Recent Posts By Lori Kaufman
Create Thumbnail Images from Your Pictures for Free
April 10th, 2012 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Reviews
Do you need to create thumbnails of a lot of images? You can open each image in an image editor and resize them manually. However, there is an easier and quicker method. Easy Thumbnails is a free program that allows you to quickly and easily create thumbnail images from multiple images at once. Download Easy [...]
Easily Secure Your Data Without Administrative Privileges Using SafeHouse Explorer – Part II
March 31st, 2012 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Featured Posts, Tools Review
Welcome to the second part of this two-part article about using SafeHouse Explorer to securely store and transport your important, private files. The first part of this article covered installing and running SafeHouse Explorer and creating your first SafeHouse volume. In this part, we discuss creating a portable version of SafeHouse Explorer you can carry [...]
Easily Secure Your Data Without Administrative Privileges Using SafeHouse Explorer – Part I
March 30th, 2012 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Featured Posts, Tools Review
We have previously written about creating and using a portable version of the free, open source encryption tool, TrueCrypt. This allows you to create encrypted file stores so you can securely carry around your data on USB flash drives. However, to use the portable version of TrueCrypt, you must have administrator privileges on the computer [...]
Show Multiple Time Zones on the Clock in Ubuntu 11.10
February 25th, 2012 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Linux Tips
We have previously shown you how to display the time for two time zones at once in Windows 7 and Vista. If you’re using Ubuntu 11.10, you can also view multiple times zones on the panel clock. To add time zones to the clock, click on the clock on the panel and select Time & [...]
Easily Tweak the Unity Desktop in Ubuntu 11.10 and 11.04
February 16th, 2012 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Linux Tips
The Unity desktop has never been easy to customize. You can customize some options using the Compiz Settings Manager, but there is no easy way to access all the settings for the Unity desktop. We found a program, called MyUnity, that allows you to customize every part of your Unity desktop, including the Launcher, the [...]
How to Install Shutter in Linux Mint 12
January 24th, 2012 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Linux Tips
Shutter is a very useful screenshot program for Linux. If you’ve used Shutter in another Linux distribution such as Ubuntu and was wondering if it would work in Linux Mint 12, the answer is yes. It’s also very easy to install. We will show you three ways of installing Shutter in Linux Mint 12. Using [...]
View Hidden Programs and Services in Startup Applications in Linux Mint 12
January 23rd, 2012 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Linux Tips
The list of programs in Startup Applications is very short in Linux Mint 12. These are programs that automatically start when you boot into the system. Most of the programs are now hidden by default. However, it is easy to show all the startup applications. You can view the Startup Applications by selecting Other | [...]
Change the Default Save Folder in a Windows 7 Library To a Custom Folder
January 22nd, 2012 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Windows 7
When you save a file in a program and you don’t manually change the folder, the file ends up in My Documents by default. What if you want most files to be saved to a different folder without having to navigate to it every time? We’ve written about how to change the default save location [...]
Switch Users in Windows Using a Shortcut
November 24th, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: How-To
Quickly switching among users is a very useful feature of Windows on multi-user computers. If another user needs to briefly use the computer and you are working on something in a program that you cannot close yet, that user can log on without disturbing your work. Your session remains active while the other user logs [...]
Save Clipboard Content Using a Free Tool in Windows
November 20th, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Reviews
We previously showed you how to save your clipboard content using a sidebar gadget in Windows. If you don’t like using gadgets, we have another option for a clipboard manager, called Clipboardic, which will also run in any version of Windows back to Windows 2000. Clipboardic does not have to be installed. Simply extract the [...]
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