How To Safely Complain About Your Boss or Job Online

Related Does your job drive you crazy? Do you want to get even with a former or existing employer? There is a better way to solve these issues than just to get fired. Release your job stress by using any of the following websites where complain about your boss or work place. Use these sites to warn prospective employees against joining the company. Or just share your experience with others and let them help you solve your problems....

January 19, 2009 · 2 min · 304 words · Jessica Smith

Make Microsoft Remote Desktop A Portable App

Related Microsoft Remote Desktopis one of those great day-to-day tools that I use quite often. To make Remote Desktop a portable app, you will need to copy four files from your Windows system. Two of them,mstc.exe and mstscax.dllare located in theC:\WINDOWS\system32directory. If your language is English and you are in the USA, they will be located inC:\WINDOWS\system32\en-us. When you copy the files to your drive, you will want to replicate this structure....

January 17, 2009 · 1 min · 137 words · David Munoz

A Free Portable Alternative To Windows Task Scheduler

Freebyte Task Scheduler is a simple portable 219KB download, with no installation required (Windows only). You might be asking yourself why you would want to replace something that you never use? Just open up this program by double clicking on it. you’re able to see your other options here as well. After pressing the “add” button you will see the Task Setup screen as show below. Here is where you tell FreeByte what you want it to run and when....

January 14, 2009 · 1 min · 122 words · James Davila

How To Create Flickr Slideshows

They like them, but they can’t be bothered. What they want is a no-effort option that looks nice. My father was a member of the inner circle. Flickris the most likely place to have your images, so let’s start there. and see how to create Flickr slideshows. And hey, you’re here already, right? you’re free to, if you wish, create a slideshow of your entire photostream. Unless you have a severely limited stream of images though, this isn’t the best of plans....

January 11, 2009 · 2 min · 339 words · Laura Reilly

How To Create An Unattended Windows XP Disk

All of the effort takes place in creating the unattended disk, but it is well worth it. To create an unattended disk, you will of course need a Windows XP installation disk. You will also need to downloadnLite.nLite is a free program that allows you to create customized XP installation disks. Which updates you will need depends on how old your installation disk is. Launch nLite, select your language, and clickNext....

January 10, 2009 · 2 min · 341 words · Carmen Hansen

ToddlerKeys Makes Your Windows Computer Baby Friendly!

I downloaded the tiny 481KB ToddlerKeys executable from here. you’re able to then look for the TK icon in your system tray. Right choose it and choose Manage Pictures and Sounds… Then I thought about how I secretly wished I could change the sounds and icons from BabySmash. Now with ToddlerKeys I can customize what my baby is seeing and hearing. The letter K brings up a picture of my daughter and says the words that she says....

January 10, 2009 · 1 min · 122 words · Jacob Miles

Stop & Delete Spyware With Malwarebytes for Windows

Related By now, the threat of spyware has become as prevalent as that of viruses. Consequently, there are a ton ofspyware removal programsout there. Why should you choose one program to delete spyware over the other? Well there are a few reasons, but generally it comes down to features and greater protection. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malwareis a good example of the latter. Now I’m considering adding Malwarebytes to my list. The install is very quick because there really aren’t a lot of bells and whistles on the program....

January 8, 2009 · 2 min · 235 words · Paula Lewis

Map Your FTP Drive As A Local Drive with NetDrive (Windows)

I do a lot of FTP uploading and downloading during my day to day activities. I find myself using FTP clients that I have been hooked on for years and the command line. Why do I want my tasks to be difficult? Now you might have your FTP drive mapped as a local drive. And below I’ll show you how to map FTP drive as a local drive on Windows....

January 3, 2009 · 1 min · 191 words · James Henderson

Backup & Restore Your Internet Explorer Browser Settings

it’s possible for you to use a number of programs to backup your machine. Don’t look at me like that. Lot’s of people use Internet Explorer! The creatively namedInternet Explorer Backupcan befound here. It is a simple download and installation of a 966KB file. I love it when authors keep their distributable files under 1MB! It shows there is no unnecessary bloat. You select Backup and start the process. it’s possible for you to go any which way....

December 31, 2008 · 1 min · 188 words · Tracy Hughes

Anonymous Internet Surfing with Tor

So how does Tor work? Volunteers run Tor software to allow their computers to become Tor nodes. Tor nodes pass Internet traffic between each other securely and anonymously. When the traffic reaches the final destination, it does so through a normal Internet connection. For more detail on how Tor works, c’mon visit the Tor overview. Installing Tor is relatively simple. Visit the Tor documentation page to find out how to install Tor on your machine....

December 22, 2008 · 2 min · 256 words · John Weber

How To Use One Keyboard & Mouse For Two Computers (Windows)

Chances are if you have one computer in your household you havemore than onecomputer in your household. It’s just a fact. More and more homes have servers, media centers and multiple desktops/laptops. Some people useKVM’s to control multiple machines. These KVM’s are a simple switch that lets you switch control to another physically connected machine. A for the server, B for the desktop and C for your media center. This is OK but not the best setup....

December 17, 2008 · 2 min · 245 words · Tyler White

Bump Your Desktop Icons With Shock Desktop (Windows)

It still isn’t available but how about Shock Desktop? But long story short it is (was?) Shock Desktopcomes with most of the same functionality. (ensure you grab the ZIP - the executable archive did not work for me.) you could have a little fun with your desktop when you are bored. How long until our Windows GUI can do this? Are you guys in Redmond listening to me? Let’s check out our options....

December 13, 2008 · 1 min · 151 words · Michael Miller

Restore Deleted Files Easily With Recuva

So I figured it deserved its own write-up on MakeUseOf. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses! The more you delay, the less chance there is of recovering it. After using Recuva for a couple of days, I have ended up being very impressed with it. So here’s how the program works. 2.Recuva then starts sweeping the specified hard drive looking for files that are able to be restored....

December 7, 2008 · 2 min · 219 words · Joshua Copeland