Touch Screen All-In-One Desktop Computers – What’s Available?
Tuesday, 23 February 2010 – | 2 Comments

In the pursuit of refreshing my technology I am looking for a new desktop computer, something space saving – hopefully even touch screen and all-in-one. Perhaps it’s a minimalism phase I might be going through …

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Utility: Comparing Differences And Merging File Content
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 – | No Comment

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 …

Measure Your Computer Boot Time
Monday, 8 March 2010 – | No Comment

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 …

Visualise Your Drive Space Usage
Thursday, 4 March 2010 – | No Comment

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 …

Keep A Visual Tab On Your Battery Life
Wednesday, 24 February 2010 – | No Comment

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, …

Convert Your PowerPoint Presentations To Video
Monday, 15 February 2010 – | One Comment

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 …

Mass Transferring Files With WS_FTP Professional
Wednesday, 3 February 2010 – | No Comment

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 …

Delete Locked Windows Files With A Handy Utility
Tuesday, 26 January 2010 – | No Comment
Delete Locked Windows Files With A Handy Utility

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 …

Organise The Audio Files On Your Computer
Sunday, 17 January 2010 – | No Comment

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 …