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Add effects to your webcam during chats

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Sarah
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Want to surprise your friends, family or loved one during a webcam chat? Maybe add a different background, a face mask or an unbelievably funny hat? Then Webcam Effects may be the software that you should take a closer look … Continue reading →

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Check for Windows software updates with SUMO

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Sarah
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One of the things that you need to do to make sure your computer is protected security-wise is to  always run the latest version of installed applications on your system. While you can do that manually as well, you would … Continue reading →

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File Secure Free is a security tool for Windows

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Sarah
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In my humble opinion, every computer user should have access to various security related tools on the system. This includes a program to backup files and folders, one to encrypt files to protect them from prying eyes, and a program … Continue reading →

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The Weather Channel app for Windows

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Sarah
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If you like your weather reports to be delivered to you directly on your desktop you may be really like how Microsoft is handling that in its upcoming Windows 8 operating system. The Metro startpage that you see when you … Continue reading →

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HD Speed: Test hard drive performance

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Sarah
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How fast is the hard drive that you have installed on your computer? How fast the USB Flash Drive or memory card? If you can’t answer those questions but would like to know the answer, or want to test if … Continue reading →

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Need more WiFi Reception? Try Netgear’s WiFi Booster for Mobile

Posted on July 24, 2012 by Sarah
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If you are living in a large home, or in an apartment with thick walls or lots of interfering devices, you may have noticed that the quality of your wireless connection may not be as good as advertised. Sometimes, it … Continue reading →

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Add direct Wikipedia look-up options to Google Chrome

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Sarah
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When you are on the Internet you may sometimes stumble upon names, locations or terms that you want to know more about. Say you are reading an article about Mozart and want to know more about Vienna at the time … Continue reading →

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Running low on disk space? Find the largest files with Folder Size

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Sarah
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Is your hard drive notoriously low on disk space? If it is filling up faster than you can delete files you may need some help to free up enough disk space to not be bothered by the low disk space … Continue reading →

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Move any application to the Windows System Tray

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Sarah
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Some programs do not come with options to minimize their program window to the Windows system tray. What you end up doing in those cases is to minimize them to the taskbar instead, where they will stay until closed by … Continue reading →

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Get all your video card information you ever need with GPU-Z

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Sarah
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Most computer users usually do not need to access information that an application like GPU-Z provides them with. The free portable software for Windows is a tool that displays detailed information about the system’s video card. Next to the cards … Continue reading →

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