Top 10 Sites To Occupy Your Idle Time
We have gathered a list of 10 of the most interesting websites you can spend your idle time on. Without you even noticing it, time will fly by and you would be left highly entertained.
Internet Tips
How To Create, Publish and Share Digital Stories
Imagine a program that helps you write your thesis, helps your son work on his science project, lets your daughter create comical animations, and lets your spouse create family videos and edit audio files. Your first response would probably be “That’s too much to ask.” Fortunately however, the developers behind Creaza thought differently and made [...]
Top 5 Tools To Protect You and Your Data
For most of us computers have now become in indispensable part of our lives. From social networking to shopping, computers are now the medium for many of our actions. For this reason our computers often store a lot of our private data which we need ensure is safe and protected at all times. You might [...]
PC tips
Improve Boot Times With Soluto
Want to boot your PC faster? Then Soluto is probably for you – a safe and simple way to reduce your boot time.
Increase The Number of Rows In Windows 7 Media Center EPG
W7MC is that the TV EPG only displays details for 7 channels at a time – read how to increase this.
Increase Windows Media Center Live TV Buffer Size
Ever paused a football match or tv show in Windows Media Center and then returned to find it playing rather than still paused? That’s because by default Windows Media Center only pauses live TV for 30 mins. This restriction probably made sense in the good old days of Windows XP Media Center, but now most [...]
MP3 & Video Tips
Increase The Number of Rows In Windows 7 Media Center EPG
W7MC is that the TV EPG only displays details for 7 channels at a time – read how to increase this.
How to Set Custom Hotkeys to iTunes
My main problems with iTunes include its sheer download size plus the amount of computer resources it hoards up. But what also bothers me is the lack of customizable hotkeys. You might wonder why somebody would want customizable hotkeys in the first place; the answer is that the same set of hotkeys might be used [...]
What To Look For Before Buying A Portable Media Player
Portable media players have redefined digital entertainment for a lot of gadget users. With time these devices are getting more feature packed and versatile. It all started with Apple’s cult defining iPod lineup of music players but now one can take his pick from a multitude of models from various manufacturers. A person who wants [...]
Other Recent Tips
Create Custom Windows 7 and Windows Vista Media Center Themes
I’ve been running Windows 7 Media Center for a few days now and I love the improvements that Microsoft have made over Windows Vista Media Center. The UI is so much slicker, although disappointingly Microsoft haven’t added any new Windows 7 Media Center themes. Luckily there is a great new tool called Media Center Studio [...]
Stop Windows Vista From Highlighting New Installed Programs
Like me do you find it annoying when you install a new program in Windows Vista and the program is automatically highlighted in the start menu, until you click on it? If so, then the guide below will stop this happening: Click on a blank part of your taskbar and select Properties In the popup [...]
Please Help One Tip A Day By Completing The Quick Survey
One of the ad networks that we work with need us to get 200 surveys completed by users. I know that many readers do not like the ads, but the income that they bring in is very important to me. If you could please take a couple of mins to complete the survey it would [...]
Faster WordPress With Web Optimizer Plugin
A 10 second search on Google will turn up numerous posts giving tips on how to speedup WordPress. In fact, a 10 second search on this site would probably do the same! If you’re tired of reading WordPress optimization posts that you don’t understand or are too hard to implement, then a quick way to [...]
How To Enable Windows 7 Aero Features
Windows 7 is the next release of Windows OS. It will replace Windows Vista on October 22nd. It iincludes many new featuures such as Windows Aero, which provide great new features such as Aero Peek, Aero Shake, Aero Snap and Aero Flip. Some of these features are not enabled by default with Windows 7 on [...]
How To Watch 15 Sep Champions League Football Free Online
The real football starts tonight when the European Champions League starts, piting the best soccer teams in Europe against each other in the best football cup competition. Football teams in action for the first time tonight include Man Utd, Chelsea, real Madrid, AC Milan and bayern Munich. If you want to watch 15 September Champions [...]
Increase P2P PC Speeds With Half Open Limit Fix Patch
Does your machine slow down significantly when you run a P2P or torrent application? This could be because on Windows machines, Microsoft has limited the number of connections that can be opened to try and stop machines that might be infected distributing malicious software on the internet. Luckily, there’s a patch that allows you to [...]
Download Files Up To 5 Times Faster
Years ago when we all had dialup connections internet download managers were all the rage, but when we got broadband they weren’t as necessary. However, now that filesizes are getting bigger and bigger it can still be handy using a internet download manager. Not only can these increase your download speeds, but they can also [...]
SimpleBackups Provides an Easy Way to Make Backup
Backing up your computer files is one of the most important things I can imagine. Doesn’t matter if you are a Blogger, Gamer or a Business professional. We all need to make backup of our important data every now and then. Data loss is very common now a days and according to Wikipedia it is [...]
Giganews Hits An Amazing 400 Days Newsgroup Retention
My favourite Usenet provider, Giganews, just made an amazing announcement -they now over 400 days of retention for their newsgroup service. That’s an amazing achievement. If you haven’t used Usenet yet then read on to learn why you should ditch your slow download speeds move over to Usenet, one of the webs best kept secrets. [...]
How To Watch World Cup Football Matches Online
Tonight is a huge night for World Cup Football qualifiers, with many countries learning their fate and seeing whether or not they will be going to South Africa next year for the 2010 Football World Cup. In total 25 games are being played in Europe and if you want to watch any of them free [...]
How To Remove Broken Songs From iTunes Library
I’ve just found an amazing free way to remove broken songs from iTunes. I have over 30k tracks in my music collection, so finding all broken songs i.e. those that have a ‘!’ mark next to them is nigh on impossible. With this clever little trick you can create a new playlist showing all the [...]
