What to do?
I barely post anymore, but I’m reluctant to give up the domain. I’m not sure what I’m going to do…
How to edit PDF documents for free
gHacks had an article back in the spring about how to edit PDF documents for free.
Microsoft Windows and Office ISO Download Tool
I haven’t tried this myself yet, but ghacks posted about a program called Microsoft Windows and Office ISO Download Tool. It makes it pretty easy to download ISOs of all of the different Windows versions. You still need a licence key to activate them properly, but if your computer didn’t come with a restore CD, …
Macrium Reflect Free
I haven’t tried this yet, but if you are interested in a free Windows disk cloning software package, check out Macrium Reflect Free. According to the site, the free version will do the following: Macrium Fast Imaging VSS Support for Data integrity Drag and drop user interface Reorder & resize partitions GPT support UEFI Support …
A few good WordPress tutorials
I run WordPress on half a dozen blogs. None of them get a lot of traffic, but they allow me to post about things I’m interested in, as well as keep in contact with certain people. Here are a some links to some good tutorials to do various things with WordPress. How to Install WordPress …
Penguin Penalty Analysis Tool
I used to get a lot of traffic on my Niagara Falls Blog and PCIN.net Update blog. However, at some point it dropped off significantly. The PCIN.net Update blog certainly may have been my fault, as I wasn’t posting often, but I was posting a lot on my Niagara Falls Blog. I’m sure that it …
Convert Windows XP to a virtual machine with VirtualXP
Ghacks has a nice article about a tool that will convert a Windows XP computer to a virtual machine VirtualXP is a free for personal use software that can turn an existing Windows XP system into a virtual machine that you can run on a newer version of Windows afterwards. It works by converting the …
Find your Windows Experience Index scores in Windows 8.1
C|Net has a nice article about how to find your Windows Experience Index in Windows 8.1. I followed the steps, and mine is 5.9 because of the hard drive.
Windows 8.1 Group Policy to Force Domain Logon as Default?
I just started using Windows 8.1 at work, and whenever I restart my computer, it defaults to logging into a Microsoft account. I have to click something extra in order to login to the domain. I found some references in a Microsoft forum to a couple of group policy settings that I will need to …
Google hires camel for desert Street View
From CNN.com: It’s given us robot cars and internet-enabled glasses — but when it came to creating a “Street View” of a desert, Google hit on a low-tech solution. It hired a camel. The beast has become the first animal to carry Google’s Trekker camera, which is typically hoisted by humans to capture 360-degree images …