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Monday, July 14th, 2008From Download Squad:If you’re like us, your hard drive is anything but tidy. That’s because
us power users can’t be bothered to keep things organized - there are
just too many awesome things out there to download, extract, and forget
about because half of them turn out to be garbage.
FlexTK for Windows
helps make short work of cleaning up [...]
Windows Inspection Tool Set
Monday, July 7th, 2008Windows Inspection Tool Set is an open source utility that provides you with a series of tools for inspecting your Windows operating system. This includes information about your processor, BIOS, or RAM usage, how many processes you’re running, or how long it’s been since your last reboot.
WiTS also includes a task manager, a security manager [...]
Monitor your hard drive usage in Windows
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 From Shell Extension City
DriveSpacio is a free Windows utility for examinging hard drive usage. When you first boot the program you’ll get a list of each hard drive and partition on your system, along with, some details like the files system, cluster size, and a pie chart or bar graph showing used and free [...]
AVG 8.0 Freeware released, with protection from spyware
Sunday, April 27th, 2008A few months ago, Grisoft updated its AVG anti-virus suite to version 8 and included linkscanning, anti-spyware, and anti-rootkit software to boot. Now the popular freeware equivalent of Grisoft’s anti-virus application is getting some of the same features.
AVG Free 8 is out, and not only does it protect your system from viruses, but you [...]
MySpace - You can checkout, but you can never leave
Saturday, April 26th, 2008Mathew Moran has problems cancelling his MySpace accounts
I’ve had two myspace profiles for awhile - one as an individual and one as a band. Recently, for various reasons, I decided to get rid of both. Getting rid of my personal was interesting because their instructions are incorrect. I would say this is an oversight but [...]
Password Safe - Secure and Simple Password Management
Saturday, April 19th, 2008Password Safe is a free Windows utility designed by Bruce Schneier that allows users to can keep their passwords securely encrypted on their computers. A single combination unlocks them all.
The reason for PasswordSafe is that most computer users have to keep track of dozens of passwords, network accounts, online services, premium web sites. Some [...]
Internet Explorer and Index.dat files
Thursday, April 17th, 2008Another one from Ghacks:
The usual way to ensure no one can track your surfing in Internet Explorer is to delete the Temporary Internet Files, cookies and history , right ? Wrong !!
Internet Explorer uses index.dat files to store information even though the information contained in those files are hardly needed (although, apparently, the auto complete [...]
Test Internet Explorer with Virtual PC Images
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008One way to check if your websites are compatible with Internet Explorer is to use a virtual pc edition. These require Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 which can be downloaded from the Microsoft homepage. Microsoft is offering virtual pc images of Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 on Windows XP and Windows Vista. All you need [...]
Windows Vista SP1 available on OEM site
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 Microsoft isn’t expected to officially release the official version of Windows Vista SP1 to end users until March. Microsoft has, however, already posted a disc image on its OEM partner site.
Warning: The disc image weighs in at 1.2GB and must be used to perform a clean install of Windows Vista SP1. In other words, [...]
newsflash - X-BOX DRM sucks
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008From CodingHorror
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