Entries from September 2008

30 September 2008

Organize Your DVD Collection With EMDB

EMDB is a handy piece of software to help you organize your DVD collection. Some features include a thumbnail preview feature, exporting, and a searching function.
Quick Stats:
Website:www.emdb.tk
Download:Snap Files

26 September 2008

Space Wallpaper

This is a wallpaper called ‘Space’.
It is available in the following screen resolutions: 640 by 480, 800 by 600, 1024 by 768 and 1600 by 1200.

Click here to download.

26 September 2008

How To: Erase Files

If you have data that you want to securely delete because you wish to keep the data private then you can use the below method.
Software Needed:
Heidi Eraser (Download at Publishers Website)
Please Be Aware:
Once you erase files you will not be able to recover them.Choose the files to erase wisely.
Steps:
1.Install Eraser
2.Right click on  the file which [...]

26 September 2008

How To: Install a Firefox Add-On

To install a Firefox Add-On follow the below steps:
1. Go to the website containing the Firefox Add-On, the Mozilla Add-On website contains many add-ons available for free.
2. Click on the button which says Add To Firefox (Mozilla Add-On website) other websites may have different text on the button.
3. (Skip to Step 4 if you are [...]

15 September 2008

Software Find: ItunesControl

ItunesControl allows you to control iTunes with your keyboard and displays song information. This is a handy program if you do not want to constantly go to the iTunes window to change a song.
Link: http://itunescontrol.com/

9 September 2008

Software Find: Taskbar Shuffle

With this program you can shuffle the windows you open within Microsoft Windows around and also close down a window using the scroll wheel button, much like what you can do within Firefox.
Link: http://www.freewebs.com/nerdcave/taskbarshuffle.htm

9 September 2008

My Top 5 Firefox Add Ons

1 Aging Tabs: This add on is great if you are a Firefox user that opens a lot of tabs.  Tabs fade away in colour if they are not being used.
Link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3542
2 DownThemAll: A download manager and accelerator that works within the Firefox browser.
Link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201
3 Flashblock: Some websites are full of flash video and you [...]

7 September 2008

Make Windows XP Faster

Here are a few ideas to make Windows XP run faster (note: it may be a good idea backup your data/information before changing anything on your system):
1. Uninstall unneeded programs.
2. Delete unneeded files from your hard disk.
3. Stop programs that you don’t need automatically running on start up.   Click Start > Run and type ‘msconfig’ [...]

4 September 2008

Google Chrome

Google’s new web browser is a plain type of browser which is quite fast at loading pages.   This browser is good if you are using the Firefox browser and a page does not load properly.
www.google.com/chrome