Free Download Microsoft Color Control Panel Applet for Windows XP

When you manage digital photos, images, graphics and pictures on Windows XP computer, what you really need is consistent and accurate color from file to screen to print in order to achieve spectacular and great results for digital photography, especially if you’re professional photographer or designer. Microsoft has now provides free Microsoft Color Control Panel [...]

Convert DVDs into Avi

As you might know I have a modded xbox that has a replaced bigger hard drive and I use it to watch movies from my Xbox Media Center. I dislike watching downloaded movies on my computer and transfer them to the Xbox via ftp to watch them on tv instead. I was looking for a [...]

Record any sound on your computer

I always thought that it should be theoretically possible to record any sound that you are hearing on your computer. Sometimes solutions for selected programs exist but I was looking for a free program that could record any sound no matter the source it was coming from. This can be for example quite useful if [...]

VirtuaWin, a powerful free virtual desktop manager

I've tried quite a few desktop managers, and VirtuaWin is my favorite one, so far. The Open Source tool comes with many interesting features.
I didn't try all of them, though. What I like most about this tool is that it allows you to switch quite fast between virtual desktops and applications. Working with VirtuaWin is [...]

Enable Previews in Windows Vista Folders with Preview Pane

If you’re using Microsoft Office 2007, you will notice that it has a nice and handy feature called previews. The previewers which supported by the preview handlers allow users to view or display the contents of documents, emails, messages, attachments, workbooks, videos, audios, presentations and other supported files on screen, without having to open it. [...]

Beginners Guide to Linux Desktops

If you are a Linux enthusiast, chances are good that you already know everything I am about to say. Chances are even better that you tried a variety of desktop environments before settling on one. If you are a newer Linux user though, say, from the Ubuntu or SuSE crowd, it may be that [...]

Ubuntu Quicktip - adding extra fonts to your Ubuntu install

If you’re in the mood for a few new fonts to play around with, here’s how you go about adding them to your system.
First, you’ll have to make sure you have extra repositories added.
Then, open up a terminal session (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal) and type the following:
sudo apt-get install gsfonts-x11 msttcorefonts
This will install Microsoft’s [...]

Turn Off or Disable User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista

User Account Control (UAC) is a new security feature in Windows Vista that requires all users to log on and run in standard user privileges mode instead of as administrator with full administrative rights, thus prevent unauthorized or accidental changes that could destabilize the computers or allows virus and malware to exploit the system-level privileges [...]

How to bypass Internet Censorship

If you are looking for a comprehensive, and I mean really really comprehensive, guide on bypassing internet censorship you might want to take a look at the excellent guide written by Freerk. The guide is divided into two parts; The first analyzes different methods to censor information on the internet and the second part describes [...]

Firefox add-on to discover media links

I’m currently using the Video Downloader add-on for firefox to download videos from websites such as youtube or google video. It is working perfectly on those websites but has limitations when it comes to different type of websites that use MMS or RealMedia links for their movies for example.
Firefox add-on to discover media links
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