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[10 Apr 2010 | No Comment | 2 views]

Did you know you can send SMS messages to cellphone via email? It is actually easier than you think…all you have to know is what email address you need to use in order to get the message to the right person.

Misc, Office/Desktop »

[8 Oct 2009 | One Comment | 8 views]

Fences is a program that helps you organize your desktop, and can hide your icons when they’re not in use. It’s FREE for personal use, so try it out today, and change how you use your desktop forever!

Misc, Office/Desktop »

[17 Mar 2009 | No Comment | 15 views]

Sometimes you need to know what hardware is in your computer so you can purchase the right parts to upgrade your system. In the old days you had to rip apart the computer case and pull out each part, write down the serial # and the model # before you could harvest the information needed to upgrade. These days we have programs like CPU-Z and GPU-Z that will tell you everything you need to know in seconds. These programs give you way more information that you would have ever gotten from the little stickers on the hardware and best of all, they are FREE!

Misc, Office/Desktop »

[12 Mar 2009 | No Comment | 18 views]

Create great panoramic pictures with this easy to use and free software. You’ll be amazed at how easy it is to stitch multiple pictures together to create stunning panoramic shots.

Office/Desktop, Web 2.0 »

[5 Mar 2009 | 2 Comments | 43 views]

authorSTREAM is a cool website that allows you to share your PowerPoint presentations on the Internet. You have the option to share your PowerPoint slideshows through blogs, websites, on YouTube and even via iPOD. What’s best is that it’s all FREE!

Audio/Video, Featured, Office/Desktop »

[1 Mar 2009 | No Comment | 21 views]
Jing (Screencast app from the makers of Camtasia Studio)

Jing allows you to capture video or still shots from your computer with no frills and annoying ads.

Misc, Office/Desktop »

[23 Feb 2009 | No Comment | 6 views]

We have all used Craigslist at one time or another and we all know how much information is available on that site, wouldn’t it be great if someone created a GUI (Graphic User Interface) to help us sort through all that information.

Office/Desktop »

[21 Nov 2008 | No Comment | 7 views]

Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer, with incredible small size, breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Foxit Reader supports Windows Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7.

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[4 Oct 2008 | No Comment | 0 views]

Have you ever wanted to try a new Operating System without actually installing it on your computer? Virtual Box can do that and more…you can try virtually any operating system, such as Vista, XP, Ubuntu, or any other Linux distribution.

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[5 Sep 2008 | No Comment | 8 views]

Hard disks are by far the slowest component in your computer. CPU and memory work much faster than hard disks because they do not have moving parts. Therefore fragmented disks often become a bottleneck of the system performance.  Besides causing slowdowns, fragmentation makes the disk drive heads move too much when reading files which leads to…