Do you often highlight words when reading posts? If yes, then you already know that it’s such a hassle to highlight the same words over and over again. For every page or post that you read, you need to manually highlight each word...
Have you ever run into the situation that you tried to delete icons (usually they are Internet Explorer icons linked to malicious websites or ads) on your desktop repeatedly but with no success in the end? Then you try to restart ...
There are a number of software packages that you can clear up a cluttered taskbar with. With some programs you can minimize windows to the system tray instead of the taskbar. Multi-Tabber is an application that also reduces the nu...
In Windows 7 MS Paint, you can choose from nine alternative brushes. However, you can also create custom brushes with alternative shapes in Windows 7. With Paint’s Transparent Selection tool you can create a variety of brushes. Fi...
You can add a multitude of effects to your photos and images with the freeware Paint.NET. Aside from the editing options included with the software, Paint.NET also has a variety of plug-ins that you can add to it. Among them is th...
When you enter text in the Firefox address bar, the browser will display matches from bookmarks, open tabs and recently visited pages. As such, the address bar is also a search tool. You can refine your searches by entering symbol...
When reading posts and online articles, you will usually encounter words or sentences that you do not want to forget. So the best way to recall them is to highlight them. However, there’s really no option in your browser that woul...
Just like pimples and black heads, bad pixels can make you go nuts. In short, they won’t perform as expected. So instead of displaying the correct colors, these pixels would either be stuck in certain colors such as black, blue, r...
App lockers vary when it comes to their features and functions. For example, there are app lockers that let you lock your app using swipe gestures. There are also those that follow the traditional method of using PINs and password...
One of the limitations of Windows Explorer is that it only displays the contents of one folder. Consequently, you need to open multiple Windows Explorer windows to drag and drop, or move, files from one folder to another. However,...
The Windows Media Center includes an extras library with shortcuts to various Start menu games. However, the Windows Media Center doesn’t have any options to add additional software and Web app shortcuts to the extras libary. Neve...
There are a number clipboard manager utilities that you can copy multiple text items to. However, most of those only save the clipboard text for a minimal time period; and don’t include options to set up custom hotkeys to pa...
All browsers have a page reload option that you can select from. However, those options are usually limited to just the one page tab. However, with the ReloadAll Firefox add-on we can reload all open page tabs at once. You can add...
When browsing the web, you usually rely on your preferred search engines to do the search. Now, what if you want to conduct a search about a particular topic using different search engines and information portals? Is it possible f...
When you logged in to Gmail, Google Plus and other Google services, you usually see the Google bar on top of every page. It is where you can access various tools and options including the shortcuts menu. The shortcuts menu (also k...
