Being presented with a number of files, each version containing similar but slightly different text, and trying to understand the difference in content between them can be made simpler with a dedicated utility, such as WinMerge. As an example, imagine being presented with two lots text files and the dates are pretty similar but the [read more...]

Windows Boot Time Utility – measure your computer boot time. The current version of the free utility BootTimer, from Planetsoft.org, currently runs on Windows XP platforms and is a handy utility for getting a good understanding of your computers boot time (the time from BIOS start up to loading Windows). BootTime is a very small [read more...]

Disk space is a funny thing, no matter how big hard drives get we always managed to fill them up! If you are not quite sure where all your hard drive space has disappeared to there is a useful disk usage visualisation tool by the name of OverDisk, which was in beta at version 0.11a [read more...]

When travelling, you might be more concerned than usual over how much power is left in your laptop battery. With this in mind, a quick and handy visual tool is available, free for home use, from Matt Collinge – called Power Meter Plus. Currently up to version 1.6.1, Power Meter Plus, is a small utility [read more...]

Last year I wrote about a product from software company Acoolsoft called PPT2YouTube (see Convert PowerPoint to YouTube) which is a handy application utility for transferring PowerPoint based presentations to YouTube format. Acoolsoft have recently launched a new product called PPT to Video, which we will be taking a look at today. Two versions of [read more...]

I am currently in the process of migrating my websites into a new dedicated web server infrastructure, the upshot of which means moving a great deal of data around, quickly and safely. For this task I have turned to my old friend WS_FTP Professional from Ipswitch, currently up to version 12.2. WS_FTP Professional is a [read more...]

FileASSASSIN is a free utility (for non-commercial purposes), from Malwarebytes.org, which aims to set you free of those annoying “file in use” and “access is denied” messages when trying to delete a locked file on your computer. Although, good advice would be to find out why the file is locked before attempting to delete it [read more...]

If your digital audio collection is building up you might want to think about organising it before it gets out of hand. You can do this by ensuring the tags embedded in the audio files are correct. The tags tell various media players information such as the Title, Artist, Album, etc. If you rip in [read more...]