Batch rename files and photos using ReNamer
Posted on June 18, 2008 at 5:25 am
Need to batch rename thousands of digital photos? File names have come a long way since the eight character days of old. Some may recall a time when a computer user was limited to eight letters, or numbers, when creating or editing a file. Thankfully, newer Windows systems have eliminated this ceiling.
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Speed up Internet browsing with Propel Accelerator
Posted on June 18, 2008 at 5:05 am
Looking for a way to speed up your Internet browsing? It is highly likely that many of you will remember using a dial-up Internet connection. Some of you may even still use one, especially those of you, who like me, live in a country where high speed broadband is just not readily available. I have spent the past two years using a GPRS EDGE connection via my cellular phone. Because of this I take any idea for increasing the speed of my surfing very seriously.
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How to create secured Outlook data files
Posted on June 17, 2008 at 5:21 am
Worried about Outlook security? If you are getting nightmares that somebody could be reading your emails when you are not around then this tip is for you. It could be your wife, mistress, or a random tech support that likes to scour Outlook .pst files for anything that they could make fun of, or worse, blackmail you.
To keep your email secrets deeply hidden on your computer, a password encrypted Outlook Data File is what you need.
First, open your Outlook and click File menu > New > Outlook Data File…
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Free computer security software you HAVE to get
Posted on June 17, 2008 at 5:04 am
Need free computer security software? Looking through the shelves of PC World and other computer stores, I see over-priced security programs filling the racks, and I think to myself, ‘I could get programs better than these for free.’
So now, to prevent you from getting absolutely ripped off, and blowing all your money on programs which are terrible, I have gathered together a list of security programs which can effectively protect your computer as much as (or better than) the likes of paid programs like McAfee or Norton.
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Slipstream Service Pack 3 into Windows XP using nLite
Posted on June 16, 2008 at 5:36 am
Want to slipstream the latest Service Pack3 into Windows XP? Windows XP is a mature operating system, it is almost seven years since the official launch in 2001. Like most things, as XP has got older it has put on weight and accumulated baggage. A fresh install of Windows XP will include a whole host of things no longer needed or relevant, such as redundant drivers, old system tools and non-required functionality.
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How to convert video files to PSP format?
Posted on June 16, 2008 at 5:09 am
You have a new shiny slim PSP and you have a bunch of movies that you want to watch on it. Now the question we need to solve is how are we going to play our video files with a PSP? With the freeware PSP Video Converter you can convert VOB, IFO, DAT, MOV, AVI, MPEG, MPEG4, 3GPP, 3GPP2, WMV, ASF video formats to PSP.
If you don’t have it yet, download it and install on your computer.
Open PSP Video Converter, click Add to choose the movie file you want to convert and click Open.
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