Category «Software Tips»

Game Developers at Midori Release a New Game, Smack Solitaire

I received the following press release: December 07, 2005, Burgundy, France – Independent game and software company, Midori, has announced the release of a new computer game called, “Smack Solitaire,” Solitaire games developed for both Mac and PC. Smack Solitaire is a collection of 30 different types of Solitaire games. In the set, players have …

Unlocker 1.7.5

Ever had such an annoying message given by Windows? It has many other flavors: Cannot delete file: Access is denied There has been a sharing violation. The source or destination file may be in use. The file is in use by another program or user. Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and …

BlogJet 1.6 Released

Not too long ago, I reviewed BlogJet 1.5. Well, an update has just been released that seems to address numerous issues and add some nice features: I’m excited to announce the new release – BlogJet 1.6 “Lime”!(Lime is a codename ). NEW FEATURES Free Flickr integration plugin (included, no installation required). Auto Replace. Title and …

RootkitRevealer

There has been a lot of discussion across the Internet over the last several days about the Sony DRM software that installs itself as a rootkit. One of the tools available to see if you have anything like a rootkit installed is Sysinternals RootkitRevealer. I downloaded it and ran it on my system. It only …

Microsoft Search Engine

Today there is a search engine that focuses on Microsoft technology! We cover Microsoft Server applications, .NET and programming, Operating Systems, Microsoft desktop and Office applications, and gaming. Now you have an easy to navigate site designed for the senior Microsoft administrators, developers, decision makers and end-users. Check it out at http://www.microsoftsearchengine.com/

PC Magazine Tips

PC Magazine has hundreds of tips that are searchable on their site. If you visit the main tips page, you’ll see the most current tip. If you scroll almost to the bottom, you’ll see categories (operating systems, applications, browsers, hardware) that you can browse. You can also search by keywords. For instance, I did a …

How to use the Application Recovery tool in Office 2002 and in Office 2003

Microsoft Knowledgebase article 294933 explains how to use the Microsoft Office Application Recovery. This tool provides you with a way to potentially recover data from an Office program that stops responding (hangs). If an Office program stops responding during your work session, you are no longer forced to terminate the program in Windows Task Manager …