If you’ve work with measurements, you probably know how tedious it is to convert from one system of measure to another. Inches to centimeters. Liters to quarts. Celsius to Fahrenheit. These sure gave me a headache back in school.
So until now, working on the web, I encounter different units of measurement (especially when researching [...]

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If you’ve browsed you computer with hidden and system files showing, you may have encountered this peculiar file named Thumbs.db especially in folder filled with media like videos and pictures. Don’t worry it’s just your thumbnails cached by the system. It’s not a virus but they’re all over your computer.
Maybe you’ve also experienced changing [...]

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Backups. Backups. Backups. Can’t say more about the importance. But if you’re a busy worker, backups can be an added chore. So why not schedule them?
Cobian Backup is a backup utility that backs up copies of certain files and directories from one location to another location (another drive or even a shared location [...]

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It has been a while since the PDF has been the de facto standard for secure
electronic copies of documents. To whom does the world owe the technology? Well to Adobe no less.
It’s easy to chew out why PDF. It’s open format, works on different platforms, secure (with different restrictions), accessible… Bottom line is PDF [...]

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Tinkering with your computer can be a pretty engaging task. It’s always a good thing to keep your files organized and reduce desktop and directory clutter. However, a lapse in deletion or moving or copying of files can lead to very serious problems. A misplaced system file for example, can easily crash Windows.
Or maybe [...]

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Now here’s another neat freeware. For you iPod addicts that carry all sorts of music and video with you everywhere, how about putting in downloaded vids from YouTube in that little thingamajig?
IPOD Video Converter for Free converts a long list of video formats into the iPod video format. So you can just get just [...]

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This add-on has been around for a long time now, I just keep forgetting to write about it. If you’re like me who has a habit of listening to music while browsing the web.
Sure players such as Winamp can be set as an always-on-top toolbar or Windows Media Player automatically shrinks into your Taskbar. [...]

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One behavior that you might notice when typing something on the Google search field is that it pops out suggestions from your previous searches. Clearing your history is a good privacy and security measure. Especially when you search all sorts of “stuff” on the family computer. You don’t want your kid brother to come [...]

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If you have a multi-boot setup on XP like you have several Windows versions and Linux boot partitions, in which case, you might not need this tip), you might want to know how to access the boot options in Windows XP.
By default XP should display boot choices during startup. Sometimes, Windows just doesn’t (I [...]

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While I love Firefox’s stability, I’m not too keen about the environment it works in, especially when it’s running on Windows. Anything can happen on a Windows machine - crashes, corruption, failure and worst, unrecoverable data crashes.
This means that everything you’ve been tweaking and fine-tuning, including Firefox will be gone. Unless, of course, you [...]

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Perhaps one of the more overlooked functions of Windows users is the Safe Mode. The Safe Mode is Windows’ diagnostic mode that loads Windows barebones sans the different startup sequences as those found in your normal boot sequence. Hence, it only loads the essential drivers like those for the keyboard, mouse and VGA adapters. [...]

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I love automated generators on the web. They save so much time and they’re so easy to use. And you get results in an instant. Compare doing the same from scratch and it’s already minutes saved.
Here’s one generator that you might find interesting, the Smiley Generator. It’s a simple web-based tool that generates captioned [...]

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I’ve been featuring a lot of add-ons lately with some toolbars like StumbleUpon, Web Developer, and Download Statusbar, all of which tend to take up some browser space.
For those a bit conscious about your browsing space, you might want to trim down on some of the other things on your screen. Ever since I’ve [...]

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If you’re a mouser then you might have explored much of the right-click menu to know that there’s a ‘Send To’ menu. It’s basically a sub-option that lets you “send” a file to a preset destination (to My Documents, covert it to ZIP, a removable drive…). Now if you happen to have some favorite [...]

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Ever had a problem with forums, boards, and even blog entry interfaces that have too small a text input area to type on? I have a habit of posting long-ish comments, so to me, it does. How about another add-on that lets you do just that. Here you go - Resizable Textarea.
Yet another simple [...]

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