Oct 30
Last week I made mere mention of Portable Applications. Since then I have spent some time looking at the real deal. Looks like it is time to review some of the freeware offerings. Easy to complicated, there are many menu suites available today that integrate the applications you wish to carry with you on-the-go. In …
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Oct 27
I’ve accumulated a fair few bootable utilities over time; tools to help identify and clean malware from non-bootable systems, diagnostics tools, drive wipers, etc – I’ve also dabbled with various Linux distros. In the past I’ve always burned the downloaded ISO file to CD/DVD and booted each one from individual discs. So, the concept of …
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Oct 27
Wondershare is running a Halloween giveaway of its iSkysoft DVD Creator for Windows and iSkysoft DVD Creator for Mac. This terrific software would normally sell for $25.00usd and $49.00usd respectively but is now available free for everyone until 2nd November.
FOR WINDOWS:
iSkysoft DVD Creator for Windows is a great video burner application that helps …
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Oct 26
This is so neat! If only my wife would allow me to do something like this!
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Oct 26
Digiarty is running a Halloween giveaway of their outstanding WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe. This software would normally sell for $49.95usd but is available free to everyone from October 27th until November 6th.
WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe is your must-have for enjoying an unforgettable Halloween and the upcoming holiday season. Have numerous family videos …
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Oct 25
This article is a continuation of our in-depth Windows Home Server 2011 Dashboard series. The previous articles in this series are: Home tab, Users tab, Computers and Backup tab, and Server Folders and Hard Drives tab. If you haven’t been following along it is highly recommended that you read the previous articles.
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Oct 25
News has been spreading over the past few days about the imminent demise of the iconic Kodak photographic company. Kodak was founded in 1880 by George Eastman and for a long a time, to the average family snapper, Kodak was the name for cameras, associated consumables, peripherals and services. Obviously the advent of the digital …
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Oct 25
When Vista hit the market we were one of the first to provide instructions for backing up the OEM Vista activation files using the Activation Backup & Restore software. When Windows 7 was released we updated our article, How to do a clean install of Windows 7 without activation on your OEM computer. Many, including …
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Oct 21
First let’s be clear, this topic is assuming that we are using the Windows Operating system. Although there is a growing community of portable apps for other platforms, I would like to start with Windows apps. We welcome comments on ANY platform’s portable apps but please be clear of your comments platform, if it is …
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Oct 21
One of the killer features of WHS V1 was named Drive Extender. Drive extender technology allowed multiple drives to be added to a computer, but they were viewed by the OS as a pool of storage or one large drive. Drive extender also included the ability to automatically duplicate folders for redundancy through a feature …
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Oct 20
Winners have been drawn, thank you to everyone who entered, your support is much appreciated – And the winners are:
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Oct 19
The latest scam being utilized to propagate malware involves emails purporting to emanate from an official postal service. The emails include an attachment of course, and that is where the malware lurks. I was first notified of this latest scam just a couple of days ago by a very good friend who lives in Victoria, …
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Oct 18
Microsoft has recently completed its $8.5 billion purchase of Skype Global, the publisher of the very popular Skype voip software – yep, that’s not a misprint…$8.5 billion!
It certainly is a heck of a lot of money but I still consider it a judicious move by Microsoft; the Redmond giant has not merely purchased a …
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Oct 18
Digiarty have announced a major upgrade of their popular free DVD ripping software. Anyone who has had anything to do with Digiarty products will already be aware that their WinX range of DVD and video software are outstanding; easy to use, fast, and very effective. This new version of WinX DVD Ripper freeware (v5.0.0) includes …
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Oct 18
Cinemas will dim the lights prior to the commencement of a movie in order to help eliminate distractions and provide maximum contrast. Now, thanks to Turn Off the Lights, you can enjoy the ‘cinematic experience’ on the home PC while viewing videos on popular media sites such as YouTube, or while playing online games. Of …
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