Let’s just say that you want to write a quick Windows tutorial and you’re trying to highlight some important sections on your desktop or Windows home screen. If you go by the usual method, then you’ll need to take a screenshot of ...
Time tracking software and apps are a must especially if you want to gauge your performance in completing a specific task. However, not all time tracking software can provide you with the tools and features that you need. Speaking...
Let’s just say that you’re supposed to do your work and yet, you can’t help but get too distracted by the thought that you need to check your Twitter and Facebook. In reality, these things can wait but since everyone has the tende...
One of Firefox’s more novel options is that of Tab Groups. With Tab Groups you can organize the Firefox tabs into groups, and then switch between the groups of tabs. Consequently, Tab Groups reduces the number of tabs on you...
You never know when a Windows 7 malfunction might occur. If that happens, having a system repair disc could be handy. Then you can run the disc from Windows Boot Manager to select from a variety of alternative recovery options. To...
Like every browser, Firefox has a variety of keyboard shortcuts with which you can select the browser’s options with. However, Firefox doesn’t clearly list its keyboard shortcuts; nor does it include any customization options for ...
Google Chrome has a variety of keyboard shortcuts. However, Chrome does not include any options with which to add your own hot keys to the browser. Consequently, you should install Google Chrome’s Shortcut Manager extension to cus...
Not that many software packages include a batch resize option to covert images to exactly the same sizes with. However, if you require a batch resize option check out the FastStone Image Viewer software. One of its best options is...
Dual booting MacOS and Windows is super easy with BootCamp, but what about Linux? The answer is disappointing, with BootCamp you are not able to install Linux. Today I want to help you get a Linux distro running on your Mac. In th...
If you want to find out the type of font that is being used by a certain site or webpage, then you’ll need to manually look it up by inspecting the styles attributed to a particular webpage or web element. Of course, this sort of ...
To select and configure Google Chrome extensions, you would usually click Customize Google Chrome > Settings > Extensions. That opens the list of all the extensions added to the browser. However, it would be somewhat better ...
Did you know that there’s a quick and easy way for you to set multiple rotating wallpapers on your desktop? This may not work on all versions of Windows but if you’re using Windows 7 Professional, you can simply follow the guide b...
Virtual hard drives, or disks, are fake Windows 7 or 8 hard disks. With the VHD options, you can add a small, virtual hard disk to store specific software packages and files. You can create virtual hard disks in the .VHD format wh...
The Windows Vista Quick Launch bar, which can also be added to Windows 7, gives you a tool for quickly launching software. What it lacks are options to group and organize those shortcuts, and so the Quick Launch bar can get a litt...
The foremost browsers are Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari on the Mac OS X. Whilst they each have their own browser-specific keyboard shortcuts (hotkeys), you will find that the share a number of hotkeys...
When you switch to lower resolutions, Windows moves your desktop icons around. Then you might have to move and reorganise your desktop shortcut icons. However, with suitable software you can save and restore the icon layouts on Wi...
The Windows Task Manager is one of the more essential system tools which shows you what software is running, and with it you can close software even if it has frozen (or crashed). The Task Manager does not have a shortcut on the S...
Search engines like Google usually keeps a cached version of every web page or post that are available on their search index. Apparently, this feature can be quite handy especially if the pages that you used to visit are no longer...
The Disk Cleanup utility is one of the system tools included with Windows. To open the utility click the Start menu, select All Programs, Accessories and System Tool folders. However, with a registry tweak you can add a Disk Clean...
Those who usually enter a password to log in to Windows XP/Vista, 7 and 8 can bypass the log on (aka automatically login). Then nobody must enter a password to log in to your user account. To remove the Windows XP/Vista/7 and 8 lo...
When it comes to multitasking, there are lots of reliable social media management tools that you can use to simultaneously manage all of your social media accounts. Speaking of which, Feedient works in a similar fashion so let’s f...
Do you wish to delete your Google Plus account but you don’t know how? In this post, I will guide you through the steps that you need to do in order for you to permanently remove or deactivate your Google Plus profile. As yo...
Some browsers, such as Firefox, include bookmark tag options. Then you can find a bookmark by entering its tag. However, the Google Chrome browser doesn’t have any comparable tagging options. Nevertheless, you can still tag your G...
If you have an Excel spreadsheet with lots of data it might take a while to manually check through it for duplicated values. One way that you can quickly find duplicated cell values is with the Conditional Formatting option. When ...
Excel 2010/2013 has plenty of formatting options for spreadsheets. Among them are Excel conditional formatting options with which you can format spreadsheet cells based on their numerical values. You can add icons, based on a cond...
Let’s just say that you happen to find an interesting article. Unfortunately, you don’t have enough time to read it so you decided to bookmark it for later. The thing is, you’ve already saved tons of articles on ...
As you’ve probably spotted, there’s text under the Windows desktop shortcut icons. Whilst you can rename the shortcut icons, Windows doesn’t include an option that removes shortcut text. However, you can still re...
Those who often search for a group of files, or specific software packages, with the same keywords should save their searches. Then you can open saved searches instead of entering the keywords. You can save searches with Windows E...
When it comes to designing holiday cards, some might overlook MS Word 2010/2013. Desktop publishing software packages usually have the most extensive options for cards. However, you can also set up holiday cards with MS Word 2010/...
Flowcharts are planning tools that represent an algorithm or process. They are commonly used by software developers, and system analysts to design systems. MS Word 2010/2013 has a good variety of flowchart options. To set up a flo...
Over the past few years Google has been offering fonts for web developers to use on their sites. Google has a vast collection of beautiful fonts and all of them are free and open source (so to speak). Few people know that you can ...
The Windows Update shortcut is on the Windows 7 Start menu. You can click on that shortcut to check for Windows 7 updates. However, the shortcut cannot be pinned to the taskbar unless you edit its target properties. First, you sho...
To access website image options with the Firefox browser, right-click pictures to open the context menu. However, you can add an alternative hovering image toolbar to Firefox from which to select standard image options. The add-on...
The index in Windows keeps tracks of your files. The Windows Vista/7 search engine is completely integrated with the operating system, and most files are indexed by default. However, not all the file types are indexed. Consequentl...
The Windows desktop has an Alt + Tab shortcut which, when pressed, switches between open windows. You can also add a similar tab switcher to the Firefox browser with TabNavigator. That’s a Firefox add-on which adds desktop-s...
