About MatthewA
Matthew is a freelancer who has produced a variety of software articles for sites such as Bright Hub and Captured Snapshot. He has an A - Level in ICT, at grade C, and is proficient with a number of software packages. Matthew also has a golf blog http://amateurgolfer.blogspot.com/.
Check out his book at http://battlesofthepacificwar.blogspot.co.uk/. Battles of the Pacific War 1941 -1945 recalls where, when and how the Pacific War was won and lost within the battlefields of the Pacific.
The Firefox browser loads Macromedia Flash and other content when you open a website page. However, with click-and-play settings selected browsers load placeholder images instead. Even though Firefox has an about:config click-to-p...
Images can take up quite a bit of disk space. As such, compressing images is good way to free up disk storage if you have lofts of saved pictures. With the freeware VJC you can compress the JPG image format. To add the software to...
You can view the source code of a website page in Firefox by right-clicking and selecting View Page Source. That opens the page source in a smaller window that you can minimize to taskbar. However, it would be better if the source...
Some YouTube videos might have great soundtracks, and you can convert them to MP3s without any extra software. The video2mp3 website includes a YouTube video to MP3 conversion tool. It’s one of the best YouTube to MP3 conver...
Windows has a user password page, but you can also add extra locks to your desktop or laptop with third-party software. The freeware security application Eusing Maze Lock is one that shows notable innovation. With Eusing Maze Lock...
Those who often use the MS Command Prompt can edit file attributes with it. For example, you can select attributes such as Hidden, Read-only and archiving for specific files by entering attribute switches in the Command Prompt. Th...
Previous articles have told you about how we can add sticky notes to website pages in Google Chrome and Opera. However, what about Firefox? There are actually a few Firefox extensions that you can add sticky notes to website pages...
Blogs are Web journals on various subjects of preference. DotTech is a website based on the WordPress blog template, but standard blogs have one column of chronological posts such as this one. Blogging can be more of a hobby, or b...
The more recent versions of Firefox don’t include the add-on bar, or statusbar, which Mozilla removed with the addition of the Australis theme. However, you can still restore the add-on bar with the The Addon Bar extension f...
One of the best ways to free up disk space without deleting anything is to compress files. This article covered how you can compress MP3s. You can also batch compress PDF documents with ORPALIS PDF Reducer Free. ORPALIS PDF Reduce...
PNG image files can take up quite a bit of hard disk space. One of the best ways to reduce their file storage is to compress them. You can both convert and compress PNG images with the freeware PNGGauntlet. This is the PNGGauntlet...
You can open previously visited pages from Google Chrome’s page history. However, that doesn’t include many options to filter the dates with. To filter history pages by more specific dates, add the History Calendar extension to Go...
Each of your drives in Windows have titles (or labels). However, you can add entirely new labels to the C drive and others. This is how you can do that with the MS Command Prompt. How to change the disk drive name or label in Wind...
Audio files can take up a few megabytes of disk space. So adding lots of them to your hard disk will hog quite a bit of storage space. However, with MP3 Quality Modifier we can reduce the bitrate of MP3s; and that will then reduce...
There are plenty of CD/DVD burner software packages that you can burn audio/picture files to writeable CD/DVD. However, few of those add shortcut options to the Windows Explorer context menu. To burn audio or pictures to CD/DVD di...