Get out the balloons and cut the cake, it’s the mobile phone’s 40th birthday today!! Startling though it may now seem, the very first call on a handheld mobile phone was made on 3rd April way back in 1973. Motorola Chief Researcher Martin Cooper was […]
In part one of this series I showed you how to hide the Navigation Pane and how to Show all Folders. In Part 2 I will show you how to remove individual links from the Navigation Pane. This will involve editing the registry so use
I was sifting through my usual early morning online news sources today when I came across a couple of reports which really tickled the ole humerus. The fact that the two stories were published on the same day and involve a somewhat similar topic is
The Windows 8 Navigation Pane in Windows Explorer can, just as in Windows 7, be twisted and tuned to your preferred view. Some people use the navigation pane, others don’t. I fall into my own category of ‘I hate the Navigation Pane’! Why? because, in
An electronic engineer and inventor in Dublin, Ireland has produced what is claimed to be the smallest PC in the world. Measuring just 2.5″ x 2″ (smaller than a cigarette packet) the ultra-mini PC is powered by an Intel Atom CPU with 1GB RAM. Storage
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Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (MBAM) is one of my all time freeware favorites, and I am certainly not alone in that regard – MBAM is one of the most downloaded freeware programs on the planet. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware follows a common ‘freemium’ distribution model, with the free version
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Google Reader is dead, I say dead, it’s already dead in my country, perhaps it’s still breathing its last in yours. But do you have an alternative? There are a few about, and using Microsoft Outlook is one of them. Whether your Google Reader is
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Should You install a RAMDrive? RAMDrives (also called RAMDisks) use, uh… RAM (Random Access Memory). That means that if you don’t have enough to begin with then a RAMDrive is not for you. What is enough? If you’re running Windows 7 (64-bit) then the sweet spot
It seems that hardly a day, or certainly a week, goes by without some website being hacked and member information being stolen. Some companies (Facebook, Twitter and Dropbox to name a few) offer two-step verification to make it more difficult to hack into your account.
When it came time to get my own cell plan and adopt the same device and ecosystem as my coworkers, I was a bit sad to end my 3 year relationship with Android. I knew I’d miss the customizability and widgets of Android, but I looked forward to being
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All Windows 8 users must be familiar with the Charms bar hint/pop-out and it must get on the nerves of at least some of them. The idea in itself is okay but I find the reality of it very annoying. It doesn’t matter what you
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Its no big secret that I like to customize my computer and I change it all around at least once a week. Icons play a big part in personalizing my computer and making it mine. I have written an article on icons and how to
Out with the old in the with new. No sooner has Google decided to abandon Google Reader, its popular RSS feed reader, than we hear of a new service on offer from the internet giant. The net has been abuzz with news of Google’s new online sticky
