Articles about software
Winners Announced! Audials One 2020 Audials has once again kindly given our DCT readers a chance to win one of five licenses for their new release of the wonderful Audials One 2020 software. I must say that this program impresses me. At this time of […]
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Antivirus products are, in my opinion, a lot like insurance– a necessary evil. These days, I tend to rely mostly on the built-in Microsoft Defender which does a good enough job for me and, as the latest results from AV-Test illustrate, will also do a
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Winners Announced! ASCOMP Secure Eraser Pro ASCOMP has generously offered five (5) licenses for their Secure Eraser Pro software to five lucky Dave’s Computer Tips (DCT) readers. Each license is currently valued at $29.90 (US). There is a free version available for personal use only,
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At my work, I acquire new eBook titles for our website. When doing this, we receive the eBooks in three formats: Epub, Mobi (Kindle), and PDF. The PDF format can sometimes be a very large file. This has to do with either the company I’m getting
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Wise Disk Cleaner works well to remove temporary and other unnecessary files, browser cache, and other things. I leave the defaults set as is. Care 365 is like the Disk Cleaner on steroids. It checks a lot more things. I leave the defaults as they
In 2007 Crytek released Crysis, one of the most influential games of all time, while setting the bar for luscious graphics and action-packed first-person shooters. The question, ”Yes, but can it run Crysis?”, has become a mantra in the gaming world and even today it
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Winners Announced! This contest has now expired. Winners will be notified by email. Congratulations to the Winners and Thank You to everyone who participated! The winners are listed at the bottom of this post. Ashampoo PDF Pro 2 Ashampoo has kindly offered five licenses to
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FastStone Image Viewer has long been my software of choice for managing and working with images and photos. A portable version is available and, as usual, that is my preference: Download FastStone Image Viewer FastStone Image Viewer includes so many options and features but what
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Windows To Go: Windows 10 on a bootable USB drive that you can take anywhere with you. You may or may not have heard of ”Windows To Go”, which is Windows 10 installed on a bootable USB drive. Windows 10 has a Windows To Go
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In early March this year, we published an article about Must-Have Desktop Gadgets. In true Murphy’s Law fashion, no sooner had I written that article when I came across a superb desktop clock that was obviously new to me. It’s called The Aero Clock from
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Winners Announced! [message type=”info”] This contest has now expired. Winners will be notified by eMail Amit Khalid Hovsep Avedissian Kiril Zernovski Sanjay Mehra Congratulations to the Winners and Thank You to everyone who participated! [/message] Ashampoo Zip Pro 3 Ashampoo has generously offered our DCT
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Everybody is talking about Zoom. Before this pandemic, I can’t say I ever heard of it. Years ago I used Skype a few times and more recently I used Google Hangouts for an online computer class when I was out of town. Then I found
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The Windows Clipboard is a feature built into the operating system that acts as intermediary storage when you copy and paste. Whenever you copy text, etc., whatever you copy is saved to the clipboard and then, when you paste, it is copied from the clipboard
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Windows 10 is a huge operating system and most of us probably only use a fraction of its many features, so for those of us who have far too much time on our hands — that’s most of us, now — here are a
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