Speccy is an advanced System Information tool for your PC.
Speccy will give you detailed statistics on every piece of hardware in your computer. Including CPU, Motherboard, RAM, Graphics Cards, Hard Disks, Optical Drives, Audio support. Additionally Speccy adds the temperatures of your different components, so you can easily see if there´s a problem!
At first […]
MyUninstaller is an alternative utility to the standard Add/Remove applet of Windows operating system. It displays the list of all installed application, and allows you to uninstall an application, delete an uninstall entry, and save the list of all installed applications into a text file or HTML file.
MyUninstaller also provides additional information for most installed […]
Speccy is an advanced System Information tool for your PC.
Speccy will give you detailed statistics on every piece of hardware in your computer. Including CPU, Motherboard, RAM, Graphics Cards, Hard Disks, Optical Drives, Audio support. Additionally Speccy adds the temperatures of your different components, so you can easily see if there´s a problem!
At first glance, […]
BlackBox is a utility designed to deliver precise details on the core components of your computer to the maximum.
As well as providing you with you with in-depth information about hardware such as the processor, memory modules, mainboard, hard drives and video card, it also offers the opportunity to assess critical parameters such as clock speeds […]
Google Reader has already a handy feature to share interesting articles and blog posts in an easy way: the Share link that appears below each item. With this link, as we explained before, Google Reader marks those items as shared and puts them online on an automatically generated web page. However I tend to star items more than to share them - I just find it easier to manage starred articles later on when I want to read or reuse them for any purpose, like Favorites. And the good thing is that starred items can also be shared… even on Twitter! All you need is three user accounts (one for Google Reader, one for Twitter and one for Twitterfeed) and follow these simple steps:
1. The starred items feed is set to Private by default, so first of all you need to go to Settings > Folders and tags and mark it as “Public” from the drop-down menu.
2. Click the View public page link. This will open a website generated by Google Reader with all the items you’ve starred. Right click the Atom feed link and copy the URL.
3. Go to your Twitterfeed account and set up a new feed with the URL you just copied. Tweak settings according to your needs (update frequency, post prefix, number of posts to be published) but try not to take over your follower’s timeline with too many starred items.
4. Twitterfeed will take a while to check your feed and update it for the first time. From that moment on, all the items you star on Google Reader will be automatically published on Twitter.
Youtube File Hack is a small and intelligent program that aims to ease up everything in saving youtube videos to your hard disk using any web browser.
How to Download Youtube Files in different ways? A Right-Click Menu entry will be added to your IE Context Menu or a Bookmarks Option in Google Chrome Web […]
Windows: Do you find yourself writing the same bits of text all the time, day after day? Then you need PhraseExpress, a highly configurable tool that helps you insert frequently used text automatically on any Windows app. PhraseExpress works with keyboard shortcuts and is very easy to configure and use. A handy tool that will save you loads of time!
iPhone: TweetDeck is one of the most popular desktop Twitter clients out there - and at long last an iPhone version of the app has arrived. It hasn’t half bad either. TweetDeck displays everything that’s going on on Twitter in a highly organized way. As with the PC and Mac versions, TweetDeck for iPhone uses a system of columns to make it easy for you to track who’s doing what.
Mac: EyeConnect (now updated to version 1.6.5) is a media server application. By scanning your network for UPnP AV digital media devices, it can detect any available device to which it can serve multimedia content, and thus share all your Mac’s video, TV, music and photo content with your TV or stereo. EyeConnect is compatible with pretty much any media content including DivX, Xvid, WMV, JPG, iTunes library etc.
AkelPad is an open source editor for plain text. It is designed to be a small and fast.
Features:
*Single window mode (SDI), multi window mode (MDI);
*Editing of files, which size is more than 64K (generally speaking, size isn´t theoretically limited);
*Full support of Unicode strings on Unicode systems (NT/2000/XP/2003);
*Support of Unicode codepages (UTF-16 little endian, UTF-16 […]
This program allows you to synchronize more than 2 folders with just few clicks. It´s very simple, but you first must read the included documentation.
Features:
* multiple folder handling (2 or more).
* the folder analysis can be modified on your needs.
* multithreaded.
* optimal file multithreaded copy engine (by using temporary file and/or by overwriting files).
* configurable. […]
As Jon already pointed out, today is Clean Out Your Computer Day, which makes it the perfect time to review some useful applications and routines for spring cleaning your Windows computer. That said, I hope you don’t limit these routines to one single day every year; all computers can benefit largely from frequent cleaning sessions, in terms of drive space, speed and performance. Here we go!
1. If you install new software apps quite often, you should probably check the list of installed programs on your system and start cleaning there. Ask yourself whether you still need that 500 MB program you haven’t used lately, and don’t be afraid to uninstall anything you don’t need anymore.
2. After months browsing the web, your browser history files and cache memory will have surely reached a huge size. Trim those down the easy way by using the browser’s own history manager (Tools > Clear Recent History in Firefox) or using a third-party app such as Free Windows Sweeper.
3. Check the folder where you save all the files you download from the web, and make sure you clean them up. Keeping a program’s executable file after it’s been installed is just a waste of space!
4. Use disk analysis tools like SpaceSniffer to locate the largest files and folders on your system, and decide whether you need to keep them or not. Maybe it would be a good idea to store those gigabytes of old photos somewhere else…
5. Last but not least, use your favorite cleaning tool to get rid of any other additional junk data your computer has been storing in the background, such as Windows temporary files, recent document lists, log files and more.
These are by no means the only tips we’ve we’ve got about computer spring cleaning. If all this isn’t enough for you, check our previous posts about how to recover hard drive space, five tools to clean up your computer, cleaning tips for a faster PC, how to free up disk space with Scanner, how to use a USB memory device to clean your PC and how to configure advanced options in CCleaner.
What about you? Do you have any other personal routines for computer maintenance?