Software Piracy

Pretty interesting information on software piracy. If you think the United States is a problem, think again. I don't understand why certain people would have comments on piracy, when in fact that became successful because of piracy. Did any even watch the Pirates of Silicon Valley?

Secure files on a USB

Here's a great way to secure files on a flash drive. Now there is no need to worry when you going portable in the world of technology. 

Facebook Excel Hack

At work and want to always be on Facebook, but don't want other's to see what your doing. Here's a great excel hack linking into Facebook. All you have to do is download the spreadsheet and add it along with your other excel files or just have it open all by itself. Other's will be amazed that now, your now working.


Spreadsheet

Beginner's Guide to Scripting

Want to learn scripting. Well you'll never going to learn how to do it unless you learn the basics. It's better to first have an understanding on how it works so that you always can create good scripts. 

Stop Software Installation

Lack any computer skills but want to lock out a computer from installing any software. This software utility will help you keep software off any computer via password protection. Exactly the way the professionals do it.

Quiz Creater

Here is a great software for businesses and educators. Now you can easily make a quiz in matter of minutes and publish it online so that other's can participate. Now making up a quiz is a thing of the past. 

WiFi Safety

Today every place that you go you can't help it to enjoy free WiFi. Whether it's in a hotel, coffee shop, convention center, beach, bookstore, restaurant, fast food places, etc, WiFi is here to stay for good. Now just because it's free doesn't necessarily mean that it's secure. So I would suggest you read this article the next time you decide to roam hotpots. 

Video Capture

Here's a great way to capture video from your hard drive. Now recording from your screen, webcam or input video can easily be recorded as long as it can be seen from your monitor. It's a must have software for user's who just love to record. 

Universal File Opener

Now there should be no reason for anyone not being able to open a file on their computer. This software connects with a hundred of software's that are in the current market today. Do we need to add some more.

Windows 8 new file / copy / move

Windows 8 is still not here yet and we are learning new changes from Microsoft. Now the file, copy and move is now in one dialogue where you can pause or resume at anytime. 

Laptop Motherboard Repairs

Here is a great site to troubleshoot Laptop Motherboard Repairs. It gives you some great tips on what to look for if your laptop mother board begins to fail.

The signs are here:

Tell tale signs of motherboard failure:

1. You have switched on the computer being indicated by the light and fan also starts to spin. But there is complete black- out on the computer screen with the hard drive not working within 10- 15 sec.
2. The initial start up functions appear like indicative light, fan and hard drive sound, but  disappears after a while i.e. 5 – 3 mins.
3. A high pitched sound comes from the laptop when you press the “on” button.
4. Last one can be that even when you have switched on the computer nothing happens.

Need to Reinstall Windows

Your computer keeps on crashing and your tired of the same old problems and you know that you will eventually have to re-install Windows. Well if you don't have the recovery disks, which most new computer don't. It's probably pre-installed in your hard drive hidden partition. The only way to install the software is to restore it to factory defaults. Here is the function on most computers to re-install.

Dell XP - Ctrl+F11
Dell Vista - F8
Compaq - F11
HP Desktop Vista - F11
Emachine - F10
Acer - Alt+F10
Lenovo - F12

Doc to Image

Want to convert a document to PDF. This online site requires no installation and helps you convert your powerpoint, excel and word documents via PDF online.

Network Tools

Here's a great network tool to tell you all your LAN's network resources from computers, disk and printer shares from all your domain and work groups.

Bat to EXE Converter

Already have a BAT file and want to convert it to an EXE file. Here is a great program to help you do just that. Now all you have to do is create a shortcut.

ISO to USB

It's about time. Now that Tablet are in and Laptop and computer's are on the way out. The demand for software distributing on Tablets is still fairly new.  For now it looks like it will be flash drive driven and I am just glad to see this software come to my rescue. 

Visualize Me

Want to stand out from the crowd, this site promises just that by posting your achievements on line with your skills for others to review. It even gives you a personalized url to go your business cards. It's a new technique on getting yourself noticed in this job market. 

Path.to

Job hunting and tired of posting your resume on the not so professional websites. Take a look at this site with a different approach and increase the possibilities on getting reviewed. Job hunting now has become more interesting. 

Stand By - Hibernate - Shut Down - Restart

For most user's the words Shut Down and Restart is easy to understand because user's always do this. But when it comes to Stand By and Hibernate, their is always a confusion because the two things do a similar job with a difference.
In plain English if you stand by and the power goes out you loose your data in Stand By mode. When if you Hibernate and power goes out, your data is saved.

Stand By - loose data if PC looses power

Hibernate - saves your data 

Shut Down - turns off your computer

Restart - restarts your computer

HotShut

Looking for the easiest way to reboot, lock, log-off, or shut down your computer. This tiny application puts all these commands on your taskbar for easy access.