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How To Watch Football Online For Free
The new football (soccer in the US) season kicked off this weekend, and already I’m very excited. My beloved Man Utd are playing Reading today. If you’re not rich enough or lucky enough to be able to watch games live on TV, either because you the games no being broadcast in your country [...]
12Aug2007 | Tony Williams | 13 comments | Continued
Important Vista Patches Now Available For Download
If you are a Windows Vista user then you should download ASAP the new Vista patches that have just been released, both for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Vista.
Two patches have been released:
compatibility and reliability patch
performance and reliability
Installing the patches will help improve Vista compatibility and will also improve performance.
9Aug2007 | Tony Williams | 0 comments | Continued
iCopy: Turn Your Printer And Scanner Into A Copier
If you have a Printer and a scanner, then you need to download iCopy to turn them into a photocopier, which I discovered via Digital Inspiration. iCopy, is free and allows you to scan a document using the scanner with the copies coming out of the printer. You can even select how [...]
8Aug2007 | Tony Williams | 4 comments | Continued
BitLet: Web-Based Torrent Downloader
Using BitTorrent clients can be daunting for novice users. If you’re not comfortable using BitTorrent clients, or maybe your on a PC where you can’t or don’t want to install a client then you should give BitLet a whirl.
BitLet is a web-based torrent downloader that works in a browser. To use BitLet all [...]
Create Your Own Wallpaper From Google Maps
You can never have too many wallpapers. That’s why I love this great tutorial from Amit, that walks through creating unique wallpapers from Google Maps images.
The guide utilizes free software, so anybody can make their own wallpapers in minutes. You’ll be surprised by how good the images are on Google Maps. You [...]
Monitor Your PC With WinPatrol
I’ve been using Vista since it came out, and I’ve been relying mainly on the inbuilt security to keep me safe. After reading about WinPatrol on the new gHacks site, I decided to install it straight away to give my machine an extra layer of protection.
WinPatrol increases the changes of catching malware [...]
How To Increase The Number Of Firefox Simultaneous Downloads
As soon as I spotted this tip on Lyte Byte I had to share it, as it solved a problem with Firefox that has been bugging me for a while now. Firefox has a limit on how many simultaneous files you can download from one server at time, which can be annoying if you’ve [...]
31Jul2007 | Tony Williams | 2 comments | Continued
Increase Vista Laptop Battery Life
Vista Battery Saver is a very useful app that I’ve been using for the last couple of days to improve the battery life of my laptop running Windows Vista. I wouldn’t say that it has improved my battery life by the claimed 70%, but it has delivered significantly better battery performance.
30Jul2007 | Tony Williams | 0 comments | Continued
Windows Clippings: Free Screenshot Software
Ever had problems capturing screenshots for presentations or a webpage? If so, then you should check out Window Clippings, which is one of the best Screen Capture tools on the market. Window Clippings is a powerful yet unobtrusive screen capture tool which includes full support for capturing and retaining Vista’s transparency and shadow [...]
28Jul2007 | Tony Williams | 3 comments | Continued
How To Add New Menu Items to Windows Explorer Right Click Menu
Gili has put together a nice clear guide on hos to add add add Move to Folder and Copy to Folder items to Windows Explorer right click menu. It requires a few registry changes, so please don’t even start making the necessary changes if you’re not comfortable editing your registry!
25Jul2007 | Tony Williams | 0 comments | ContinuedSubscribe For Tips!
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