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How to Make Photos of Documents Look Like Scanned Copies

Sep 29, 2011 0 comments

If you have a digital camera you already have a basic scanner, except photographs from your camera just doesn’t look like a scanned copy. Th...

How to Restore Specific Files from Windows System Restore Points

Sep 29, 2011 2 comments

It is hardly necessary to recapitulate how useful and convenient Windows System Restore feature is. Whether an operating system file got cor...

Download Individual Components of Kingsoft Office Suite 2012

Sep 29, 2011 1 comments

Early this month, Kingsoft unveiled a completely free office suite program , Kingsoft Office Suite 2012, which is fully compatible with all ...

How to Darken Entire Screen Except the Active Window

Sep 27, 2011 2 comments

If you frequently deal with business clients to whom you have to show things on your laptop screen, you might feel uncomfortable showing you...

How to Put a Second Image on Top of Your Desktop Wallpaper

Sep 26, 2011 0 comments

We put all sorts of things on top of our desktop wallpaper - icons, clocks, RSS Feeds , calendars and widgets. Why not another image? Overl...

The History and Future of Laptops

Sep 26, 2011 3 comments

"Portability" has long been an important goal in the world of computers. ENIAC, generally considered the world's first compute...

Backup Windows and Office 2010 Activation With Advanced Tokens Manager

Sep 24, 2011 0 comments

Everyone knows the benefit of backing up files and data, but what is the use of backing up license and activation keys of software such as W...

PickMeApp Transfers Installed Programs from One PC to Another

Sep 24, 2011 0 comments

Whether you’ve bought a new computer or just re-installed Windows on your old one, one chore that we all hate doing is reinstalling programs...

YouTube Now Automatically Edits Long Boring Videos into Short Movies

Sep 23, 2011 0 comments

Recently YouTube introduced an easy to use video editor that allowed users to upload videos and then use the online editor to trim videos, s...

Winners of CollageIt Giveaway

Sep 21, 2011 2 comments

Here are the results of the CollageIt giveaway which we organized last week. CollageIt is an easy-to-use and automatic photo collage maker ...

Keep Both Old Start Menu and Metro at the Same Time [Windows 8]

Sep 20, 2011 5 comments

Currently, there are no less than six different utilities that let you switch between the old Windows 7 styled Start menu and the new Metro ...

GCompris Educational Games Suite for Kids

Sep 20, 2011 0 comments

GCompris is an open source educational games and software suite which contains a wide range of activities meant for young children in the 2...

3 Volume Control Tools With Pretty On-Screen Displays

Sep 19, 2011 1 comments

When watching movies on my computer, I like to a have large on-screen display of volume level when I use the dedicated volume control keys o...

More Dismantlement Games + Walkthroughs

Sep 19, 2011 0 comments

The Dismantlement series from Gam.eBB.jp is a popular series of point-and-click puzzle games where you dismantle everyday household objects ...

How to Make File History Backup to Local Drives in Windows 8

Sep 18, 2011 1 comments

In my previous article I introduced the File History utility in Windows 8 and described its various settings and usages. Now the industry r...

Use File History to Backup and Restore Previous Versions of Files in Windows 8

Sep 18, 2011 1 comments

With Windows 8 Microsoft introduced a new back up and restore tool called File History. Just like System Restore is able to restore the stat...

How to Setup Picture (Pattern) Password in Windows 8

Sep 17, 2011 0 comments

Aside from the regular text password based login, Windows 8 has a gesture based login process made exclusively for touch screens but can als...

How to Enable Hibernation in Windows 8

Sep 17, 2011 2 comments

You must have noticed that Windows 8 does not have a hibernate option in the start menu. Those who are aware of the powercfg –h on command ...

How to Change Fahrenheit to Celsius in Metro Weather App [Windows 8]

Sep 16, 2011 19 comments

The Weather App in Windows 8 Metro start screen displays temperatures in Fahrenheit. This obsolete scale is popular only in the United State...

Easily Change File Extension From Context Menu

Sep 16, 2011 1 comments

Changing extension of files is quite a chore in Windows. First, you have to enable display of file extension in explorer by choosing the app...

A New Windows 8 Theme for Windows 7

Sep 16, 2011 0 comments

All Windows 8 visual styles for Windows 7 that has been released till date are based on either leaked builds of Windows 8 or or screenshots ...

How to Disable Metro, Get Old Start Menu But Keep Explorer Ribbon in Windows 8

Sep 16, 2011 1 comments

If you downloaded Windows 8 Developer Preview and playing with it, like millions of others right now, there are some things you might be pr...

How to Share Wireless Internet Connection Without a Router

Sep 15, 2011 1 comments

Most people who have more than one computer and internet capable devices such as laptop, mobile phones or game consoles, have a wireless net...

Settings Necessary to Install Windows 8 in VirtualBox

Sep 14, 2011 6 comments

In my last post I mentioned that I couldn’t get Windows 8 to install on VMware Player, which is how I discovered the new Blue Screen of Deat...

Windows 8 Gets a New Blue Screen of Death

Sep 14, 2011 3 comments

So I was trying to install Windows 8 Developer build in VMware Player and got the screen below. Apparently, the installation had failed. Ini...

Collage Making Software CollageIt [Giveaway]

Sep 14, 2011 1 comments

Collage is a form of art where you assemble multiple images of different sizes and forms to produce a single image. You often see collages i...

How to Create Windows 8 Bootable USB Drive

Sep 14, 2011 2 comments

The Windows 8 Developer Preview which Microsoft revealed at the BUILD conference yesterday is an ISO file, of course, just like any other op...

Folder Options X Brings Extra Features to Windows 7 Explorer

Sep 14, 2011 3 comments

Folder Options X is a free Windows Explorer add-on that brings three simple features to Windows Vista and Windows 7 explorer. The first t...

Comodo TrustConnect VPN for Free

Sep 13, 2011 1 comments

Comodo TrustConnect is an OpenVPN service from the creators of the popular Comodo Firewall, that allows you to surf the web safely. TrustCon...

Winners of SailfishVPN Giveaway

Sep 10, 2011 2 comments

Early this week, we had a giveaway organized for SailfishVPN . As promised we are giving away 50 accounts of the said VPN service which are ...

6 Digital Comic Book Readers (or Image Viewers)

Sep 9, 2011 4 comments

Digital comic books are usually archives of individual page images saved with the extension CBZ or CBR, which are simply renamed ZIP and RAR...

Why You Shouldn’t Save JPEG Images in Quality 7 in Photoshop

Sep 8, 2011 3 comments

When trying to resave a digital image in the JPEG file format, one is often required to make a decision as to what quality setting or level ...

NbuExplorer: Extract Contacts, SMS, Pictures, Notes from Nokia PC Suite’s Backup File

Sep 7, 2011 2 comments

The Nokia PC Suite software package enables Nokia phone owners to manage their devices from their computer. The software allows tasks such a...

Kingsoft Office Suite 2012 Goes Freeware

Sep 7, 2011 7 comments

Kingsoft Office Suite 2012 is a complete user-friendly office suite for Windows that offers a number of features for creating, viewing and e...

Novelo Turns Your Facebook Page Into an eStore

Sep 5, 2011 0 comments

If you run an online store and also have a prominent Facebook page, there is a new app that makes it possible for you to merge both into one...

Google Correlate: A New Tool to Find Search Trends by Drawing Graphs

Sep 5, 2011 0 comments

Last May, Google launched an experimental new tool on Google Labs which enables you to find queries whose search trend over a period of time...

Test Your Document's Readability in Microsoft Word

Sep 3, 2011 1 comments

Readability is the ease in which text can be read and understood, as in the quality of written language. This should not be confused with ‘l...

World's First Virtual Store Opens in Korea

Sep 2, 2011 1 comments

A major South Korean retailer has opened what it appears to be the world's first virtual store geared to smartphone users, where shopper...

3-Month Long Free Accounts of SailfishVPN

Sep 2, 2011 1 comments

Warning: Based on their failure to deliver on promises, I suggest all people looking to signup for Sailfish VPN to look elsewhere. Here are...

Winners of Agnitum Outpost Security Suite Pro 7.5

Sep 2, 2011 4 comments

Here are the results of the Agnitum Outpost Security Suite Pro 7.5 giveaway which concluded on Tuesday. If you have taken part in the conte...

How to Delete/Remove Macro Viruses From Word Documents

Sep 2, 2011 1 comments

A macro virus is a malicious program that is written by using the macro language built into a software application such as Word. Since Micro...

Bitdefender Safego Protects You From Twitter Malware

Sep 2, 2011 0 comments

Bitdefender Safego is a free tool designed to scan links posted on a user’s social network accounts and detect spam, scams and other e-threa...

How to Find Amazon Merchants that Ship Items to Your Country and Internationally

Sep 1, 2011 12 comments

Amazon is a global marketplace where sellers and buyers from around the world can sale and buy goods. The company being based on the U.S. ca...

Free BDlot Video Converter, WinX DVD Ripper and WinX Blu-ray Decrypter

Sep 1, 2011 0 comments

A number of DVD and Blu-ray related software from Digiarty Software, Inc. and LotSoft are currently up for free grabs. Digiarty Software’s p...

Enable Full Context Menu in Windows When Multiple Files Are Selected

Sep 1, 2011 1 comments

When you right-click on Windows explorer after selecting multiple files or folders, Windows presents a context menu which is different from ...

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