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Tutorial – How to Create a Blogger Template Using Adobe Photoshop - Part...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Friday, October 15, 2010
Search for files containing known data with File Searcher
When searching for a particular file on your HDD I recommend “everything” from Voidtools. (here). With this small application you can search for files that you know the name of and sidestem the resource exhaustive Windows Indexing service. We all know that there are times when we’ve saved a file yet have forgotten the name we gave the file. Yet we do remember parts of the text or data in the particular word doc, or PDF file, or Excel spreadsheet. In these cases I would recommend File Searcher from MariusSoft. (here) File Searcher allows you to search any file in any location for any content easily and quickly. File Searcher features a powerful regular expression engine that searches any type of file for any given regular...
Thursday, October 14, 2010
5 Lesser Known Good Features of Google Earth | PCMech
5 Lesser Known Good Features of Google Earth PCMech
If you enjoy tinkering with Google Earth like I do, this post will show you some interesting new ways to use Google Ear...
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Access Any Folder With Two Clicks Using Folder Guide
After using our respective system for a while, we all have tendencies towards the folders we use on a regular basis. Be it saving or opening from these locations, the ability to access these folders quickly can be a nice time saver. A utility which make the process of accessing these folders quick and easy is Folder Guide. With Folder Guide, you can access all the locations you configure easily from right click menus or save/open dialogs which, again, can really save you some mouse clicks. A nice thing about the Folder Guide design is that it integrates into the Windows shell with means it uses a negligible amount of system resources. Give this one a try....
Convert Files From One Format To Another With No Middleware
Have you ever received a file which you need to view but don’t have the right program to properly display it? Rather than downloading and installing a one time use program, try using Zamzar to convert the file to a format you know. Zamzar is a simple concept: you upload the file you want to convert, select the desired format and then they email a link to download the converted file to you. Zamzar supports lots of file types (although most are pretty common) and also does conversion of video sites (i.e. YouTube) directly to files as well. The site requires no signup and the files are converted on a first-come, first-serve basis with registered users getting priority over free users. This could mean your conversion may take some time depending...
Fine Tune Your Solid State Drives With SSD Tweaker
You can take a look at the features and a screenshot here, but here are a few items which may be of interest: Windows Indexing Service Windows Defrag Ntfs Memory Usage Disable 8.3 Filenames Windows Prefetcher This is worth a look for system tweakers who want to experiment a bit what their SSD can do....
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
ZumoDrive – Cloud Storage And Dropbox Alternative | PCMech
ZumoDrive – Cloud Storage And Dropbox Alternative PCMech
ZumoDrive is yet another example of cloud storage, similar to Dropbox, SpiderOak, SugarSync, box.net, and so ...
Sizer – Ultimate Windows Resizing Utility?
Back when I was using Windows XP, one of my always-had-installed-no-matter-what utilities was Sizer. The reason? Because I like being able to resize any window I want to specific sizes. Then Windows 7 came along and Sizer didn’t work in it, so I was bummed out about that. FireSizer was good for Firefox and gets the job done in fine style, but only for Firefox. But lo and behold, v3.32 of Sizer works in Windows 7. Awesome. My oh-so favorite window resizer of all time now has a version that works in the OS I use today. This is why I champion this little program so much: 1. I can resize any window I want, as said above. Browser, word processor, image editor, etc. There’s not too many windows Sizer can’t resize. 2. It has the option to center...
Why you shouldn’t use the same Username / Password on many sites.
Are you guilty of using the same user name and password on all sites where you have an account? If so then you should really not be doing this. Consider the following scenario: You create a new account at SiteXYZ.com using your typical user name and password. SiteXYZ.com has implemented its user and password storage in the database to save this data as plain (unhashed) text. Now suppose SiteXYZ.com gets hacked with the attacker able to get access to the user and password information (which is stored in plain text) or the owner of SiteXYZ.com is an unscrupulous individual who is simply harvesting login information from people creating accounts. The person who now has the user and password information starts trying it on common sites (such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and...
Windows XP Version of Windows Live Essentials
Windows Live Essentials 2011 is only for Vista SP2 or Windows 7 and not Windows XP. Any attempt to run the installer on XP won’t work. In addition the website makes it appear as if the XP version of the software is no longer available. It is still possible however to download the XP version of the Live Essentials software, so if you have a computer with XP and require software from that suite (such as Windows Live Mail or Windows Live Photo Gallery), here’s how to go about it: Quick way Download the English language wlsetup-web.exe installer from here, run the file and install the software you need. If that download link becomes broken for whatever reason, or you need a language other than English, use the slow way below. Slow way...
