Techtools 3.0

Looking for Techtools for daily computer user's to use on your flash drive. Download this portable utility that promises to make your life easier.

Tech Tools 3.0
Dial A Fix 
WinDirStat
SIW
Recover Files
Fraps
TagScanner 

More Free Online Books

Looking for free online books, here goes nothing. Just check out the links and download the free e-books.

Amazon E-book
Barnes & Noble
Google Books
Calibre
Gutenberg
Many Books
DailyLit
Feedbooks
PublicDomain
Feedbooks
Reader Store

Plain old Favorites for Firefox

Here's a nice add on for Firefox to help you use IE Favorites when your on Firefox. You will no longer have to Import Firefox favorites from IE and it just might save you some time.

Real World Cell Phone Coverage

Ever wanted to know what the real world cell phone coverage looks like. This map will clarify what service connections are good in your area. You'll be happy and surprise to know the truth.

Windows 8 via USB

Looks like Microsoft is planning on creating a portable work space that will enable the Windows OS to run from a flash drive. The bad side about it, is that it looks like it's catering for enterprise usage. It's still to early, let's wait and see.

Don't forget bob

Gmail for a while has been using don't forget bob as a new feature to insure that your emailing everyone. It's a great feature and keeps you inform on contacts you usually write too. Make sure you try it out, if you haven't yet.

Auto Batch File in Win 7

Want to automatically start a batch file on Windows 7. This is how to do it. Now all you need is a good batch file to keep you computer at optimum speed.

Change Win 7 Product Key

Ever wanted to know how to change a Windows 7 product key. This is just in case your Windows 7 product key is not valid and you need to purchase a new key to activate Windows again.
 

Win 7 Firewall Control

Tired of Windows 7 Firewall not working correctly. Give Firewall Control a try and learn how to curve Windows Firewall from controlling what you want it to do.

Toshiba Secure Drives

Toshiba is taking data breach so serious that they are in development of new hardware drives that can detect if it's plugged into a new system. Your drive data if encrypted and plugged in will be useless.
Three thumbs up for Toshiba.

Clean multi user's with CCleaner

Here's a great tip on how to clean multiple user's accounts with CCleaner the handy utility that does a great job on cleaning your computers unwanted temporary files.



CCleaner software

A Google a Day

Here's a new site from Google for those trivia game players. It's a search engine for trivia questions. Hopefully now everyone can rest assure to find the answers to your game questions.

Bluetooth Remote

Want to remotely control your computer using a cell phone. Here's a neat way to do it using Bluetooth. It's going to require you to install Python on your cell phone media card and the client software on your main computer.
Now movies, music and games can be controlled remotely from your cell phone via Bluetooth.

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Phone Remote Software
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Is Over Clocking for you?

Here is some informative information on Over Clocking someones computer. What most of them won't tell you until it's too late. Like risking your computer life. It's not for everyone, is it for you?

Social Web site's Winners vs Losers

Here are the current social websites stats from winners to losers. Regardless of their up and downs it's only a matter of time before their is a new social site on the block. This is big business.

Adobe Smart Moves

Why own an old software when you can just pay your monthly fees and have the latest software. Adobe current move is just to rent the software monthly and never buy. I just hope their subscription rates go down so that it's affordable to almost anyone who wants to use the software.

Partition Magic Alternative

Here's an all in one partition software manager to re-size your drive. Has long as you have space, there should be no problem using this software to expand.

Windows 8 PDF viewer

Rumor has that Windows 8 will include a PDF viewer similar to what user's have on their phone. The new OS will be setting standards for PC and tablet user's. It's about time Microsoft.

Hello Fax merges with Google Drive

If you have a Gmail account and already added on Google drive you your list. You might as well add on Hello Fax because now with all your Google Documents you can send and receive faxes.
Google Drive taking it one step further.


Also don't forget to install Chrome Hello Fax so that you can easily send and receive faxes.
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Google Blocking Search

If you haven't heard of it yet, it's been already going on for a while. Google has been blocking torrent and other movie pirating sites from it's search engines. It's they're quest to root out piracy from the Internet. Good luck on that, it just changes the game a little for pirate downloads.

Public Search Engines

Public search engine's come and go because of privacy rights.Regardless of the issues, here are some more sites to keep in mind.


vitalrec.com
usa.gov
deathindexes.com
UK Search
Census finder
Marriage Records



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Gmail Restore Contact

Always worried that one day you might just loose all of your contacts in Gmail. No need to worry anymore with Gmail Contacts Restore. Now Restoring your Contacts is a thing of the past.

Restore contacts

If you make changes to your contacts that you want to undo, you can restore your full contacts list to an earlier saved version. This allows you to undo changes like:

• Recovering contacts that have been accidentally deleted
• Restoring contacts after an unsuccessful sync
• Undoing a recent import
• Undoing a recent merge

To restore your contacts to a previous version, just follow these steps:

1. Click Contacts.
2. From the More actions drop-down menu, choose Restore contacts.
3. Choose the time you'd like to revert your contacts list to (e.g. 10 minutes ago, one hour ago, one week ago, etc). We suggest that you also make a note of the time that you restore your contacts, in case you'd like to return to where you started.
4. Click Restore. You'll see a confirmation at the top of the screen when the rollback is complete.

To undo a restoration:

• When the operation completes, a notification bar will appear that gives you the opportunity to immediately undo the restore. This notification bar will disappear if you leave Contacts or make edits to your contacts.
• If the notification bar is no longer there, you can always re-run the Restore Contacts tool to take you back to where you started. Just set the tool to take you to the time just before you started the whole process.

When Ckdsk doesn't Work

Here are some commands and links to help you get that Chkdsk command to work on your computer. It's a valuable command that fixes most of your computer errors if your computer one day decides not to boot. 

Instructions

Other commands to use are
scf /scannow

Fly on the Computer

Every year I loved to have fun doing April Fool pranks and even though it's a little late during the year. Your never too late to get a good laugh. Try it out and there is also a portable version.

Control a PC when it crashes

Here is a great way to control a computer when it crashes. All you need is an Intel AMT KVM chip and once it's setup correctly. You can control the computer regardless if it has an operating system or not.

Secure Chrome

Here is a great article to help you secure Chrome to it's fullest. All you really need is to disable Flash, Java and some other applications to fully secure the browser. Now you can surf online at ease.

International Space Station

Here's is a great way to see the International Space Station from beginning to Present. It's amazing on how far we have gone. It has been also said that once the Station is eventually finished, it would be probably useless because of the old technology. I guess well have to see.

Calibrate Android

Tired of your Android phone always running out of power. Here is a battery calibrator to tweak your Android battery to last longer.

Track Your Favorite Shows

Want to track your favorite shows online so that you can setup your Tivo or DVR to record when your not home. Here is a website that caters to your needs.They're are so many alerts that can easily be setup to remind you when your favorite shows are playing.


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School Stats

Here is some interesting statistics on school. It's just amazing to see how much profit and funding goes into getting a higher education. I am just over amazed on how every year they keep on increasing my tuition.

Google Drive

Google recently released news that it's going to compete against DropBox and other online storage facilities. It's a plus for Google and it's going to keep their image current in the business environment. Give it a try if you haven't already. 

Gmail Copy & Paste

Did you know that you can copy & paste in Gmail. Well if you didn't know that you could do it, you now know. All you have to do is use the mouse second key option to copy image and to paste you use again the mouse second key to paste image. You should be able to copy almost anything, give it a try.

Change Printer Automatically

Here is a great tweak to change your printer every time you change networks. It's built into Windows 7 and all you have to do is to adjust the managed default printer. Now where ever you go, your printer settings will adjust automatically.

Comm Test

Want to test network speed among two computers. Here is a software that will test your network connections. Easy to use and monitor over time if you want to bypass using the command prompt option.

At Home Wifi Android App

Here is a great at home Adroid application to keep your phone unlocked. It detects your WiFi when your at home and triggers the application to keep you phone unlocked when your at home.

Save Cash on Ink

Here are some good examples of saving cash on ink cartridges. To this day I still don't understand why so many people print everything, when most of the information can be easily saved as a pdf and stored on a flash drive.

Clean a PC

Here is some steps that everyone should take when cleaning out a computer. It's not every day that we encounter static electricity. But you should be aware of it. This is still not an excuse not to clean up your computer and remove the mounds of dust balls inside of it.

AC Clothes

Don't laugh it could one day happen. What seems to many as a joke, the old Sony technician is making it happen. Air Conditioned Clothes are coming. It's still far from perfect but it's a step in the right direction. Hey why not, the astronauts have this type of technology and one day we will too.

BlueTooth Horror

Here's a very interesting Bluetooth experience.

I was driving by on the Highway and my phone which is connected to my car Bluetooth went off.
What happened next, just amazes me, someone changed the user ID on the Bluetooth and cloned my id to the car Bluetooth like nothing happened. Even though nothing was compromised a threat is still present. Anyone with the right tools can easily tap into your Bluetooth device and clone your phone, copy your personal contacts, retrieve personal information stored on your phone and if you have bank applications, even steal you banking passwords.
Bluetooth has no guard against these threats yet and it could be sometime before you ever do see this. So if you don't use your Bluetooth device on your phone, just turn it off until you need it. 


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Popular BlueTooth Hacks
Protect Yourself

Bizarre Dating Sites

I never thought that dating can be so bizarre, check out these odd dating sites that will make you think twice. Good luck.

The Ugly Bug Ball
Sea Captain
Date My Single Kid
Super Harmony
Beautiful People
Dating for Pot Smokers
Women Behind Bars
Lookalikes

Ultimate Windows Tweaker

A must if your interested on Tweaking your Windows Vista & Win 7 OS. It just makes tweaking so easier to do.

Hard Drive Testing Tool

Download the Fujitsu Hard Drive testing tool to verify if the hard drive is working or not.

Google Public Weather Alerts

Call this an awareness site, but Google now is taking weather alerts serious by incorporating first alerts to it's maps. It's Google first play at weather maps and it things go right. Let's just say other sites my follow suit.

Silence Scheduler

Hate to have your phone ring when your at work in school. Here's a great Android application to helps silence your phone and abide by a schedule so that your not interrupted while working.

Goodbye to Norton & McAfee

Here is an article regarding the popular Norton and McAfee Antivirus. It's unfortunate that they haven't surpassed the losing market on making an effective antivirus software.
I try every year to convince myself to want to pay for the premium service, but who can resist with freewares like Microsoft Essentials.

Windows Update List

Trying to figure out if you have a specific Windows patch on your computer. This Windows update list folder will give you just that with the associated updated files.

Fix the Installed Memory usable error

To fix the installed memory to read all the installed RAM on your computer.

1. Type msconfig in the search box
2. goto Boot tab
3. click Advanced Options
4. Tick Maximum memory to your full ram. (in my case 4GB, so 4096)
5. Then press OK.
6. Double check it again by click the Advanced options again. If you found out that the Maximum memory reset to 0, then change it to 4095.
7. Restart your computer.

Font

Every once in a while I accidently find websites online and share them with others so that it can be used later on. Here is another great site to bookmark for fonts. At least now you can style your next book report.

Tiny Spell

Here's a portable application for spell checkers who always need to make sure that they are always writing correctly. It's so cool that you can even use it with word pad.

Frostwire

Limewire is dead but that doesn't mean you can stop file sharing. Here's a Limewire alternative and let the sharing begin.

ISO folder

Want to create an ISO within a given folder. ISO folder is a good option because now you can easily select the folder and create where you want the file to be burned to. Now burning an ISO is easier.

Wireless Network Monitor

Want to always monitor the wireless network around you, so that if a stronger signal is detected you can easily connect. This handy utility does a great job on doing this.

Color

Share your photo's everywhere. It's a new social site application that share's your photo's among groups. No more sharing your phone for other's to see your pictures. The only bad thing is that your photo's are public. But has long as your aware on what your sharing, that shouldn't be a problem.

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Butterfly Theme's

Butterflies are so beautiful that every year when I begin to see them, I know it's the start of a beautiful summer. The next time you see a butterfly, remember to appreciate how such a beautiful insect decorates our lovely world.

20 Ways to use a Disposable Camera

Here are twenty different way to use a disposable camera. This is just the beginning, but it's amazing on what you can come up with when you let your mind take over the world of photography.

H&R Block Breach

Not good news for H&R Block during tax season. I am not bashing H&R Block because they do have good services for people who just don't know how to do their taxes. But I must admit that this identity break was sure expected to happen sooner or later. Read for yourself and you decide if this is an isolated incident or not.

Now let's see what H&R Block gives us for free this year and next year...

Drop Vox

Have a Dropbox account and now want to find a quick way to record your memo's. Introducing DropVox for iPhone users. All you do is install this application and record voice notes on the go to your Dropbox account.

Find My iPhone

Always loosing your iPhone and wished you had a software to easily located your device. This software is for free and it's been tested over and over by people who constantly loose their phones. It a must have application for anyone who fears on losing their phone.

Windows 7 Tweaks

Here is a great site that lists Windows 7 Tweaks for your computer. It's about time someone posted a site with great tweaks for your computer the way u want it.

Moodle

Blackboard is not the only online software for college students that's trying to take e-learning history. Moodle has been making great improvements and if they play they're cards right, they could possibly swallow up the remaining market share that Blackboard has failed to acquire. Let's go Moodle.

Why IE 9 is slower than Chrome

Microsoft made such a big deal on IE 9 that you would think it would be better than Google Chrome. Well Microsoft better go back to the drawing board, because new comer Chrome is still even better.

Mobile Bar Code Home Depot

It looks like Home Depot is now catching up with the mobile world. It has created a great home improvement application to help it's home user's Do it Yourself (DIY). If things go well for Home Depot other retailers will open doors to more mobile applications for the Do it Yourselfer's.

LinkedIn Surpasses 100 million

Well it looks like business social networking is getting popular. LinkedIn who started in 2002 now has more that 100 million subscribers. That's a lot of positive networking in the business world.

Four Square

Here's a great application to add to your iPhone that monitor's transportation time. I just hope that in the future transportation gets better predicting the time accurately.

Windows Intune

Looks like Microsoft is now moving into the business cloud management field. Not only does it monitor your updates, and protects you from malware. But it tracks hardware, set security policies and gives remote assistance. It's a premium priced software for IT Management. I just think Microsoft is just eleven years too late on this.

Learn something new each day

Want to learn something new each day. Sign up for this newsletter and receive plenty of great information each day to make you wiser. Each day will be full on interesting facts. 

Post Anonymous to Facebook

Hey why limit yourself to friend only comments on Facebook. Comments are meant to be shared with everyone, including the one's that don't want you to know. Hey I didn't start this.

Here's the secret. Hurry up, there is no telling how long this will last.

JiJi Technologies - Password Reset

Need to automate the user password reset on a network with less than 50 users. This software will does the trick and it's help desk free.

HeyWire

If you currently have an Android phone and have a limited text plan, there is good news for you. HeyWire can send text messages locally and internationally for free without using your limited text plan. All you do is install this wonderful application and now send text messages for free. It's about time.

Droid Stats

On a monthly plan with your cell phone company and wished that every time you use your phone, you can easily tell where your at with your minutes, text messages and broadband data. Well the cell phone company easily provides this information but the information is usually delayed. This application gives you all this information for free.

Reset your Android

From time to time it's always great to remember the factory default settings for your cell phone so when your ready to upgrade. Your personal phone information does not go public. Here's the how to instructions.

Time Warner Online

Looks like Time Warner cable is not taking chances when it comes to Internet television. They are already made moves to broadcast it's service via internet. This put's them in a great competition with soon to be rivals for the Internet television market.

What Changed

A small portable application that helps you monitor what recent computer changes have occurred on your current computer settings. It checks everything from the registry to new added files to your computer.

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Watts Clever

Ever wanted to recharge an alkaline battery, but knew that it's not likely. Well that theory has all changed with the Watts Clever. Now you can recharge your rechargeable batteries and regular batteries the same way making them last a little longer.

Don't Panic

Now erasing your browser history on the move is a thing of the past now that there is a portable version for your flash drive. It's now great to be portable.


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EV Charging Stations via Google Maps

You no longer need to worry on finding your next charging station. Thanks to Google Maps EV charging stations are just minutes away. Thanks Google.

Where American's are Moving

Interesting Forbes map that shows where Americans are moving ever since 2008.Whether it's good or bad has yet to be told. But it is interesting to see where most of them have moved in and out of.

Bandwidth Usage

Another great monitoring software that gives anyone the actual bandwidth usage that they're doing daily, weekly and monthly. Now mobile user's have an idea if they exceeded their monthly allowance usage on their plan.

Jailbreak your iTouch

Have an iTouch and want to jailbreak it, so that you can see what else you can do with it. The easiest way I've seen so far is by using Spirit. There are no keys to press and nothing to hold down. All you do is download, install and it's done.

Monitor Bandwith Consumption

Here's a great software to monitor what application is using up most of your bandwidth. It's a great software if you just can't figure out what's consuming most of your bandwidth.

If This Then That

Now you can make your social sites react when certain specifics occur. You'll now won't have to daily change your Twitter and Facebook avatar because everything now will be done automatically. Try it out and pimp out your profiles to make it more unique.

Accident Sketch

Recently was involved in a fender bender and now your insurance company is demanding paper work to describe how you got into that accident. Here is a great sketch form to help you fill out your accident claim. The insurance companies should of have this available for everyone years ago.

Run as an Administrator

Here is a great registry tweak to run all your programs as an administrator. I would caution everyone doing these tweaks since you are playing with your registry. But if all goes as planned all you have to do is right click and you can easily run your programs as an administrator.

Spiceworks goes Portable

Now managing a network is a thing from the past now that Spiceworks has gone portable. You'll always be able to monitor your networks while on the go. Never be down with Spiceworks.

Win Vista & 7 Themes

Here are some more Windows themes for Windows Vista & 7 user's. These new feature's are included in Windows 8, but you can have them now until the final version is completed.

Intuit Payment Network

Here's an easier way to get your bills paid online. Just use Intuit Payment Network to have your clients pay your bills online. To join it's free and Intuit only charges $.50 per invoice paid with a two day wait for transfers to your account after bill is paid. In the real world every minute counts and it's worth the cost.

IE 6 Still Lives

Microsoft wished that everyone could just upgrade their browsers and say goodbye to IE 6 but apparently that is not so. Although still a small percentage, Windows user's still insist on using their standard browsers. So to bad Microsoft, your just going to have to learn to still include browser support for IE 6.

Lady's Night Every Night

Planning a Lady's Night out. No problem with this handy application. It's a rating application app and the more they use it the better it gets. Now is when the party begins.

See Your Facebook Friends

Here's a great way to see all of your Facebook friends via Google Map. The application is pretty sweet as long as your confident to let others see your friends.

Mozy Mobile

Looks like Mozy is now competing with DropBox on trying to be accessible where ever you go. It's a great move for Mozy going beyond the desktop.

My Tax Refund

This year when you finish doing your tax refund and using Turbo Tax, download the great application called My Tax Refund. It tracks your e-file and lets you know when your getting your money.

Online Satellite Finder

Installing a satellite receiver by yourself and just can't seem to find the right coordinates to point your satellite for programming. Hopefully this online satellite finder will narrow down your latitude and longitude. You'll just be amazed on how much free television you can get with one of these units.

NeatReciepts Free Alternative

Here is a great way to get the same results using the current Neat Receipts concept. Except everything is free. All you do is just snap a picture of your receipts and file them online for later use.

Download Windows Theme 8

Interested on getting the new Windows 8 themes before it's out. Microsoft is already preparing Windows 8 and if you want to share the upcoming Windows 8 themes. Here you go.

Browser Password Viewer

Great software to retrieve your browser passwords when you forget them. I don't understand why Windows make this so difficult to attain. It's should be this simple.

Get Location via IP Address

Have an IP address and what to verify it's location to see where it's coming from. It's a great source for validating Host IP origins.

Backup Gmail to your PC

Here are the easy steps to backup all your mail in Gmail to your personal computer. Your never certain when outages may occur again and at least you'll be better off safe than sorry.

TellFi

Here is a great small business application to help you route all of those important calls you get on a daily basis without the use of hardware. It's cheap and specially designed so that average individual can set it up in minutes. At least now your company is on the right track.

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Join a MAC to the Active Directory

It's not an easy task and the computer will not be in any way controlled by the Active Directory. But at least you can make it part of your network by sharing folders.

Credit Card Online Future

Interesting article on how credit cards are not the future for online payments. It looks like for now the credit card, which is an old method of payment is currently working for online payments. But as for the future, it's still to be determined.