How To Convert Any Windows Program to Run on a U3 Drive

That would really help." Or am I the only one that still uses the word ‘drat’? Best of all, it’s free for personal use! So it’s a steal at any price. For this tutorial, I’m going to try convertingSysinternal’s autoruns.exeto a U3P system. it’s possible for you to thank me later for not doing that. The first step is to follow the ultra-simple instructions on PackageFactory’s interface. Applications that have such a blatantly easy to use and follow interface are wonderful....

April 20, 2009 · 2 min · 257 words · Deborah Raymond

Ever Wanted To Measure Your Bandwidth Usage? (Windows)

Well we can use this simple bandwidth monitoring toolcalled Networx. So in addition to all the pretty graphs and charts we also get better control over our connection. Networx has a installer and a portable edition. I used the portable 767kb file and ran it. You will see a system tray icon appear like the one in the above picture. you’re able to start, stop, reset counters, copy .to clipboard or save to file....

April 18, 2009 · 1 min · 167 words · Darren Buck

Batch Rename Your Files Easily(Mac Only)

Related “What’s in the name?” But if Shakespeare were born in this modern era, he might rethink the statement carefully. “Summer Holiday 2007 - 01.jpg” would make a better sense for us compared to “c0081503_8445631.jpg”. And I bet modern-age Romeo would cram his Mac hard drive with lots of files with non-sensible names. Use a free batch-renaming program calledNameChangerfrom MRRSoftware. This app does only one thing, but does it good....

April 15, 2009 · 1 min · 181 words · Audrey Green

How To Get Better Monitor Lighting That Feels Good To Your Eyes

Yes, all of us have experienced it at some point or another. So what do you do then? There’s definitely got to be a better way to automate this. And surely there is - “F.lux”. The natural lighting (due to the sun) has a cooler feel to it than artificial lighting. The display gets warmer during night time and cooler during day time. Odd you would think? Shouldn’t it be the other way round?...

April 14, 2009 · 2 min · 226 words · Laura Smith

Simple Ways To Organize Your Files In Mac

Problems arise when you have to decide where to put files from Project X that are also a MP3. And most of the time, it is far more complicated than that. you might also create a smart folder by doing a search in the Finder window. But doing the tagging one file or folder at a time is a tedious and time-consuming activity. Not to mention boring. The simpler way is by usingTagIt....

April 14, 2009 · 1 min · 114 words · Kristen Ramirez

How To Find Unprotected Website Directories & Get "Interesting" Files

Here’s what a typical unprotected directory looks like : Directories like these will have all kinds of files. Things like pictures, music, video files, documents, you name it. But to do that sort of search is both time consuming and a bit mind numbing. But don’t you want to be selective? Don’t you want to look for something in particular? You get the idea. Again, you might alter the file formats to suit yourself....

April 13, 2009 · 2 min · 222 words · David Christian

How To Use SpeedFan to Remotely Monitor Computer Health

The environment they work in is rife with dust and dirt and, of course, oil. While looking for a solution to the problem, I came acrossSpeedFanfrom the awesomely altruistic Alfredo Milani Comparetti. I saw it on MakeUseOf, over atMonitor your system Fan Speed With SpeedFan. That article covers all the neat stuff, like adjusting fan speed, graphing temperatures and so on. SpeedFan can also be set to popup a message, execute a program or script, or beep....

April 10, 2009 · 2 min · 269 words · Julia Evans

Hallucinogenic Desktop Themes & Screensavers

It would have been annoying if it wasn’t so funny. However, hypnotic and trance-inducing screensavers have always fascinated me. The answer is simple - mental foreplay. moments which Ramachandran describes as “visual foreplay before the final climax of object recognition.” Drempels - A Screensaver and Desktop Theme in One Drempelsis one of the most popular mesmerizing screensavers available. Currently Drempels is only offered for Windows, and keep in mind that you’ll need DirectX 5....

April 9, 2009 · 1 min · 202 words · Jessica Nolan

How To Use Special Effects on Images in Google Picasa

Related Hi there. Post 4 of 5. We were inEdit View, and had worked our way through theBasic FixesandTuningtabs. Now we need to take a look at the third tab,Effects. The other two tabs focused on fixing things. Making corrections and adjustments. Now we mostly want to have some fun. Find an image, grab a coffee, change toEdit View, and click theEffectstab. Sharpen Most of these tools work in a similar way....

April 8, 2009 · 3 min · 431 words · Tiffany Obrien

How To Set Up Remote Computer Access With Your Mobile Phone

Of course, back then there were no such things as Internet-enabled Windows Mobile devices. In fact, at the time the Internet itself was only in its infancy. Not the least of which is connecting and controlling your computerfrom anywhere in the world. Today, it’s not only a reality, but it’s completely free. Dave previously wrote abouthow to remotely control your mobile machine with your desktop. There are a lot of reasons why that would be useful....

April 2, 2009 · 2 min · 276 words · Ronald Stevenson

Noggin + Babysmash = One Happy Baby! (Windows)

In a nut shell Babysmash locks the screen and lets little ones punch in and move the mouse. They are greeted by sounds and images. This lets whatever is on the desktop show through. I started with using pictures of my daughter and she went on happily clicking away staring at herself. you could find the option within the tweaks page - the second option from the bottom. While using Babysmash and having it read the letters and numbers you are typing is pretty cool....

April 1, 2009 · 1 min · 207 words · Lisa Wilson

ChkFlsh checks your Flash Drives on Windows

Related Do you have a flash drive that is a little bit iffy? Are you worried that your flash drive might be failing? It will check your Flash Drive for bad blocks or in errors in reading and writing to it. Why would you want to do this? If you run just ChkFlsh.exe you will only see flash drives. This full test will destroy the data on your drive hence the files name DANGER!...

March 29, 2009 · 1 min · 123 words · Jennifer Short

Copy Multiple Files On Your Computer With RichCopy (Windows)

What’s going on here? Well to be honest they do have some awesome tools and Rich Copy happens to be one of them. Then we read here that RichCopy was actually being released on Sunday! it’s possible for you to grab the tool fromhere. Let’s get down to the nitty gritty - why would you want to run RichCopy? There are several reasons why you may want to use RichCopy for file copying operations on your Windows computer....

March 27, 2009 · 2 min · 233 words · Jason Dunn