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Emulation and Virtualisation For many people, getting older programs to run in newer systems is more about the means than the end. After all, once you finally get the program or game running half way decently, it will need to have the life tweaked […]
What is a RAMDrive? Before I dig into moving files to and from RAMDrives, let me tell you a little about what a RAMDrive is. Its name perfectly describes what it is. It is a Drive that resides in RAM. In other words, with a
It’s always handy to centralize one’s email accounts, and Outlook.com added this ability relatively recently and without much fanfare. Outlook.com uses the IMAP protocol to import and monitor external accounts. According to Wikipedia: Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) is a protocol for e-mail retrieval and
There are times when we’re clearing out the old junk lying about in the garage or stuffed away in dusty boxes in the attic, when we come across those treasured artifacts from the golden age of computing. If you’re a gamer, you’ll probably be remembering
Aliases, or alternative email addresses, are an easy and useful way to isolate/separate specific emails and help keep your main Outlook.com email address off the radar. Aliases were first introduced into Hotmail sometime ago and have been carried over to the Outlook.com webmail service. Outlook.com
For those who may be unaware, VLC is a popular free and open source cross-platform media player developed by the VideoLan Organization. VLC’s widespread popularity stems largely from its excellent codec (video format) support and powerful range of features, you can check it out here:
Adding a two step verification is a good way to beef up your security for online accounts. Not every site offers this option but for those that do, you should take advantage and set it up. Setup 2-Step Verification for Evernote Yesterday I set up
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Twitter recently introduced several new features designed “to make photos on Twitter more social”, including the ability to ‘tag’ people in photos. This means your name can be ‘tagged’ (or associated) with any photo, regardless of whether you actually appear in it or not.
I’ve always been a fan of local email clients, and Microsoft’s native email client in particular; from Outlook Express to Windows Mail through to the latest iteration, Windows Live Mail. Familiarity is one defining factor yes, but in my experience MS’s email clients have always
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Spring Cleaning and the rest of the year Every day my computer is scheduled to do a backup in the afternoon. Roughly once a week, I transfer these files to an external hard drive. Once a month I put copies of all these backups on
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Bandwidth Usage and Broadband Caps Our very own Dave Hartsock wrote an article back in 2011 that still makes a lot of sense to me. Some articles seem timeless and this is one of them. You can read “Do Broadband Caps Make Sense” to give
Windows Disk Cleanup – The Gargantuan WinSxS Folder Windows Vista introduced the WinSxS (Side x Side) folder to address problems in previous versions of the operating system. It allowed several versions of the same data libraries to be used from within a single location. Perhaps
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Bypassing the Windows Log On Screen It makes perfect sense in Windows 8 to use your Microsoft account to keep things up-to-date and synchronized. Consider all those “Live Tiles”, for instance, which would otherwise suffer an untimely death due to a lack of Internet sustenance.
I have been an Avast Free user for some time and am overall quite satisfied with the level of protection afforded, suffice to say that I can’t even remember the last time my machine was infected. One of the features included with Avast is the
