Get rid of unwanted files, cache and cookies

Panicwipe is a one click solution to delete unwanted files securely from your system. The freeware is able to delete programs, files, folders, registry entrys, IE cache, history and cookies with one simple click. You´ve got full control over the whole process of course: you select the data that you want to delete, everything else [...]

Make your passwords stronger with password chart

Password chart is an online service that helps you improve the quality of your passwords. The principle is pretty easy: You enter a phrase at the beginning which will be used to create the password chart. An example would be “Make your passwords stronger with passwordchart.com” or “http://www.ghacks.net/ is gr3at”. The password chart will be [...]

Guide To Optimizing WordPress Servers

After moving hosts for some reason my WP-Cache2 plugin stopped caching pages and I couldn’t work out why, so I’ve spent the last couple of hours looking for alternatives as I wanted to make sure I don’t get into trouble again with my new host, even though I have a VPS now rather than a [...]

Turn Photo Collections Into 3D Tours

Microsoft Research and the University of Washington have developed a tool that lets users convert their two-dimensional photos into a 3D tour. Called Photo Tourism, the software basically stitches together a large collection of photos taken using different angles via like points on the image. This is somewhat like the panorama-stitching software that comes with [...]

Get rid of sensitive data on Disks

Plextor will soon introduce a new kind of CD/DVD combo which you *don’t* want to mixup with your DVD burner. This new drive will apparently destroy all the data on any CD or DVD that you own in just 6 minutes.

I think that if you break de disk in half you pretty much make it [...]

5 Ways To Watch TV on the Computer

Over the last several years, computers have worked their way out of the office and into just about every aspect of our daily lives. Home computers are no longer boring beige boxes destined for a boring existence revolving around e-mails and personal finances. They can also be the key to our personal entertainment that allows [...]

Setting Up Remote Desktop in Windows XP

Why would you want to connect remotely to another desktop on your network, you ask? Say you are at home comfortably working in bed and your laptop doesn’t have the word processing application you need, but the computer in the living room does. If a wireless or wired network connects your computers, you can access [...]

FreeCycle: Get free stuff from your neighbors

I am sure that at some point you have heard of Craig’s List. Well, this is the free section x10.
Basically you enter your zip code and view items that people in your neighborhood are giving away. If you have “stuff” to get rid of, you can post them there and someone may come [...]

How to Repair a Scratched CD or DVD Round-Up

In the last 2 weeks I have seen several blogs and sites post about ways to fix your scratched CDs or DVDs. I agree that it’s a problem we all have, especially if our kids are messing around with them. So, we had to add our 2 cents.
In the spirit of efficiency, I’ve [...]

12 Tips to Achieve your Life Goals

Life changes are a love/hate deal We love that life could get better but HATE the process it takes to get there. That’s human nature I guess. There is no magic bullet for making life changes so I hope at least that you benefit from the list I personally implemented. [...]

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