Weekly Download: Personalize Your Icons @ Leo’s
The Windows Icon selection leaves a lot to be desired, not to mention it seems like most of them are very similar to other icon choices you have. You can make Icons but you usually need some third party program and unless you know what you’re doing it’s going to look like a bunch of little Picasso’s, or digital amoebas all over your… Continue reading
Weekly Download: Bugnosis
If you remember I talked about Web Bugs n yesterday’s security tip. To get everyone up-to-speed, web bugs are small gifs (usually) that are hidden in certain websites (in banners and other graphics) or HTML emails. Like cookies, web bugs are placed in your browser and track you, but web bugs also share your information with other web bugs you may run across while surfing the web… Continue reading
Download of the Week: Startup Monitor
Don’t you just hate when programs find their way into your Taskbar and you have no idea how they got there. I use my msconfig command every so often and under the startup tab I’m always surprised to see a couple of entries in here that I didn’t know about . How did they get there? I… Continue reading
Weekly Download: DrvClonerXP
This week’s download was actually sent to us by a thoughtful reader, and he must have been reading my mind because I’ve been looking for a free program like this for a while. I’ve always said that with a regular backup strategy and a good drive image you don’t have to worry about losing your hard drive. Backup software isn’t that hard to find and varies in… Continue reading
Weekly Download: Timeleft
I have been so busy around the office lately it’s ridiculous. I feel like the poster child for multi-tasking. Sometimes it’s so hard to keep up with all my appointments and deadlines that I’m either late or seriously late. Throughout the day, week, and even year there are dates and events that you don’t want sneaking up on you—Did I back up the database, or… Continue reading
Weekly Download: Desktop Sidebar
Why Wait for Microsoft’s Longhorn?
If you’re not familiar with the term “Longhorn” it’s the name of the next version of Microsoft’s Operating System. It promises many noticeable changes to the GUI (Graphical User Interface) we’ve come to love (or loathe), and one of the most anticipated is the Desktop Sidebar. This Sidebar is basically a robust toolbar that is extremely flexible and you… Continue reading
Well it’s finally here—Windows Media Player 10. I know, I know, it may not be the favorite player for a lot of you, but you might change your tune. The new version brings some pretty exciting features to the table, and I for one am glad to see it. In order to get the updated player all you have to do is a simple… Continue reading
This download goes nicely with this security tip…
http://www.worldstart.com/tips/tips.php/196
In the article I was throwing out some tips that can stop other users from installing Peer-2-Peer (P2P) applications on your PC. P2P allows many users to share any number of computer programs, movies, music, etc over the Internet via some application without the consent of the companies that create the media. An example of some P2P powerhouses… Continue reading
Weekly Download: 3DMark
I admit I am a video game junky, and I’ve been playing them since I was a kid. I’ll never forget playing defender on my neighbor’s Atari 2600—I caught the sickness then, and I never quite got over it (how pathetic). New PC games are very high-tech and super realistic. They completely immerse you in the fantasy that the game is attempting to project. In addition, the… Continue reading
Weekly Download: myFavorites
I love using My Favorites in Internet Explorer (IE). Whenever I find something on the web that I may want to visit again, off it goes to My Favorites. If I have to do some research I almost always create a folder in IE’s My Favorites, then I dump all the sites I have visited into it.
However, IE’s My Favorites has some limitations… Continue reading
Download of the Week: Phoenix Converter
This weeks’ download comes from Dante products, and is called the Phoenix converter. It’s a conversion program that can take one unit of measurement and convert it into another. For instance, if you want to know how many Kilometers are in 350 miles, choose the type of measurement you’re looking for, plug in the value, click “calculate” and presto change-o… Continue reading
Download of the Week: YahooPOPs
Ah the good ol’ days—a gallon of gas was a buck, River Dance was popular, and you could open your Yahoo mail in Outlook Express. Then in April of 2002, Yahoo stopped their POP3 support, forcing its customers to access their email on the web or pay $20.00 a year for the POP3 access (along with a lot of other cool… Continue reading
Weekly Download: Cryptainer LE
I have something today I think the 95,98, and ME users will really appreciate—a file with encryption. The reason I mentioned the older Operating Systems is because the NT filing system in Win 2K and XP has its own encryption built in. I always thought that the older 9x OSs and ME got the shaft when it comes to file security and I have been looking… Continue reading
Weekly Download: Autoruns
This weeks’ download is from a great site called SysInternals.com . Among the list of great freeware I found a little gem I thought you might enjoy: Autoruns.
Autoruns is a program that shows you a list of everything set to autorun at startup. This isn’t ground breaking news to my savvy readers, but don’t be… Continue reading
Weekly Download: Clipomatic
If you’re anything like me, you spend a lot of time on the PC typing various documents throughout the day. Anything to help speed up things up is a blessing. In email I use signatures to answer common questions I’ve answered a hundred times already and it really helps.
In Microsoft Office suite there’s a nice clipboard but you can only use it in Office… Continue reading
Weekly Download: CD Slide Show Generator
I burned a bunch of pictures to CD-R then sent it off to my mother-in-law. She eagerly popped it into her computer in anticipation of seeing pictures of her grandkids, but then couldn’t figure out how to view them. This is no longer a problem thanks to a free Windows XP Power Toy called CD Slide Show Generator.
Now when I burn… Continue reading
Weekly Download: Lens Magnifying Glass
Did you ever run into a website or a document that was really small and hard to view. My dad has this problem a little more often than I do, and I catch him using the Magnifier that comes with Windows from time to time. The Magnifier works pretty good for blowing up images, but as with a lot of built… Continue reading
Weekly Download: Iron Key
Being in the Internet game I hear a lot of people concerned about hackers intercepting their messages and wondering how safe transmissions on the web are. It’s true that email isn’t the most secure form of transmission out there, but it is easy and in most cases very convenient to use. As a general rule if you wanted to send sensitive data across… Continue reading
Weekly Download: Password Unmasker
How often have you forgotten your passwords, thanks to the option to save passwords in windows this isn’t so such of a problem. Except for the fact that after using the password that pops up when you type in your username for a while you might forget it. The password that does pop up when you type your username is all doted out… Continue reading
Weekly Download: Netomat
The download for this week is a unique title that really does its own thing. It’s similar to a small website, but with a very simple interface and editing tools. The program allows you to import pictures, text, sounds, links, slide shows, even make a recording of your own voice to put onto the page, and basically post it on the web.
The features… Continue reading
Weekly Download: Primo PDF
I’ve always thought that Adobe’s Acrobat Reader was a great document distribution program, but a little pricey for what I would do with it. PDFs (Portable Document Format) are really good for creating documents that you want everyone to be able to view as you intended.
For example: you want to create a form for a Charitable bake sale and you want people… Continue reading
Download of the Week: Batch Bandwidth Monitor
It’s that time of the week again: that time where I go out and painstakingly search out downloads for you. This week is no exception and I believe you will enjoy what I’ve chosen for you. Have you ever wondered how fast your Internet connection is? Not what your ISP tells you it is, but rather what kind of bandwidth you’re really getting.… Continue reading
Weekly Download: Roboform
I always have a hard time remembering passwords. With so many accounts at so many different sites it’s impossible to keep track of them all. I try to remember all these passwords and usernames that go along with these accounts and wonder if I used capitals letters or numbers. Arrrgh!
One way around this is to use the very unsecured practice of always… Continue reading
Are you a little tired of the boring, hum drum run of the mill emails you’ve been dealing with since you’ve been online? Did you ever use the stationery included with your email client and determined that it’s as exciting as talcum powder? Did you ever wish that there was a website with tons of different downloadable stationery and things to dress up your email? Wouldn’t it be nice… Continue reading
Download of the Week: PrintFolder 2.1
Did you ever want a list of the folders on your PC? We get email all the time asking how to print a list of files in a folder. Maybe you need help deciding what should stay and what should go, or how about printing an index of a folder to use to keep your backups in order. Well want… Continue reading
Download of the Week: The Cleaner
This free utility for cleaning up your e-mail is extremely popular.
You know the drill. You get an e-mail from someone and it’s full of carets (>>>), badly formatted, and basically a mess.
Well, copy and paste that badly formatted text into this utility, click the smily face, and it will remove all
I love it when I find a cool picture or graphic to use as a wallpaper image. The only problem I run into is that I usually find too many pictures to use as wallpaper and can never make up my mind. So what I end up doing is changing my wallpaper constantly— I’d say I change my wallpaper on the average of once every day or two. There’s still… Continue reading
