Many times, our new displays come with the colors not quite adjusted properly. Luckily, Windows has a built-in display calibration tool which can come in quite handy. How to calibrate your display color, gamma, brightness and cont...
It’s quite common for anyone who has web surfing experience to have come across a certain type of webpage virus, namely the Script Virus. A Script Virus usually comes from webpage advertisements and is therefore wide-spread. Have...
Color gradients are a mixture of colors that are often incorporated into website page and document backgrounds. They are not something that you can readily copy and paste from the clipboard into a document or HTML page. However, w...
If you collect something, it might be handy to keep a record of the items in your collection. You could set up a database, but the applications don’t have options to add photos to records. To set up a collection catalog with...
You can move the mouse cursor with the numeric keypad keys, as covered in this article. However, Windows doesn’t have any options to customize the keys. A third-party app will do the trick, and you can set up custom keys to ...
Previous articles have covered how you can select Firefox and Opera options with specific mouse movements. You can also select options in Windows much the same with the StrokesPlus. That’s a freeware mouse gesture applicatio...
With all of the choices for various antivirus, anti-spyware, anti-malware, and cleaning programs available today, it is easy to get lost and not know where to begin setting up protection for your computer. Today we want to introdu...
The CMD is the Command Prompt with which you can operate Windows with DOS commands. If you frequently open the Command Prompt in Windows, check out the open source Console utility. That’s a nifty replacement for the CMD that...
Previous articles have covered app launchers such as sTabLauncher that add extra toolbars/taskbars to the top of the desktop. For something more original, add the SliderDock app launcher to Windows. That’s a rotating ring fr...
If you’re looking for a quick way to add website shortcuts to the Windows desktop, give HTMtied a try. That’s a portable app which coverts any URL (Universal Resource Locator) from the Windows Clipboard into an HTML fi...
Microsoft added a fantastic Aero Glass effect to Windows 7 with Windows Aero. However, Windows 7 doesn’t have many options to customize Windows Aero. Nevertheless, we can further tweak Windows Aero with AeroTuner, which has a few ...
The Send To option on the context menu gives you a handy shortcut for moving folders and documents to alternative locations. Although you don’t need any extra software to add new items to the Send To submenu, you can’t...
An autotile option that automatically resizes open windows to fit the desktop is not included with Windows. However, with the Plumb application we can add an autotile option to Windows. That’s a software package which automa...
If you’re looking for some software to customize the cursor with, consider adding PointerStick to Windows. That’s software which adds a stick to your mouse cursor. As the stick considerably expands the cursor, it makes...
Today, most mouses have at least three buttons. A standard mouse has two buttons plus a scroll wheel that counts as a third. You can scroll through website pages with that wheel, and to further customize its settings add KatMouse ...
