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Are Torrents Worth the Hassle?

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed.Recently a woman from London, UK was fined £16,000 [$32,000] for sharing software via a file-sharing network. By the letter of the law, she was found guilty and fined. Much like somebody caught speeding in a car, you do the crime then you [...]

Backup Your Computer Or Suffer a Data Grievance

Friday, July 4th, 2008

When was the last time you backed up your computer data? How many files and folders do you have on your computer? A rough guess will do. Personally I have over 85GB of data, music, Photoshop files and emails that I desperately would not want to lose.
Backing up your data files on Windows is a [...]

Windows Sysinternals Is a Useful Collection of Utilities

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

I came across this handy Microsoft [shock, horror!] utilities website recently and thought it was very handy indeed.

There are many handy tools available from checking your internal system clock, monitoring DLL files in real-time [that has been at the top of my list of things to monitor, sort of, well ok not really, but I [...]

Find Duplicate Files On Your Computer With Doublekiller

Friday, May 9th, 2008

How many duplicate files are clogging up space on your computer? I know on my computer I had 1.2GB of duplicate files. Yeah, that’s a hell of a lot! How did I find this out and how do I find duplicate files from my computer I hear you [probably] ask?

I found this really handy program [...]

Roll Up, Roll Up - Get Your Free Portable Software Here

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Do you use portable software? If not, why not? Portable software, or “portable apps” to the geeks and techno-heads [yes, like me], is a computer program that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any Windows computer. 
When your USB flash drive, portable hard drive, iPod or other portable device [...]

Another Handy Tool to Remove Malware

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Do you know exactly what Malware is? Wikipedia describes Malware as follows:
“Malware is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner’s informed consent. It is a portmanteau of the words malicious and software. The expression is a general term used by computer professionals to mean a variety of forms of hostile, [...]

Lots & Lots of Free Open Source Programs

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Do you want access to lots of free useful and more importantly, free Open Source programs? Below are some of the programs available. Some I have mentioned before. However there are quite a few that I haven’t, and even I have downloaded a few and found them very useful.
Below is a few in the two [...]

It’s Like a Real-Time Bouncer for Your Computer

Friday, March 28th, 2008

I recently came across a great little program that sits in the background, using little resources, monitoring what programs are running on your computer. You are given a lot of information about what is running on your computer and enables you to manage your start-ups, cookies, services and tasks quickly and easily.
Scotty [the icon for [...]

9 Free Open Source Alternatives: Part 2

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Here is part 2 of 9 Free Open Source Alternatives. The remaining five programs are listed below.
5 - PDF Creator - Alternative to: Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat was the defacto standard in PDF creation. Then, boom, along came quite a few open source PDF creation tools, and no longer have you to pay to create PDF [...]

9 Free Open Source Alternatives: Part 1

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Open source is what the Internet is all about. Programs that are openly available to all to add to, amend and improve on that are freely available to all to use. There are some great open source programs that do the same [if not better] job of some paid for programs. Below is a list [...]

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