Articles about software
Ashampoo Snap 11 Winners Announced!! The winners will be notified by email. Ashampoo has graciously offered our DCT readers a chance to win one of five licenses for their Snap 11 screen/video capture software. These licenses are currently valued at a discounted price of […]
If you did not know, I have started a Gaming channel with my sons. I have been into gaming all my life and doing this with my kids makes it more fun. My kids have been asking me for years to start a YouTube channel
If you have your browser set to save passwords, then it’s possible to go into the browser’s settings to retrieve them. You can also use a free program called WebBrowserPassView from www.nirsoft.net/utils/web_browser_password.html I’ve used this in the past and wasn’t sure if it would work
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As reported in an earlier article from Terry Hollett — LastPass Changes Free Service — LastPass has changed the terms of service for its free password manager to exclude syncing across all devices, a feature which is now only available via LastPass premium accounts. This
CBZ means a Comic Book Zip Archive. It’s just a bunch of pictures (usually comic pages) put into numeric order, like the pages in a comic book. Most compression programs can extract the individual images from an archive. The last letter of an archive usually
LastPass I’ve been a user of the LastPass password manager for a while now and I’ve been reading online that they are changing their services for the users of the Free Version of their program: Changes to LastPass Free Before, you had to set up
My uncle wanted me to send him some documents online. Without giving it much thought, I saved them as PDF files when I just wanted image files. I converted the PDFs to images before sending them. I wrote about this before using an online service.
When Malwarebytes installs, you are given a free 14-day trial of their Premium Protection. I like to run the Real-Time Protection at least once before turning it off but you can let it run the full 14 days and it will tell you your trial
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Along with my external backups, I still use CDs and DVDs occasionally. Keep in mind that any backup is better than none at all. So, I was backing up some documents to a DVD when it refused to burn in BurnAware. A bunch of files
Antivirus products have always been among the most difficult applications to uninstall completely with leftover bits and pieces often causing residual issues. It’s one of the main reasons most antivirus vendors provide specialist tools to help completely uninstall their products. Back in 2015, we published
There are a lot of advantages to using portable versions of software. However, the one minor disadvantage over installed software is that portable software is not automatically set as the default application and we often have to perform that chore ourselves, manually. What that means
In this article, I’m going to explain how you can password protect files using a third-party compression tool. This feature is available in most free compression tools and the process is very similar in each, however, in this case, we’ll be working with the portable
ASCOMP PDF Conversa Winners Announced!! ASCOMP has kindly offered us five licenses for a giveaway contest. This time around, it is for their PDF Conversa conversion software. These licenses are currently valued at $20.00 (US). ASCOMP also offers a 14-day unlimited trial version so you
Classic books have been available in eBook format for some time from sources such as Project Gutenberg. However, if you’ve ever downloaded these eBooks you will have noticed that the formatting and design can often be askew/below par. Standard Ebooks is an online archive of
