Most computer manufacturers don’t include Windows installation disks with their computers these days. Instead they give you a recovery DVD or put a hidden recovery partition on your hard drive. The trouble with these is they only give you one choice — to recover your computer back to the state it was in the day you purchased it.… Read More »
Microsoft’s free SyncToy originally appeared as part of the Windows XP PowerToys package. While most of the old XP PowerToys passed on to the big bit bucket in the sky, SyncToy has been improved quite a bit from the PowerToys days – it now comes in 32bit and 64bit flavors — so make sure you download the right… Read More »
We have Dropbox accounts, SpiderOak accounts and SugarSync accounts. And next week (rumor has it) Google will announce it’s own Dropbox clone with 5GB of free space — and we’ll probably get one of those too. Online storage is convenient, relatively safe (as long as your passwords are strong) and accessible from just about any connected device. You… Read More »
This tip was submitted to us by Marvin and it is a timely tip And it applies to all versions of Windows too! One of the most important Windows utilities is Task Manager. And there may be times, when you cannot access Task Manager in the usual ways (right-clicking on your taskbar selecting Task Manager from the menu).While… Read More »
This program isn’t a software witch that will fly around your neighborhood on a cyber-broom and cast spells on people you don’t like. If it were, I’d download this little application and cast a spell on my neighbor and make him dread his lawnmower. Maybe then he wouldn’t cut his grass six times a week and make me… Read More »
One way to describe Facebook is as the most extensive data set on human social behavior that ever was. Every month more than 845 million people record and share traces of their daily lives, relationships, and online activity through their friend connections, messages, photos, check-ins, and clicks. The richness of that information goes some way to explain why… Read More »