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Want to write code at phenomenal speed but can’t code and can’t type fast? Hacker Typer is a sure-fire tool with which to impress your friends. Hacker Typer is an online tool that lets you customize your hacking environment and then, as you press random keys, types out code—making you look like an underground genius:

Hacker Typer

This article was written by Windows Guides (Source)… [Read More...]

Last week our colleagues in the UK launched The Collection, a hand-picked group of best-in-class Windows 7 PCs. The Collection is a way for customers in the UK to find the perfect PC, regardless of what they love to do or how much they’re looking to spend. There’s a great online tool to help you choose at The Collection’s homepage (we have a similar tool here in the US, called Windows PC Scout, that’s an interactive and fun way to find your next PC), and if you’re in the UK, you’ll be able to find Collection PCs at PC World, … [Read More...]

While Windows updates can be a pain and dealing with issues can be even more painful, Windows updates are essential to running a secure and reliable PC. Due to the vast popularity of Windows, there are many people trying to find vulnerabilities all the time. When you purchase your copy of Windows, you’re not just getting what’s stored on the disc or OEM PC you just purchased; you’re signed up for many years of support from Microsoft via Windows Update.

To make the most of these updates, you should install them when available. We’ve looked at troubleshooting specific Windows Update … [Read More...]

Mom 2.0 has been a whirlwind so far and we are just getting started! We’ve spent all morning listening to what moms want and learned one thing in particular. They were blown away to find that you can watermark photos in blog posts easily in a few simple steps using Windows Live Writer.

For those who don’t know, Windows Live Writer is a free tool that allows bloggers to post to any blog platform they want such as WordPress and Blogger while being offline. You can be in the car, write your post, add in photos, and then publish once … [Read More...]

In the world of photography, Photoshop is the industry standard in post production work–capapble of doing nearly anything to any given photo. Though the rabbit hole is extremely deep, there are a few simple steps you can take to spruce up your images quickly and efficiently. 

Make Images Pop

One of the simplest ways to add a little razzle-dazzle to darkened images is to lighten an image and then sharpen in. Click on Images >Adjustments > Levels and adjust the sliders until you like the result. When you’re finished, bring your image to life by selecting Filter > Sharpen > … [Read More...]

In this guest post, James Ricketts discusses how deal with computer uninstall errors. Find out more about James at the end of this post.

Uninstalling applications is never as seamless a process as installing them. Although Windows PCs come with a built-in utility, the Add or Remove Programs utility, that allows users to easily uninstall various applications and software, it usually fails to do the required job when you need to uninstall certain applications, such as McAfee Antivirus suite or DirectX.

Incomplete uninstallation may cause errors and complications on the system. Leftover processes of a previously installed program may interfere … [Read More...]

That full-size shovel in your toolshed is too big for a tactical backpack and too unwieldy for hand-to-hand combat: For those who spend time planting surveillance hardware, burying their secrets, or digging up someone else’s, a foldable entrenching tool is a must-have. Gerber’s new E-Tool With Pick boasts a powder-coated steel blade with serrated edge for cutting through roots or … um… limbs and a sharp spike for piercing ice, walls, and attackers’ skulls. A compact 9.3 x 6 inches when folded, it opens to nearly 2 feet long in seconds. And the fiberglass-filled nylon handle and … [Read More...]

In this guest post, James Ricketts discusses how to handle PC sound card problems. Find out more about James at the end of this post.

You just double-clicked your favorite song, turned the volume up, but guess what – there is no audio! You wait wondering what the cause could be, but still no luck. Your speaker simply refuses to produce any sound.

You frantically scan your sound file for a virus and the scan results show everything is clear. Your computer is new, so the cause cannot be a faulty sound card, or incorrect entries in the windows registry.… [Read More...]

Do you have several physical hard-drives on your computer, but would like to have them collaborating as one? This can be useful for smaller SSD-drives or similar.

A quick Note before we continue!
Spanned volumes are not RAID volumes and they are not fault tolerant. If one of the disks in the volume should fail, you lose the data on both disks. That being said, let’s continue…

Preparations

There are two ways to combine volumes into one: the Disk Management tool or the command line utility. Both methods require you to have Administrative privileges. You should also make a backup … [Read More...]

Getting attacked by virus and Trojans in itself is an annoying experience. And if you’ve been so lucky as to get one of those intruders that delete or turn off Windows features… I feel your pain. Even when the virus or Trojan are removed, users are still facing the possibility of spending many hours going through the registry and other tools to get everything back up and working. Most users would be forced to re-install Windows at this point.

Another solution might be this one:

Re-Enable v.2

Re-Enable is designed to be a one-click fix, to enable such features as:… [Read More...]

Inspired by a comment from one of our readers (Frogman) about a tool from the “good old” DOS days. He told us that he used to convert his batch-files into EXE-files using DOS commands. The good news is that this tool still exists inside your windows. Since then it has been updated with a Windows GUI (windows graphical user interface)

Doing a search on the net, you can find literally hundreds of freeware apps to do this conversion, but in this article I will only use the forgotten Windows Tool which is hidden in the System32 folder:

iEXPRESS 2.0

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Overview

Wondershare’s Video to iPod converter is a good video converter, with many useful tools and is straightforward in its use.

Installation

The install is very typical of OS X installs, with the .dmg having a shortcut to drag and drop the program for installation

On its first boot, you will be brought to the website for the user guide. You will also be asked to input your serial number if you have purchase the product. If you have not you may do so from this screen.

Features & Use

Video to iPod has some cool features. With the Trim … [Read More...]

Ever need to grab a file or two from your ext4 partition?  Maybe you’ve wanted to backup a few important files while you were in Windows.  Here’s how to browse your Linux partition from Windows using a tool called Ext2explore.

Most Linux distributions nowadays use the ext4 partition by default, and while there are some tools that can read the older ext2 and ext3 partitions, Ext2explore (also known as Ext2Read) is the only one that we’ve seen that is able to read all three.  In the spirit of Linux, it’s also open source.

You can download Ext2explore from the Ext2Read … [Read More...]

A friend called me and told me their laptop took “forever” to load. I asked them some basic questions to help determine the problem and put it down to too many applications loading at startup. Rather than instruct them to run msconfig, I thought I’d show them the Troubleshooting tools so they could run them again, themselves, in the future.

If you’re someone who assists others with their computer problems, this could be a great tool in your belt. Or if you’re having performance problems with Windows 7, you can use the Troubleshooting tools that come bundled with the operating … [Read More...]

When building, optimizing, or troubleshooting a computer, an adept hardware monitor is an extremely useful tool. HWMonitor allows you to keep track of all of your system’s important vital stats, and because it’s created by CPUID, creators of CPU-Z, HWMonitor has impeccable support for even the newest hardware. With its temperature monitors, it’s an ideal tool for any overclocker, and with its voltage monitors, energy-conscious underclockers will be happy, too. For those with HTPCs or other noise-critical systems, the fan-speed reports will help you identify the maximum fan speeds to keep your system as quiet as possible while still providing … [Read More...]