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Archive for April, 2008
Web-articles.info: Gain Valuable Backlinks From Your Content
One way to rise up Google’s rankings is to get your content listed on other sites, with valuable backlinks pointing back to your site. Gaining backlinks sometimes can seem like a lottery, but there are ways in which you can gain guaranteed backlinks to your site.
One such way is to submit your original content to [...]
Startup Delayer: Speedup Windows BootTimes
Do you have applications that startup when you boot windows? You probably have some that do various things in the background without you realising. The time taken for every one of these applications to start and do their thing adds vital seconds to your PC boot times, which can make it unresponsive while your PC [...]
TweakNow: Tweak Your XP Or Vista Machine Safely
Many PC tweaking utilities can be risky to use as they present you with dozens of options at a time, and when you change a dozen things at once something is bound to go wrong. The problem in this situation normally is, how do you roll back so many changes?
10 Essential Free Vista Media Center Addons & Tweaks
I’ve had a lot of fun customizing Windows Vista Media Center over the last couple of days. Here are the best 10 free tweaks and addons I’ve found for VMC that will allow you to get so much more out of your Windows Media Center.
How To Fix Devices That Have Been Dropped In Water
Sometimes old wives cures are the best and there is no need to despair the next time you spill something on your expensive phone or mp3 player, or drop it in water. The solution is simple – just leave it overnight in a bowl of rice!
Start Vista Media Center In Media-Only Mode
In the final post of my Vista Media Center customization weekend, I’ve discovered thanks to Everton a way to open Vista Media Center in Media-Only mode. This is a great tip if you have kids and you don’t want them to start messing with your PC:
Yougle: Watch Youtube Videos In Vista Media Center
I’ve spent some time this weekend trying to improve the brilliant Windows Vista Media Center. One feature that VMC is lacking is the ability to watch Youtube videos. The problem was easily solved with a few google searches and I found Yougle Vista.
Give Your Hard Drive A Spring Clean With CCleaner
If you’re a lazy user and don’t fancy spending a lot of time giving your PC a spring clean, then one utility that will be right down your alleyway is CCleaner. This amazing piece of freeware will in a flash spruce up your hard drive by removing files you no longer use, that are taking [...]
How To Remove Annoying Sample Music Folder From Vista Media Center
If you’re a Windows Media Center user, then you are have probably given up trying to remove the annoying Sample Photos, Sample Music and Sample Videos folders. It took me ages to find a way to find out how to remove them permanently from MCE, and the solution I found in the end was very [...]
File2HD – Download Anything To Your Hard Drive
There are many downloaders out there that let you download content from sites like YouTube, but most tend to only work with one particular site.
File2HD is an almost complete universal downloader that lets you download files/videos/music whatever from websites to your local PC. It will grab just about anything that is embedded in a webpage.
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