I love finding wallpapers. I love popping up with one to match new skins. I haunt wall sites and have several I check almost everyday. I also like Firefox (as many do....and also Opera) especially for this new extension I found. Everyone knows or should know about TinEye ( http://www.tineye.com/ ), a site you upload an image to and find it's location on the net. Well, now you won't have to do that. It's enough to right click on the Image and TinEye image search will appear...
More than 100,000 downloaded in the first week! Take a look, this is from TimsTechBlog: This is a great app for folks who enjoy Twitter, Flickr and Facebook. You can send photos to friends as well! Imagine you're on vacation and send beautiful photos from skiing or the beach! Maybe at a concert or a cool picture of carolers outside your door. Send Grandma and Grandpa pictures of the family if you can't spend the holidays together! They'll love it! E...
Viber Well, Skype has met Google Voice, and the result? A free iPhone app that makes voice calls....VOIP and the cost? Zero. It'll make calls to another iPhone that has Viber using the app and not your iPhone app. The hook? The receiving phone has to have Viber too. Otherwise, the call will be routhed through the iPhone app. If it goes through Viber, you use zero minutes. Now, that's limited, but say you're in a low reception area, it'll use Wi-Fi, and there's the perk of free international ...
Time for a tip: Head on over to Free Give Away of the Day for a great, useful tool for your PC! As Partition Magic alternative, EASEUS Partition Master Professional Edition is an ALL-IN-ONE partition solution and disk management utility. It allows you to extend partition, especially for system drive, settle low disk space problem, manage disk space easily on MBR and GUID partition table (GPT) disk under Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 (both 32 bit and 64 bit). The most popular...
At the request of a Community member (no, neither Jafo nor Zubaz), I'm doing a post about adding a spell checker to help while writing. Some but not all Windows apps have built-in spell checking of some sort. If you want to add spell checking to all of your apps (or a select group) let's look at tinySpell. Please note: There is a paid version of this software (tinySpell+) available as well for those who want extra functionality. The tinySpell I am posting about is the free version. T...
Merry Christmas folks. Just a quickie present this morning to help process those holiday photos .... on Give Away of the Day. It runs on XP, Vista and Seven, however while 32 bit system support is certain, it is not clear 64 bit is. Features: ( LINK ) I haven't downloaded nor run this software, but I have reviewed the comments on Free Giveaway of the Day, and one that caught my eye was that to register, you have to fill out a...
If you want really quick access to launch a frequently used application without putting extra icons on your desktop, you can add that application to the context menu for the desktop with a simple registry hack. Here’s how to do it for Windows 7. I don't have any other OS's to test this on. If you're afraid to edit your Windows Registry believe me, I understand. Just go to my response number 6 to get a nifty program to do this more easily. If you have problems, please pm...
The Microsoft Fix It Center is a resource I knew nothing about until I started poking around with this new job of mine. This site automates repairs which many lay people are afraid to attempt and quite frankly, are ignorant of including advanced trouble shooting techniques and the Windows registry. The latter is a daunting prospect (remember to always make a backup, and change things one at a time). In later posts I'll deal with System Utility software. Now, at this MS site,...
Here's Part One if you didn't see it. Beth Jones is a senior threat researcher with Sophos. She stated to PCWorld (another of Doc's faves), "The two-week mark before Christmas is when things start to ramp up out of control. Spammers and malware authors focus on when the attention is going to be there. That's generally two weeks before a holiday." You don't need to be shopping online to get caught in one of their traps. Even checking out email or spending time on Facebook and Twit...
Since we're getting down to the wire, I thought to add this little post about keeping your guard up. This holiday season, your joy in giving can turn into a disaster if you're not careful! TrendMicro has put together a slightly awkward, but still valuable reminder about how to beware and not fall prey to the Grinches and Blue Meanies who thrive off your naivete and desire to stretch your hard earned money. Please take a minute and check out the tips in this onli...
Free utility Disk Space Fan analyzes your hard drive usage to help you determine what's taking up space on your hard drive, representing it all with fancy visualization eye candy. Disk Space Fan is one of many disk visualization tools, from the classic WinDirStat to DriveSpacio, Disktective, and others. WinDirStat has always been excellent when it came time to visualize your hard drive usage and knock off space-wasting files, but it's not the most attractive tool in the toolbox. ...
We're all so blessed during the holiday season with the ability and SD software to customize our computers and make them special! There are many themes, gadgets and walls to be had. Just look at I.D.'s Articles and Posts Monday's Picks and This Week in Skinning, as well as the December Desktop thread and the Galleries! Today, I.D. added Cursors ! Well, I decided to contribute to this wonderful season, and I found some really beautiful Themes provided by Microsoft ...
We all hear the word Cloud every now and then but I am sure many of us aren’t exactly very sure about The Cloud and Cloud Computing . So first of all, it is important to understand, what is the cloud? Cloud is just a metaphor for internet, when we say cloud, we are just referring to internet only and simply the services we use using internet – through our web browsers. Our current model: You own your PC, laptop, phone, netbook, etc. and...
Whether you're upgrading or repairing your computer, at some point in time you'll be faced with the task of reinstalling your operating system, especially in the Windows world. As I can personally attest, most of the frustration with starting fresh comes from losing your installed programs and customized settings with them. Sure, you can create tweaked installation discs to automate the process and have all your drivers, programs and settings already in place. The problem is...
Microsoft’s Kinect has been awarded The National Parenting Center’s 2011 Seal of Approval recommending it for age 6 and up. The National Parenting Center was founded in July of 1989 with the intention of providing the most comprehensive and responsible parenting advice to parents everywhere. Unless you live in a cave it is pretty hard to avoid the crush of media coverage for Microsoft’s newest baby, the Kinect for Xbox. Hype can be a blessing or a c...