Probably Windows 98 users remember that in the Start menu there was a possibility to see your recently open documents (as far as I remember, the list displayed the last 15 documents you opened). In Windows XP, this option is gone. Sometimes I found it useful, because I never remember the names I give to [...]
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11 Free Photo Editors At Your Choice
September 7, 2007 – 9:38 am
Not so many years ago, we had to excuse ourselves for the red eyes, vampire style, everybody had in their photos. Do you remember how we had to wait in front of a great cathedral, in order to take a photo without embarrassing tourist heads at the bottom? Photo editors were then expensive, so not [...]
How to Customize Your Pictures Folders in Windows
June 17, 2007 – 8:23 am
Since digital cameras became so affordable, almost everybody has a lot of digital memories to archive. If you are a Windows user, and you set your Windows Explorer view to Thumbnails, then you are familiar with photo folders displaying 4 pictures from inside, like in the following picture (I enlarged my thumbnails, and this is [...]
The World’s smallest Windows Vista PC
April 6, 2007 – 7:23 am
The global obsession of productivity anytime, anywhere has lead the OQO company to release model 02, world’s smallest Windows Vista operated computer. OQO model 02 provides a highly productive mobile computing experience for professional users: you can benefit from all the functions a normal laptop provides, without the impediment of size and weight. Besides, model [...]
How to convert your audio CDs to mp3 fast and free
February 23, 2007 – 3:14 pm
When it comes about music, we tend to prefer more and more the mp3 format. The main reason is convenience: mp3 files are detected as data files, thus allowing us to exploit at maximum the capacity of CDs. One CD can store up to 80 minutes of music, if written as such. This leaves more [...]
The unexpected solution to a sluggish PC problem
January 27, 2007 – 11:21 am
How many Windows XP users have experienced at least once an unexplainable slowing down of their computer? Maybe too many! What was the solution? Reinstalling the operating system. But in my case, this did not work.
Let me tell you the whole story: one year ago, I noticed that my system started to act very sluggish, [...]
World’s smallest desktop computer
January 25, 2007 – 6:19 pm
Did you ever think you’d go crazy because of all the wires coming out of your computer, and spreading all over the place? Well, then maybe you didn’t meet Jack PC, the fully managed computer that perfectly fits in your wall socket.
Integrated into a standard LAN jack, Jack PC is operating in a Server-Based-Computing environment. [...]
How to enlarge your thumbnails in Windows Explorer
January 10, 2007 – 4:28 pm
How many times does it happen to you to browse through your pictures using the thumbnails view in Windows Explorer, and wish they were a bit bigger?
This is a simple way to enlarge them as you wish:
1. Go to Start, Run
2. Type in the command box: regedit
3. Double click on HKEY_CURRENT_USER
4. Double click on Software
5. Double click on Microsoft
6. Double click [...]
My Favourite 10 Cheat Sheets
December 6, 2006 – 5:54 pm
For those of you who may not know, a cheat sheet is a page containing the most useful info about something (usually, cheat sheets are put together for most common software). Cheat sheets can save you a lot of time, so I decided to list here the ones that I’m using most and which could [...]
10 things you should do when your computer freezes or hangs up
October 24, 2006 – 2:16 pm
By: Pinky Mcbanon
You are in the middle of doing your work, suddenly you realized your computer hang up. But the problem is, you have not saved your work! Don’t panic! There is a solution for that! And you can surely save your file! Here’s how:
1. Click on “ctrl-alt-delete” keys. The windows task manager will then [...]
