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.
This article told you how to set up a business card with a freeware software package. However, you can also set up a business card without any additional software at all! Makebadge is a web app with which you can design a business...
System services hog resources such as RAM. Sure, you can find a list of system services and programs that run at startup with MSCONFIG. However, that doesn’t make it entirely clear which of the services are most essential, w...
Jump Lists give us more direct access to documents and website pages in Windows 7. However, Windows 7 Jump Lists don’t include weather updates on them! Nevertheless, we can add a Jump List to Windows 7 that includes a weath...
Sure, you can always add clocks to the Windows Vista/7 desktops with gadgets. However, those clocks don’t usually have many customization options. As such, for a more customizable desktop clock check out Horloger. That’...
CCleaner is a system tool for Windows that many use to clean out their junk files with. It’s also a freeware utility package that you can add to Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1. However, you’ll find that there are stil...
Another article covered how to remap the keyboard keys. You can also remap the three mouse buttons with the X–Mouse Button Control application. With that you can customize mouse button actions in Windows and separate softwar...
By default, double-clicking the mouse button opens software and other shortcuts in Windows. However, you can open software, folders and files with a single-click instead. I’ll Click is a third-party app that you can switch t...
You can encrypt files with various password software packages. However, there aren’t many apps that add password options to the Windows context menu. Lazar Crypter is an open source package that does just that so you can add...
Windows Explorer doesn’t have any options that group and list all the file extensions within a selected folder. As such, you can’t group file extension categories to search folders by file types contained within them. ...
Along with Google and Yahoo, Amazon is one of the most established websites. Those who often browse Amazon might find the Select and search for Amazon add-on a handy addition to the Firefox browser. That adds an Amazon search shor...
OCR is Optical Character Recognition software. OCR packages extract text from images. As such, if you ever need to add text in an image to a word processor document you can extract it with OCR software instead of typing it out aga...
The Windows taskbar live preview shows you a small thumbnail of a taskbar icon’s window when you move the cursor over it. Neither Windows 7 nor 8 include options to customize the thumbnail previews. However, you can still customiz...
A business card can be a great way to provide potential new clients with your details. Business cards can include your name, business title and contact details. Although you can set up business cards with various desktop publishin...
To move everything in a subfolder to the root folder, you would usually drag and drop the subfolder’s content in Windows Explorer. However, with LevelZap you can move subfolder files more quickly. The software adds an option...
If you often add MP3s and home videos to DVD/CD, you’ll have lots of blank DVD/CD boxes without any covers. Adding a cover to their boxes will make it easier to identify the DVDs. DVD Slim Free is an ideal freeware software ...