When you right-click a Windows file icon shortcut and select Properties, there is no Change Icon option with which you can switch to an alternative icon. Thus, Windows don’t have any native options to change file type icons in the...
Watermarks are faded background text or images that display behind the text in a document. Unlike MS Word OpenOffice’s word processor doesn’t have a specific watermark option. However, with the software’s page fo...
Ever since I switched to Mac seven years ago, I never thought about my computer getting infected with viruses. (Yes, I know Mac have viruses too — but not enough to care about, yet.) However, Windows’ longtime battle w...
The smartphone era won’t be over yet. That despite the arrival of wearable technology. I know that smartphones will just improve and be innovated and it won’t reach its peak anytime soon. Phone manufacturers will only ...
I am all for going retro and vintage finds. I find them geeky cute. We’ve seen a lot of retro or vintage style gadgets but Sony’s new 185TB Cassette Tape just beats everything. I admit I’m part of that generation...
Sometimes I still can’t believe we’ve already moved into our own home. The challenge now is to arrange the interiors and at least for the next ten years, pay the mortgage. It’s been five months since we’ve moved here but I haven’t...
If you think only Apple and Samsung have all the rights to make a smartphone that will make it big month after month, you’re wrong. There are other phone manufacturers out there although they don’t sell as much just like the top t...
If your grades are bad, the only thing to do is be honest enough to admit that you failed. You tell your parents and try again next time. Study hard. You don’t go hacking that school’s online report card system to show that you di...
I know that just like me, you’ve only been waiting for Apple to finally unveil the iWatch. The Cupertino company may have started the smartwatch trend with the iPod Nano turned into watch but we have yet to see a real iWatch...
Microsoft is still the top software company. No matter what you say about its Windows offerings, it’s the desktop operating system to beat. Windows XP has bid goodbye but Windows 7 and Windows 8 are still doing fine. And to ...
Samsung may be celebrating the success of the Galaxy S5 these days but it won’t be for long once the iPhone 6 is launched. Of course, the iPhone 6 is only for the die-hard Apple fans but you know how it will be for both Sams...
Nokia’s mobile division may be sold to Microsoft and the deal was recently finished but Nokia is still a single entity. From mobile phones to cars, Nokia is set to make a living by introducing a project related to cars. The projec...
The Samsung Galaxy S5 is one highly anticipated smartphone. And now that it’s here, the new Android flagship is quickly making waves in the phone arena. It now holds almost 1 percent of the whole Android market. That despite...
Ugly fishes no doubt, but who cares as long as they taste delicious.
Such natural beauty. We need to do the best we can to preserve nature.
What sorcery is this? Oh nothing, just something exclusive to tech support guys.
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There are a variety of third-party software packages with which you can add password to folders in Windows. However, you can also add a password to a folder without any additional software. You can instead set up a batch file that...
Have you ever wondered why you just can’t seem to focus on what you are writing? It’s like your mind is wandering off somewhere and you eventually lose your focus and concentration. Moreover, the tool that you are usin...
Whilst you can search your Google Chrome bookmarks from the Bookmark Manager, you can also open your bookmarked pages from its address bar. With the addition of a new search engine, you can search, and open, your Chrome bookmarks ...
Transparent windows were one of the great new additions to Windows Vista/7. You turn the transparency on or off by right-clicking the desktop, selecting Personalize and then Window Color and Appearance. There you click the Enable ...
Windows Vista has a gadget sidebar on the desktop which Microsoft removed from Windows 7. The sidebar effectively organized the gadgets along the side of the Vista desktop, and you can also add it to Windows 7 as well. No third-pa...
Windows thumbnail previews show what’s open within each of your software windows. As of yet thumbnail tab previews have not been incorporated into browser software. However, Firefox does have an add-on with which you can add...
MyBookmarks is a great add-on for the Firefox browser. It adds an alternative to Firefox’s bookmarks toolbar to the browser. When you’ve added MyBookmarks to Firefox, you can open your bookmarked sites from a bookmark ...
Firefox has various tab options, but you cannot add permanent tabs that always remain open on the browser. Well, actually you can! All that’s required is the PermaTabs Mod add-on for the Firefox browser which turns tabs of c...
Many of Google Chrome extensions add buttons to the top right of the browser. When selected, the buttons open the browser extensions. You can also add keyboard shortcuts to those extension buttons. Open the Google Chrome browser, ...
After details about a critical security bug affecting Internet Explorer 6 to 11 on Windows XP through 8.1 hit the web, it was inevitable that Microsoft would fix the issue and release a patch to keep everyone safe(er). And today M...
We already heard about how Internet Explorer is experiencing some issues these days; attackers are said to be exploiting a zero-vulnerability. There’s also another campaign that seems to be targeting the Flash media player by Adob...
Some AOL Mail accounts have been hacked last week. AOL is honest that it happened and is even telling customers to please change their passwords to be safe and sure. Security questions are also requested to be changed. Two percent...
I’ve used IRC, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, Skype, and iMessage over the past decade. Next to iMessage, there’s also WhatsApp and Viber that I often use. But for more professional online conversations, I trust and use only S...
I am amazed at how computer technology has advanced the past three decades. I am one of those fortunate ones able to use an 8-inch floppy disk to play Prince of Persia and many other retro games. I was still a child then but then ...
We know this already but sometimes people need proof that it really is the case. A recent customer satisfaction study by JD Powers showed that Apple is No. 1. Samsung follows close in the US market, at least, if we are to discuss ...
Today and many times in the past, I was brutally attacked by Windows Update. A client of mine was having an issue with a VB macro and, an hour into fixing the problem, the computer decided to automatically restart to apply a Windo...
Like the new Gmail feature that allows you to add email attachments to your Google Drive account? Wish you could automate it? Well, it turns out that you can! There’s a very simple script that you can connect to your Google ...
