Computers
Increase the button size on Windows 7 Tablet PCs
Windows 7 wasn’t designed for the touch screen of a tablet PC. The buttons and scroll bars are far too small to easily use Windows 7 on a tablet PC. It’s all too easy to click the small Close button rather than the small Minimize button. Thankfully, there’s a couple of easy tweaks to make the buttons and scroll bars much larger on a Windows 7 tablet PC.
A great home page for a Touch Screen browser
Choosing a home page for a browser is a very personal affair. For a Touch Screen it needs to have large buttons and load quickly. For a Touch Screen browser we’ve grown to love the 200Linx homepage.
Use Dropbox to send large media files
On voato we often write about neat tools and web apps for sending large media files such as MP3 and video. However, using an existing Dropbox account, sending a large media file couldn’t be easier. Simply use the sharing features of Dropbox to get a link to a file you’ve already uploaded using Dropbox. Life couldn’t be easier…
Quickly create Flash content with Empressr
Epressr is a neat web application that lets you quickly create online Flash content for your website, or rich presentation material.
You can upload your own media assets such as video, audio, images and animations to the Empressr media library, import them directly from other sites like Flickr, Google, Yahoo and Photobucket or link to digital media from around the web. It’s ideal for creating engaging content with charts, tables and audio.
Semi-productive online tasks to avoid doing real work
Sometimes real work seems too much effort. Motivation has taken a beating. If you’re a home worker, it’s easy to start tinkering when you should be working. In this post I give you a bunch of my top ideas to be semi-productive instead of slaving over real work.
Keep your public wifi sessions secure with Hotspot Shield
Windows and Mac. Even password-protected and encrypted public wifi connections aren’t as secure as you think. There remains the potential for a 12 year old prodigy to steal your passwords and credit card details. Also, with ISPs being forced by government agencies to publish details of your surfing habits, you may want to think about securing all your browsing and downloading habits. With this simple secure VPN solution from Hotspot Shield, you can be sure your browsing and socialising is secure from prying eyes, your ISP, and even your employer. More >
The best free software download sites
In this post I’ve rounded up the very best sites on the internet to download free apps giving you access to over a 1000 free applications. These download sites for free software contain really good lists of tried and tested applications. The download sites below have links to the very best free applications, utilities, system tools and online apps. If you can’t download the free app you need from these lists, it probably doesn’t exist.
Discover what the web says about you
Keeping a grip on how the web sees you is more difficult than ever with the proliferation of social networks.
With this great website from Yasni, you can find out exactly how the web sees you. With more and more recruitment agencies turning to the web and Facebook to check job applicants, it’s a good idea to make sure they only see what you want them to see! You can also discover alter-egos and celebrities with the same name as you. More >
Send large files of any size, anywhere with isendr
If you need to send a large file over the internet, email is probably not the best way. To send a large file voato towers has been using this fantastic free web app for quite a while now and can really vouch for it. iSendr is an on-demand direct file transfer system to send large files over the internet. It makes sending any size file between two people as simple as clicking a link. More >
Find folders quickly using Favourite Folders in Windows 7
I came across this great little feature in Windows 7 to add folders and locations to the “Favourites” in My Computer / Explorer. With this neat little shortcut, you can add any folder you use often, and save you having to continually hunt around for it. The favourite folder is always available when you open or save a file in any other application – ideal for opening and saving files in Office applications. More >
The best free Sticky-Note apps
Throw the post-it notes away and replace them with virtual sticky-notes on your desktop. Sticky-notes complement your to-do list by nagging you to do the tasks you really need to do today. I give you five of my favourite free desktop sticky-notes tools. More >
Rip and download DRM free music from Spotify
This guide shows how to rip and download DRM-free music from Spotify. The music we’ll download from Spotify is DRM free so you can play the tracks on your favoured MP3 players. In order to rip from Spotify you’ll need a piece of $20 software, plus an Open (free) account with Spotify. There is some reported success by decoding the Spotify locally cached files but the method we’ll use is to simply capture the music stream from Spotify.
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