Category: Software
How to Unblock Websites
Web sites are blocked due to certain filter or blocking software that is loaded onto your computer. In addition, large computer networks (networks at your workplace or school), a firewall is also installed and this is also used to block specific web sites. However, unblocking web sites can sometimes be a difficult task to achieve. [...]
Free Backup Software
Microsoft Windows now ships with an integrated free backup software which can be accessed by clicking <Start>, <Accessories>, <System Tools>, and <Backup>. Most Unix systems come with a plethora of backup software options, including dd, cpio, tar, and dump. If the free and basic backup software included with your OS does not meet your needs, [...]
Download Manager
A download manager is for downloading files, as what the World Wide Web is to the Internet. The world wide web is meant strictly to browse Internet pages and various information. Where as a download manager is strictly designed to download and sometimes, depending on the manager you use, even upload files to a server. [...]
How to connect to your new Mac OSX synergy server from Windows
Now that you have the synergy server running on your mac, you need to connect to it via the synergy application in Windows. If you didn’t do it in the earlier step, download synergy+ for Windows and install it. Next, open Synergy+ and select “Use another computer’s shared keyboard and mouse (client)” and type in [...]
Xfce 4.8 updates open source Linux desktop
The Xfce open source desktop is out with its first major update in two years this week. Xfce 4.8 brings the low-resource desktop into the modern era and provides usability improvements across the board. “Xfce 4.8 is our attempt to update the Xfce code base to all the new desktop frameworks that were introduced in [...]
Service Pack for Windows 7 May Be Drawing Near
A post to a Microsoft blog in Russia may have prematurely announced the availability of Windows 7′s first service pack. Microsoft says the claim is inaccurate. The awaited first service pack for Windows 7 may not be far away, according to a posting on a Russian Microsoft blog. Late last week, a Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) [...]
How to Use Windows XP “System Restore”
Basically, System Restore is like a little hound that runs behind the scenes taking “snapshots” of various parts of the Microsoft Windows XP operating system. So, if a part of Microsoft Windows XP stops working one day, the System Restore utility is able to reference one of the “snapshots” it took and restore your system [...]
7 Great Computer User Tips – For Windows® Users Only
An Easy Performance Enhancement If you’re using the NTFS filing protocol on your system, instead of FAT32, you can get a bit more speed by disabling Windows® Indexing. The downside to this is that searching your drive for a specific file might take a moment or two longer, but everything else should run faster. To [...]
What’s inside Microsoft’s Office 2010 Pro Plus?
Microsoft admitted in May — after word leaked via Twitter that the company was renaming its Groove online/offline synchronization capability to “SharePoint Workspace Manager” — that the newly minted SharePoint Workspace and OneNote would be part of the Office 2010 Pro Plus SKU. Company officials refused to say anything more about which other applications and [...]
ACT! Software Takes Customer and Contact Management to the Next Level
When it comes to software solutions that improve your productivity by enabling you to manage your contacts and customers, over the past 20 years ACT! has proven that is unparalleled. According to ACT consultants, the software allows users to track sales opportunities, manage everyday responsibilities, increase effective communication, and organize contacts. The newest version of [...]
Can USB Data Recovery Be Recovered?
When you store important information on a USB device, you take the chance of losing that information. Losing data on a USB can be kind of a mystery, but there are companies out there that can help you get that data back. These companies use engineering that can recover your lost data over ninety six [...]
Block websites on your computer
Broadband Internet connectivity is so common these days that almost no one has a second thought about connecting to the Internet. Connecting is easy, but what if you need to control or restrict the ways in which the Internet connection is to be used? Sure enough, widespread availability of unlimited, unmetered Internet connections has its [...]
Convert Document To PDF
Introduction There are several ways to create a PDF from a Microsoft Word document. PDF, or Portable Document Format, is used worldwide as a standard in publishing documents on the Internet. This article will briefly look at the origins and use of PDF and detail a document conversion solution that anyone can use. Background PDF [...]
What are proxy sites?
Proxy sites enable the individual to access websites and servers through another server to keep the location and identity of the individual unknown. This helps to limit the amount of spam, cookies, and other information from being gleaned or placed on the computer. This in turn helps to keep the computer running fast and efficiently. [...]
What is a torrent file and how does it work?
A torrent file is the file that is transferred among users using the torrent technology. The file extension used by torrent files is .torrent. Torrent files, when added into a torrent application, can be distributed among numerous amounts of people without the need of any major hardware costs and server fees on a particular individual. [...]
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