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RSS or blog feeds are becoming increasingly popular. Almost all of the major online email providers also have online feed readers. However, if you already use an email client (like Outlook Express), then you may not want to install more software in order to read the feeds. There are several services that will send the …
I’ve reviewed several Software602 software packages in the past, but nothing recently. They keep churning out new updates, and they have released a new version of Print2PDF: Print2PDF 6.0 was introduced on September 14, 2006. This new version features a completely redesigned conversion engine for increased performance, Microsoft Office 2007 file support, AutoCAD DWF file …
I received an email this week from Uniblue about their recent release of SpeedUpMyPC v3.0: You might want to tell your audience about the release of SpeedUpMyPC v3.0 which dramatically increases system efficiency and boosts launch applications. Version 3.0 is easy to use with single-click navigation and has several new clean-up features. You can take …
I saw this on Download Squad… Media-Convert is a fairly impressive web service that will convert a file from one file format to another. That sounds pretty benign, but what’s impressive is how many formats it supports. There’s a good chance Media-Convert supports almost every document on you computer, including dozens of audio and video …
Another good one from Download Squad: If you’re like me… then you probably are a total sucker for any Netscape or digg post that claims to give you information about some super-secret registry tweak that will make your XP box faster. I know I’ve tried every one in the book, and I found the more …
There are lots of tools out there to help you recover files that you’ve deleted off of removable media (such as memory cards). Some are free and some are not. Today I accidentally came across something that may be helpful. I have a SanDisk card reader connected to my computer. It has 4 different card …
The Google Operating System blog had a posting recently about a freeware disk defragmenting utility I’d never heard of before: Auslogics Disk Defrag is a freeware for Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista with a simple interface, that runs much faster than the built-in defragmenter. You can’t defragment more than one partion at a time or set …
Regular reader Pat sent me a great document of Microsoft Word shortcuts and tips. As I looked into it, I found it was originally referenced on the InformationWeek site in an article called Office Letter: A Cheat Sheet for Word: Office Letter reader Lyn Hancock wrote to share her list of shortcuts for Word. This …
I received this information from Iolo the other day regarding their Search and Recover 4 software: Have you ever accidentally deleted a treasured photo, erased an important document, or deleted an email message you wish you could get back? Accidentally deleting photos, files, songs, e-mail, or videos can leave you feeling angry and helpless. With …
Quite some time ago Chris reviewed Stardock’s Object Desktop. It was an impressive product. The latest version has been released: Object Desktop 2007 has just been released and it has a ton of great new features such as: * WindowBlinds 5 * DesktopX 3.2 * WindowFX 3 * RightClick 1.2 * Keyboard LaunchPad 1.5 And …