With the increased use of digital cameras as well as the cameras that are in smart phones, there is a need for photo editing software to take these snapshots and turn them into great photographs.
Luckily there are a number of free software programs that are currently available. These give the user a wide variety of ways to tweak and manage the photos that they take.
Spam, unsolicited e-mail, junk e-mail — whatever you want to call it, has become the scourge of the Internet and a frequent complaint of Internet users. Not only is it time-consuming and annoying, it is an expensive and even potentially dangerous problem for individuals and businesses.
Microsoft has dominated for a long time, but there are some new alternative office suites available. The world of freeware and open source applications has grown.
There are now lots of alternatives that allow users to create documents, databases, and spreadsheets at lower costs. Many of the applications are free. It’s a growing trend for uses that are no longer interested in Microsoft Office Suites.
Finding a way to delete locked files on my Microsoft Windows system has always been a pain. I usually have many programs running on my computer at any given time. At some point I may need to delete a file that is in use by one of the programs, and Windows doesn’t easily provide a method to delete locked files.
A few years ago I stumbled across a small, free application that has helped me to unlock files in Windows so that I can delete those files. The best part about this free application is that it is also easy to use, and seems to have no problem with handling locked files.
I recently ran into a problem where I couldn’t open reports in a Microsoft Access database file. I have worked with Access databases for many years, but have never seen this issue before.
There are times where I use more than one computer at a time. To do this I simply use the remote desktop tool that is included with Microsoft Windows. What I didn’t know at the time, was using remote desktop tool caused the issue with my Access database
Windows 7 was a very well received Windows upgrade, but with any piece of computer software, there are things that can be changed around and tweaked to each individual user’s likes. That’s where Windows 7 tweaks come in. These are great and generally free ways to make your version the way that you want it.
There are many different ways to tweak your OS, but the ones below are all concerned with the appearance of Windows. You can change the way the system is running, but if you don’t know too much about computers then that’s best left to the experts. These tips are great ways to make your computer your own.
As with many of the major browsers that are used today, Google Chrome now supports graphics hardware acceleration. What this does is move most of the Web page graphics processing to the graphics card instead of the CPU. This reduces the CPU usage, while making the rendering of Web pages much quicker. I thought that the Chrome browser had enabled this feature by default, but to my surprise it wasn’t enabled.
With the operating systems available today, using the graphical user interface (GUI) of the operating system has become second-nature for me. It is very easy to copy, move, and delete files through the GUI interface than typing out the commands from a command line.
With all the user interface options in an operating system, there are many times where it can be more efficient to use the command line. In one such case, I wanted to create a simple method of deleting files that were older than seven days from a specified directory. While I could have written an application to do this, I wanted to make it more simple by using a batch file. With an additional executable available with the Windows 2003 SDK, I can easily delete files older than a number of days from DOS.
