Published in November 28th, 2008
Just a quick note: DirectX 11 will be built into Windows 7. Previously the word on the street was that it would not be shipped with Windows 7. But now it will be. So this is good news. We also hear that DirectX 11 will be available for Vista users. We will keep you updated [...]
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Published in November 28th, 2008
The K-Lite Mega Codec Pack has pretty much all the codecs you will ever need. The pack includes Windows Media Player classic and a ton of codecs. We have provided the list of included codecs below. If you still can’t play your movie file with these, then it will probably never work. Player: – Media [...]
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Published in November 27th, 2008
SpaceMonger is a very useful tool for being able to visually see how your disk space is being consumed. It creates a graphical representation of your hard drive, showing the disk usage in blocks. This is a very easy way to see where disk space is being used and where it is being wasted. If [...]
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Published in November 26th, 2008
Have you ever been annoyed by the fact that there is no “No to All” button on those Windows prompts. There is a “Yes to All”, but if you want to do the opposite, you have to just keep clicking “No” everytime, which can get very frustrating. Well this little trick will show you how [...]
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Published in November 25th, 2008
YouTube has just announced (and released) a bigger video player! Who says bigger isnt better? Of course it is. The new YouTube player has gone to widescreen providing a 16:9 ratio. But don’t worry, the older 4:3 ratio videos will play just fine in the new player. The new player brings the page width of [...]
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Published in November 24th, 2008
If you have just installed Windows Vista, or purchased a new computer/laptop with Vista, here is a quick list of some tweaks you can do for some instant performance improvements. These will help speed up the system and get rid of some annoyances. 1) Turn off Aero If you have a copy of Windows Vista [...]
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Published in November 20th, 2008
Samsung has just begun mass producing their new 256GB solid state drives (SSD). These are pretty much the largest SSDs currently available for laptops today. For those of you not familiar with what an SSD is – A solid-state drive (SSD) is a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to store persistent data. A [...]
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Published in November 19th, 2008
OK, if you don’t know what the user agent is, then its most likely that you don’t want to change it. But here is some further information about it. Your browser has a user agent value. This is a string value which tells the type/version of browser you are using. When you visit websites, they [...]
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Published in November 18th, 2008
The major exploits that were recently revealed in all versions of Windows have been sold in a Malware kit. The malware kit has been developed for attacking Windows and in particular makes use of the recent exploits – it can scan ports and then attack those vulnerable. The exploit affects the server service on Windows operating systems. [...]
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Published in November 17th, 2008
We just recently discussed (in our last post) about the new Microsoft Live becoming like a social network. Well following on from that, we have some samples of the new icons to be released with the new services. You can view some of the new icons for the Windows Live services below: These icons look [...]
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