How to add a “go up to parent folder” button in explorer for Windows...
If you’ve upgraded to Windows 7 or Vista, you may have noticed that Windows explorer no longer supports a "folder up" button that can...
How to acces folder options in Windows 7 and Vista, quickly and from any...
In Windows XP, users were able to access folder options quickly, via the tools menu in any open folder. In Windows 7, however, there’s...
Soluto: use the wisdom of the crowd to optimize your PC and make it...
Is your system too overloaded with apps? Does it take way too much time to boot up? Would you like a simple, uncomplicated software...
How to speed up WordPress: a case study
One of the issues that I have struggled with for a long time is the persistent slowness of this Wordpress site. This is something...
Partition Wizard Home Edition: excellent, free partition management utility
Partition Wizard is a free partition management utility that works on both 32bit and 64bit systems. It offers a wide range of functions, including...
DesktopOK: automatically save and restore your desktop icon positions with this tiny app
Do you have a lot of icons on your desktop? Are your icons carefully placed according to some sort of personal scheme or system?...
Nuance PDF Reader: free reader offers PDF form-filling and saving, online PDF-to-Doc conversions, and...
Nuance PDF Reader is a free PDF document reader and alternative to Adobe Acrobat Reader. It offers a number of nice features, such as...
VUE: mind mapping meets data visualization, semantic analysis, and presentation engine
VUE (Visual Understanding Environment) is a free, open source mind mapping and data visualization software developed by the Academic Technology group at Tufts University...
Ninite: One installer, multiple programs
OK so you’ve just reinstalled Windows for whatever reason (update, clean slate etc). Now you have to sit there for about an hour just...
My new year’s resolutions for 2010
First off I wanted to say to all my readers: may you all have a wondrous and prosperous new year.
As you can see, I...
Splayer: impressive, lightweight media player that packs quite a punch
SPlayer is a free, open source media player that is lightweight, well designed, and quite powerful.
It promises to play every conceivable media format (including...
PeerBlock: avoid detection when downloading from torrent or p2p networks
PeerBlock is an open source IP filtering application partially based on the PeerGuardian code. It is designed to prevent your computer from making undesirable...
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I have been looking into the question of which free antivirus is the best for almost 10 years now, and the only way to...
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Get cloud access to anything on your PC, with TackaCloud’s ‘Personal Cloud’
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