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
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Check for Windows software updates with SUMO
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
File Secure Free is a security tool for Windows
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
The Weather Channel app for Windows
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
HD Speed: Test hard drive performance
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
Need more WiFi Reception? Try Netgear’s WiFi Booster for Mobile
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
Add direct Wikipedia look-up options to Google Chrome
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
Running low on disk space? Find the largest files with Folder Size
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
Move any application to the Windows System Tray
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
Get all your video card information you ever need with GPU-Z
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