September 29th, 2011 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To
If you go to FanFiction.net and do a quick search, you’ll find that there are currently 6,415 stories written about Harry Potter that exceed 100,000 words in length. These aren’t official books by J.K. Rowling, of course, but fan fiction, where everyday folks write stories in character universes by established authors. Harry Potter is easily [...]
September 26th, 2011 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To, Reviews
When ripping a DVD, it’s often important to ensure the resulting video is a certain size. Hour-long television shows are often 350 MB, while movies are often double that, to allow the videos to fit onto a blank CD. When encoding videos for a portable device, such as a phone, iPod, iPad or PS3, on [...]
September 24th, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: How-To
If you compress sets of files often for carrying around on a USB flash drive or external drive, there is an easy way to create self-extracting files for free. BananaShrink allows you to create self-extracting files that do not use any specific file compression format. These self-extracting files also keep your sub-directory structure intact starting [...]
September 23rd, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: How-To, Reviews
There are many ways to encrypt your private files and information. Two ways we have discussed before are to use TrueCrypt (Windows and Linux) or BitLocker (Windows). If you want a less complicated method for encrypting your files, we have written about an open source tool allowing you to easily encrypt and decrypt files using [...]
September 21st, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: How-To
CCleaner is a free, useful tool that allows you to remove unused files from your system and clean your Internet history and cookies. It also has a fully featured registry cleaner. Instead of having to open the Internet Options dialog box to delete temporary internet files, internet history, and cookies, you can delete these items [...]
September 19th, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: How-To
Google Chrome has some special “about:” and “chrome://” pages that display information about memory usage, cached files, plug-ins, and more. However, these pages are not easily accessible. To access them, you have to remember certain “about:” and “chrome://” strings and enter them in the omni bar. There is an extension, called ChromeAccess, that makes accessing [...]
September 17th, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: How-To
We have previously written about backing up bookmarks in Firefox in our posts, Backup Firefox and Thunderbird Profiles and Backup and Recover Bookmarks in Mozilla Firefox. We found a free program, called Bookmarks Backup, that allows you to backup and restore your bookmarks for five of the more popular web browsers, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, [...]
September 14th, 2011 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To, Reviews
Ever since people have been able to make money through selling website advertising, there have been people wanting to block that advertising. Web ads can be annoying, intrusive, resource hogs, and more. One of the most popular extensions for web browsers is called AdBlock Plus, and it gets rid of a huge percentage of those [...]
September 11th, 2011 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To
It seems that for every eBook reader, there is a different format. Some use ePUB, some use Mobi, others use PDB, while others prefer PDF or some other format. All this ends up meaning that if you have an eBook in a particular format, you might not be able to use it on your device, [...]
September 9th, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: How-To
Do you work with people in other time zones? Or, do you have relatives living in other time zones with whom you communicate often? If you spend a lot of time on your computer, you can easily add two additional time zones to the clock display in Windows 7 and Vista. To add additional time [...]
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