Below you will find…Continue Reading
If you have a valid Windows XP installation you can download Microsoft’s shared Computer Toolkit. The toolkit allows you to control restrictions and other settings on your computer. The toolkit is aimed public computers (school computers, libraries, Internet Cafe’s, etc), but in my experience it can also be used at home. If you have one…Continue Reading
I personally dislike Lotus Notes as an e-mail client, however I am forced to use it in my office where most of my business related e-mail is sent. Aside from having to deal with a piece of software I dislike, I have to put up with its crappy search function, enter Microsoft Desktop Search Lotus…Continue Reading
I started using this tool from Microsoft a couple of days ago. I find it very useful in that it allows me to synchronize my files (specifically directories) from my laptop to my external hard disk. The neat thing about it is that it keeps track of changes made to files and synchronizes based on…Continue Reading
This step-by-step visual guide will show you how to disable the sometimes annoying Windows XP feature that automatically adds network folders & printers which you may already have installed on your system. Doing this will prevent the computer from having printers that are no longer on the network to stop appearing as well as preventing…Continue Reading
There are several ways in which your computer’s performance can be improved. A number of them involve easy tweaks, while others involve a little more effort from the user. I will cover all the diferent methods of optimization based on level of ease. Hopefuly once you have completed all the steps listed below you will…Continue Reading
Windows 2000 and Windows XP have a built-in performance monitor that essentially monitors your computer’s performance. This feature is something that is hardly used by most users and therefore remains in the background using valuable system resources. If you’re looking to improve your systems performance, follow the steps below to disable this feature. 1. Download…Continue Reading
Windows contains a lot of visual effects and elements that tend to use valuable resources that would otherwise be used for something useful, by disabling ome of those visual effects you will gain some performance that will add to the overall improvement of your machine. If you prefer to view a step-by step video click…Continue Reading
Windows Vista Public Beta will be made available sometime in April/May time frame. If you wish to participate and get your own copy of Windows Vista Beta follow this link: Download Here
AdAware is a privacy tool, that scans your memory, registry, hard, removable and optical drives for known data-mining, aggressive advertising, and tracking components. It then lists the results and offers to remove or quarantine the components. The program detects a wide range of adware/spyware related issues and can be updated with the latest signatures via…Continue Reading
If you’re building up an extensive collection of movies in the new Blu-ray format, chances are that you’ve spent a couple of bucks putting it together. To help protect that small fortune that you call a movie collection, there are a couple of apps out there that will help you backup these discs so that…Continue Reading
If you are looking for a quick, easy and FREE method to convert your favorite movies and TV shows to a format you can take with you anywhere, you need to check out BDlot Video Converter. BDlot Video Converter is part of a greater suite of applications that allows you to convert videos to any…Continue Reading
With the imminent launch of iOS 5 for the iPhone and the iPad, Apple is moving forward with its new music offering for iTunes, Match. iTunes Match stores your entire music library in iCloud (another new service from Apple debuting this fall). When you store your music in iCloud you can access it from anywhere…Continue Reading
One of the settings I always enjoyed in Outlook is the ability to customize work hours so that my available time (work time) would appear on the calendar as a reminder not to schedule anything past a certain time. Google has taken this concept event further and now allows users to hide those morning and…Continue Reading
Just the other day I needed to print a monthly calendar in Mac OS X and realized that I had never done it before. When I opened the print dialog box I was amazed at the number of options available to print a calendar in iCal. So I decided to write this guide to help…Continue Reading
Have you ever found yourself looking for a particular set of files that are either named similarly or are of the same file type? Rather than perform a search in Mac OS to locate these files each time you want to access them, you have the option of creating a Smart Folder to simplify this…Continue Reading
