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Ed Bott mentioned that Laplink is celebrating their 25th anniversary. Yesterday they were giving away PCmover for free. However, their servers couldn’t handle the traffic as word got around, so they’ve extended it through today. Visit the Laplink web site to register and download the software. I don’t know when or if I’ll use it, …
Adobe Photoshop (along with Photoshop Elements) have a feature called “actions”. These are similar to macros you might find in a productivity suite. The “actions” let you do several things at once. I recently came across a site that explains nicely what an action is and how to start using them. …have you ever had …
PC World has an article about neat things you can do with Google: Every time I turn around, Google’s come up with something new, cool, or innovative. It’s no wonder it has Microsoft on the run.
In an article about extending battery life, Dennis O’Reilly mentions the RightMark CPU Clock utility he uses. Not only does it show information about your CPU, but it also lets you control several different power settings. RightMark CPU Clock Utility (RMClock) is a small GUI application designed for real-time CPU frequency, throttling and load level …
PC Magazine has a huge collection of tips: Crafted by our analysts and editors and tested in PC Labs, our vast list of tips starts with the fundamentals of computing and then moves on to multimedia, mobility, business, and online solutions for maximizing your digital life.
I’ve linked to various Windows Secrets newsletter items in the past. It is an excellent newsletter and I highly recommend it. The issue I received today has a link to nine freeware apps that have been regularly centred out/chosen in “best of” lists. The “best freeware” lists published by Web sites and magazines frequently trumpet …
A couple of months ago Download Squad highlighted the program FontEXPRO: Are you constantly struggling to remember the difference between Arial, Times New Roman and Palatino Linotype? Sure, you could just keep changing fonts from the drop-down menus in your word processor, or you could use FontEXPRO to preview all the fonts stored on your …
A couple of months ago Kim Komando mentioned a program called GreenPrint which helps you eliminate those pages with 2 lines on the bottom which waste paper: Our patent-pending print preview, GreenView, displays all pages and highlights wasteful pages in red. With a click you can: print only what you want, remove images or text, …
Windows Vista has all sorts of new applets that help you manage your computer. A while ago the Windows Secrets newsletter explained how you could do some of this in Windows XP. One of these utilities was XP Syspad: XP SysPad is a Windows system monitoring utility that allows easy access to Windows system information …
There have been quite a bit of news recently about the Windows Vista upgrade DVD not really needing anything to upgrade from. You can do a clean install of Vista without putting in the product key, and then upgrade that installation. That talk has led to some talk about doing a clean install of XP, …