Software Description The following is a description of IObit Advanced SystemCare PRO 5, as per the developer: Like hiring your own PC technician inside your computer Advanced SystemCare PRO provides an always-on, automated, all-in...
Note: This freebie was originally posted about in Jan 2011. That particular promotion has ended. However, a new promotion for the same freebie is now available, so I have republished this article. Sorry to everyone that receives m...
Software Description The following is a description of DAZ Studio 4 Pro, as per the developer: SOFTWARE INNOVATION OF THE YEAR Voted “Software Innovation of the Year” by a panel of leaders in the 3D industry, the Genes...
Dropbox gives all users 2 GB of free storage. There are ways to increase this free storage to a maximum of 20 GB — such as referring friends, having a .EDU e-mail address, Dropquest, and Getting Started quests. Now there is ...
About:config in Firefox is an interesting place. Anyone with the proper knowledge can use about:config to make handy customizations to Firefox, such as forcing Firefox to display HTTP:// in the address bar. The key phrase in that ...
The speed of your Internet connection largely depends on external factors you cannot control. However, sometimes there are software elements that influence your connection speed. Once such factor is Windows reserving 20% of your n...
Software Description The following is a description of Picture Collage Maker, as per the developer: Picture Collage Maker allows you to create photo collages from your digital images. You can choose from a variety of template layo...
After conquering the mobile world, last May Angry Birds was made available to traditional computers through an online version freely available via any Internet browser. Zepto Labs, the mind behind another iOS and Android mega-hit ...
It has been highly anticipated for a long time and it is finally here: Untethered jailbreak for Apple’s A5 devices, iPhone 4S and iPad 2. Yes, that is untethered; as Locutus explained earlier, untethered jailbreak is the goo...
Update: Looks like this is for USA and Canada only. Sorry people from other countries! Software Description The following is a description of Acronis True Image Personal 2010, as per DownloadCrew: Photos, music, documents, emails ...
Android 4.0, recently made available for the Galaxy Nexus, the Nexus S, and a few other devices, is Google’s answer to the criticisms that Android has previously fetched. It features a new visual style, better user experienc...
Software Description The following is a description of JetClean PRO, as per the developer: One-click Clean and Tune-up. Cleans junk files and unneeded registry entries to improve the performance of your PC by one simple click. Lig...
I first learned about the joys of Alt+Ctrl+Del while watching my otherwise computer illiterate dad restart a frozen Windows 98 desktop. Ever since then I have been relying on Alt+Ctrl+Del to bring up Windows Task Manager, which al...
Often times you may find yourself in a position where you are using two or more Excel spreadsheets at the same time. You can, of course, use Alt + Tab to continually switch between the spreadsheets, or use Microsoft’s build-...
Software Description The following is a description of O&O AutoBackup, as per the developer: O&O AutoBackup automatically synchronizes selected files and folders with an external backup device (USB Stick, external USB hard...
VirusTotal is an awesome website. If you don’t know about it already, you have been missing out on life — VirusTotal allows users to scan a file with 40+ anti-virus/anti-malware engines. VirusTotal recently introduced ...
Nowadays more and more programs are coming in installer and portable versions, allowing users to select which version they want to use. However, still there are many programs that are available in installer form only. This is wher...
Software Description The following is a description of East-Tec Eraser 2011, as per how Ashraf has described it in the past: […]East-Tec Eraser is a program that allows you to securely delete files, data and user activity fr...
Lately I have been posting a few articles here and there on short tips and/or tricks, such as opening links in new tabs with the scroll wheel. A dotTechie, Damon, came up with a great idea: Why not have dotTechies share their favo...
Software Description The following is a description of MAGIX PC Check & Tuning 2011, as per the developer: PC Check The PC Check analyzes weaknesses and problems in the system and lists them. Short problem descriptions may be ...
Software Description The following is a description of BDLot Blu-ray Ripper, as per the developer: Create Your Own Perfect Blu-ray Movie Collection on PC BDlot Blu-ray Ripper is a pro-level Blu-ray decrypting and copy tool for use...
Live in the USA, want some Galaxy Nexus goodness, but don’t want/are not on Verizon? Ads running on CNET – which have since been pulled, by the way – today revealed Galaxy Nexus will be coming to the Now Network ...
Each year DonationCoder, a website that promotes freeware/donationware software, holds a NANY (New Apps for the New Year) event where software developers from all around the world publish new freeware/donationware programs. NANY 2...
Software Description The following is a description of Auslogics Registry Defrag, as per the developer: An essential tool for keeping your registry defragmented. It will improve your computer performance by reducing the amount of ...
I have been doing this for a long time now but it occurred to me some people may not know this nifty trick. Often times when I browse the web I come across multiple links that I want to follow. Since I can’t view multiple li...
QR codes (Quick Response codes) are handy for transmitting large amounts of data in a small box that can be easily scanned and read by most all smartphones. (See this article for the best free QR code scanner for Android.) If you ...
Remember SOPA and PIPA? Well it looks like Spain is getting in on the action, too. Yesterday the Spanish Government passed new legislation – dubbed Sinde Law after former Spanish culture minister Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde ̵...
We all know and love Dropbox. Indeed Dropbox, with its free 2-20 GB of storage space and cross-platform and multi-device support, is hard to beat — except when it comes to purchasing storage space. Insync is a new file sync ...
With the Kindle Fire, Amazon introduced their Silk browser, a browser that utilizes the power of cloud technology to make web surfing faster. Officially Silk is only available on the Kindle Fire; but it was only a matter of time u...
Have you ever looked at the YouTube interface and thought, “this could use a face lift”? Or perhaps you thought, “a download link and some fancy drop shadows would be nice”. Well, then, let me introduce you...
It is happened to the best of us: we load up the computer to visit our favorite website and instead of being greeted with the familiar homepage, we get a 404 or connection error message. Before the withdrawal symptoms set in, it i...
During the summer I proclaimed Stickies to be one of the best sticky note application out there; and the praise for Stickies is well deserved considering how feature filled and easy to use it is (I especially like the ability of S...
Unicode is a beauty. With over a 100,000 characters to its name, Unicode not only enables use of non-Latin character languages but it also enables users to use special characters and symbols like, say, a snowman. The problem is ma...
It has been long time since I posted part 1 in the registry hacks series, and I hope you read it 10 times like you were suppose to. After much thought I’ve decided that I’ll continue the posts on registry hacks by talking about th...
Anyone that has used Ice Cream Sandwich’s new UI in all its glory can attest to how awesomely awesome Google’s new “Holo” theme is. It is obvious Google thinks its new Holo is awesome because they have anno...