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Is your download speed as fast as it should be? If you recall the days of the “speed demon” 56k dial-up modem, waiting on something as simple as a small digital picture file seemed to take eons. This is when you would get up from your computer and wander off to perform various other tasks to pass the time. Now that more people have higher speed connections (Cable, DSL, Fiber), as of late, one would imagine that downloading a trial copy...

This set contains some Sexy Lady Silhouettes brushes for Photoshop.Downl...

This set contains 30 Sunbrush Custom Shapes for Photoshop.Downl...

This is my Zuney Blue Theme. Its basically the blue version of the Zune Final theme but the black parts are lighter, and I didn’t know about it at the time. I scratched my name out, so thats what the red is. No, I’m not crazy or paranoid. I just dont want people to see my account name, because it might offend some people.Downl...

This may offer a bit of comfort to some with slower broadband connections. For US internet users, your tax dollars have now proven that the speed of broadband is 50% slower than what it’s claimed to be. For those that would say, "Did we need to spend a bunch of tax money to figure something out everybody already knew?" In fact, yes. The problem needed to be identified in absolute fashion so plans can be made to actually do something about it. Saying something is slow and proving it as such are two different things. And now...

In the past, I have written about how the copy-paste function works in a lot of places even though it may not be ‘advertised’ as a function. The same can be said about the undo function (Ctrl + Z). For example, you can use this function: in just about any application text boxin browser text boxesin find and replace dialogslots of other places… try it Unfortunately, many times the remembered undo level is only one deep (this is not always the case though) but this is still better than nothing. So give the undo function (again,...

If you fear your closets, you are not alone. Many closets contain everything from shoes, clothing, sports equipment, and hangers, to jackets, forgotten winter jackets, and more hangers. The long and short of it is, behind that door lies a potential tidal wave of things that you may have no clue as to what they are. While a little unnerving to think about, the same can be true of your hard drive. Over a period of years, you hard drive...

Another set contains 10 Tattoo Photoshop brushes for Design. Brushes made in Adobe Photoshop CS4.Downl...

This set contains 10 Tattoo Photoshop brushes for Design. Brushes made in Adobe Photoshop CS4.Downl...

PS: For ObjectDock - For this purpose that has turned out how at me, it is necessary to use many empty shortcut (a blank address and empty PNG)Downl...

Firmware, in generic terms, is "fixed software" in an electronic device. Your CD/DVD drive for example, has firmware. Your digital camera has firmware. Portable navigation devices (PND for short) has firmware. Even remote controls for televisions have firmware. I’m the type of person that likes having the latest up-to-date firmware for whatever electronic device I use. But over the years I’ve had to train myself not to update if there isn’t any issue present with the way the device works. Example: In one instance a few years...

If you have a damaged CD or DVD which you need to recover data on and trying to copy data from Windows Explorer is not yielding successful results, a tool you might want to try is IsoPuzzle. Short Description:The goal of this program is to recover as much as possible data of damaged, bad burned or scratched CDs or DVDs.This version supports only data CDs and DVDs with sectorsize of 2048 byte – Audio CD, VCD and SVCD are not supported. IsoPuzzle reads the disc in the drive and creates an ISO file with any data it can recover....

A long while ago, I ran a tip which basically said putting a candy dish near your computer is a bad idea because you will end up munching on it without thinking. So as an alternative to the candy dish, here are some ideas of some stuff you might want to have instead: NothingLow Salt Nuts (cashews for me)Raisins / Dried FruitBananasPeppermints (if you must have something sweet) Of course, some of these may leave your hands sticky so having a moist cloth nearby might come in handy. Did I miss something? If your computer snack...

Evernote is a free online service that lets you save notes and access them from anywhere. It offers a client software in PC and mobile devices so that you can access your notes on a wide range of supported devices.The idea behind Evernote is simple, for users to be able to save and edit notes with images, text, clips, audio, PDF and other formats online. Since the data is saved in the Cloud, users don’t have to transfer files if they...

This set contains Smoke Brushes with hogh resolution for Photoshop 7 and higher.Downl...

Windows 7 (7600 RTM) Basic Theme - Dark Blue by KI5 Follow this easy steps to install my theme/style ********************************************** 1.Run ux theme patcher for your windows 7 RTM >for 32bit edition use the UniversalThemePatcher-x86.exe>for 64bit edition use the UniversalThemePatcher-x64.exe (both suplied with this theme and should be run as administrator) 2.Patch all 3 files, and restart your PC 3.Open windows explorer...

For those that use an @aol.com email address, you might have noticed an email that appeared to be spam, but it wasn’t. It came from the sender "FooterSettlement" with subject line "OFFICIAL NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF CLASS ACTION AND PROPSED SETTLEMENT", and looked like this:This is not spam. In short, what it means is that you now have the ability to opt out of footer advertisements in the emails you send. All you have to do it login to your...

Have you ever changed the priority of a process in the Task Manager?Do you have to do it often?Do you want your database server or media player to know the priority it should work with? If so, you have two choices: do it manually every time or automate/manage the process. If you prefer the latter then a tool you should check out is Prio Process Priority Saver. Once installed, you just set the priority preferences of the processes you want to modify and then make sure the option to save is checked. Then the next time the program...

I often go to torrent search engines like mininova.org or isohunt.com to look for torrent files that I want to download. Sometimes the torrent files on one site are not available, but are on another site and I’ve found it necessary to visit multiple torrent sites – Google and Bing are just not that good when it comes to indexing torrents. Lately, I discovered a great site that searches multiple torrent search engines so users can search...

Smiley and Pencil brushes for illustrator CS4 (.PDF file).Download h...

Brushpack contains Light stroke brushes for Photoshop.Download h...

Almost the same as the GTK theme except that there are no rounded menubars, because it can’t be styled in XP. Also, don’t stare blind on how it compares to my other styles (looking too similar that is. Just look at the smaller details if you can.)Downl...

Here is an interesting and clever use of Twitter: remotely controlling your computer. In a couple of articles recently posted on Lifehacker, you can use TweetMyPC and TweetMyMac (respectively) to send commands to your computer from anywhere you have Internet access. The commands are limited (obviously) but you are able to do useful things like send a shutdown command or create your own custom commands which can do anything you like such as launch automated tasks. Of course there are dangers with using something like this as...

Whenever you have a large number of folders, inevitably some will be more important than others such that you want them to stand out in the list. Typically, you accomplish this by using special characters, caps or punctuation in the folder name. An alternate way to do this would be to change the color and/or icon of the folder. A free tool to make this process simple is Folder Marker. Folder icons can be customized using the standard Windows method, but with Folder Marker Free you can do this on the fly from the right-click...

Windows Explorer does just about anything you would need it to with respect to file management, however one complaint you may see people have is that it lacks speed when doing file copies. If this is something you have noticed, a utility you should try is TeraCopy. TeraCopy is a program optimized for doing one thing- copying files fast. Personally, I do a lot of work with virtual machines (copying, moving, etc.) which have a file size of at least 8 GB so this looks like something I am going to give a try. Does anyone already...

If you are a Windows XP user but really like the visual glass effects of Windows Vista, then Border Skin is for you. Border Skin is a new free program that skins the windowsborders by skins composed of png images with the supportof 2 famous windows vista & 7 effects ( Blur and reflection ) Nothing much to really add here. When you run Border Skin, there is a control panel available in your system tray which allows you to control the settings. Additionally, you can set program exclusions in the event this effect causes problems...

LCD monitors are great. No question. They’re thin, can be moved around easily, don’t use much electricity, don’t produce static when turned on or off, have a crisp picture that stays crisp, and so on. However there is one failing of LCD monitors and a big one at that. It’s a lack of vertical resolution. I’ll explain. Let’s say you want a monitor that has a 2048-pixel-wide resolution. Yes, this is an insane amount of pixels. How big, as in physically big, do you have to go with an LCD to get this? The answer is 21 inches. However,...

The best box that Apple makes is the Mac Pro. The best box that Dell makes is the Precision Workstation, commonly abbreviated as PW. Both are business machines first and foremost. It is very easy to configure either to run you $20,000 for final cost. How to do it? Simple. Check off every single possible option you can throw in when configuring it.First, the Mac Pro.This is an 8-core system (two 2.93GHz Quad Core Intel Xeons) stuffed with...

I just bought a Dell Inspiron mini 10v. It will be arriving either later this week or early next week. After examining all the different ways I could purchase it, I decided to go refurb. Why? Because it’s nearly $100 less than new. For a laptop that’s in the sub-$500 range, $100 is a pretty big consideration. In my situation, I paid 23% less compared to buying new, and I got more for the money besides that. With netbooks you either love or hate them, and you certainly don’t purchase one for speed and power. You want it for...

The old saying goes “if it isn’t broken, don’t try to fix it”. This is a good approach to existing, functional device drivers on your system. However, if you are installing a new device going with the most recent stable driver is probably the best bet. Whenever you purchase a retail device, it almost always comes with a driver CD. Instead of using this CD, download the latest release from the manufacture’s site instead. More times than not, you will find your CD has an older version because it was packaged and shipped X months...

In a very short period of time I’ve found that in order to get along with a netbook properly, there’s 10 things you absolutely must do. 1. Use Google Chrome Those who know my browser preferences find this a bit of a shock being that I’m a diehard Firefox user, because I’ve made it no secret that I can’t stand the Chrome web browser. On a netbook however it’s a totally different story. Chrome gives you the most usable space for your monitor...

For the observant, you’ll notice that a ton of computers are made in the nation of China these days. This is occurring so much that some people absolutely refuse to buy anything made from there, similar to the all-too-familiar MADE IN TAIWAN labels on so many products of the 1980s and 1990s. On the computing front, many refer to Chinese-made computers as "those Foxconn-made pieces of sh*t". The Mac mini, Macbook Air, Macbook, iMac and Macbook Pro are all manufactured in China. For those who have ever ordered one of the aforementioned...

Note: There is a video at the bottom of this post of my 10v, so be sure to check that out. As I had been saying many times since 2009 started, my plan was to get a netbook as my next laptop. So I bought a refurbished Dell Inspiron Mini 10v. My overall opinion of the unit is that it’s a decent solid build and is definitely the right size. However the one thing that I absolutely must point out is that without a 6 cell battery it’s not worth owning. Since it’s a challenge at best to run high-powered, high-graphic apps (like many...

For some reason the hibernate function is not enabled in either Windows Vista or Windows 7 by default (even if your BIOS supports it). On top this, enabling this power saving feature isn’t as simple as marking a check box. If you want to make use of this rather nice function then here is how to do it in Windows Vista and Windows 7. I find this feature especially useful on laptops because it essentially allows you to snapshot your current session and resume from exactly where you left off. Additionally, the bootup time from...

You’re probably reading this article if you were going to find the calculator on your Windows XP machine to figure out some important calculation. After a bit of searching, you probably realized that your calculator is missing! Pretty weird right? Well this can happen for a number of reasons, but basically your calculator is gone! If you recently installed a service pack to XP, such as SP2 or SP3, that could be the culprit. Either way,...

Sometimes even when you transfer MP3 files to the right MUSIC folder on your Sony PSP or MP3 player, the Sony device won’t be able to play it. It could be a sampling rate mismatch or the bit rate of the file, so often times you need to convert the MP3 file to a bit rate supported by the Sony player. Sony also promotes its own music player/converter software for free – the SonicStage. With this tool, you can convert the MP3 file to a compatible...