Category: Communications

When transferring your pictures or movies via Bluetooth between the phone and the laptop or other devices, by default they are saved to the folder “Bluetooth exchange folder”. It may sometimes be hard to locate the file once you transfer it to your laptop. If you want to change the destination folder for your Bluetooth…

By default, most laptops start dimming their displays (their screens brightness) when not plugged into a power source. This can be irritating, especially when you are watching a movie or you are making a presentation to a customer. You might need to keep increasing the brightness of your display manually. Here is how you can…

When opening any windows, it plays a short sound / melody. If you need to reboot your device often, it can become annoying. If you want, you could prevent windows from playing any sound when it opens. Just a note: the startup sound is different from the login sound. So if you stop the starting…

Some original music CDs need to be protected from damage because you can’t even measure their value. They are so precious so creating backup copies is a great solution. Here is an instruction to see how to copy a CD with CDBurnerXP. 1. Download and install CDBurnerXP from here: http://www.filepuma.com/download/cdburnerxp_4.5.4.5067-6814/ 2. Start CDBurnerXP, click on…

CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilingual interface. Everyone, even companies, can be used for free. It does not contain adware or similar malicious components. Here is an instruction to let you know…

If you have a favorite song, or you would like to play the sound of your new HarleyDavidson Motor when you get new emails, or when logging into windows, now you can customize the widnows sounds. It can be a nice personal touch to the otherwise uniform work computers as well. Here is how to…

Some browsers download files to “My pictures”, some download to “My Documents” or the general folder “Downloads”. T may sometimes be hard to locate the file once you download it. If you want to change the destination folder for your downloads from internet, here is how to do that in Chrome: Step One. Open Chrome…

Q-Dir (the Quad Explorer) makes your files and folder easy to manage, as an installed or portable Windows program. Fast and easy access to your hard disks, network folders, USB-Stiks, floppy disks and other storage devices. Here is an instruction to tell you how to have a separate tree view for each list view. 1.…

Free 3GP Video Converter is a converter which can convert any video files to *.avi, *.mp4, *.wmv, *.mkv, *.flv, *.swf, *.mov, *.3gp, *.m2ts or *.webm formats. Extract audio MP3 from video files. This Free 3GP Video Converter contains no spyware or adware. It’s clearly free and absolutely safe to install and run. Here is an…

While pictures can be created in many formats, .GIF files are preferred for online / website use due to their small size. If you want to convert any image format (JPG, BPM, TIFF) into .GIF, there is an easy way to do that without needing Photoshop or any designer program. Here is how to convert…

If you have home-made videos in .AVI format, you will not be able to play them directly on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod. While there are some windows provided tools for converting videos between formats, the best tool we can recommend is free to download and install and it is called “FreeMake Video Converter”. Here…

UltraEdit is the ideal text, HTML and hex editor, and an advanced PHP, Perl, Java and JavaScript editor for programmers. UltraEdit is also an XML editor including a tree-style XML parser.  If you need to quickly highlight text in the selected part so that you can see differences of file contents. 1. Download and install UltraEdit…

You may want to download and keep the visual content of any website. Or you may want to easily share website designs using PDF format. While there are many free online converters, the easiest way is to use Google Chrome Web Browser. Here is how to convert any webpage into .PDF using Google Chrome browser:…

When you are travelling and have limited battery on your laptop, you may wish to constantly monitor how much battery is left. While Windows has a clear battery indicator, it is by default NOT shown on the taskbar in the bottom. Here is how to constantly display the battery indicator on your laptop’s screen in…

If you have taken many short videos, you may want to join them all together into one movie clip. While there are some windows provided tools for that, the best tool we can recommend is free to download and install and it is called “FreeMake”. Here is how to join movie clips using the free…

Sometimes for celebrations or special occasions you may want to make a movie from your photos, so that it makes it an enjoyable presentation. SONY’s Movie Maker is an easy click-and-drop tool which has nice templates built-in to make a movie out of your photos. Here is how to make a movie from your photos:…

Internet Explorer is the world’s most popular Web browser. Security, ease of use, and improvements in RSS, CSS, and Ajax support are Microsoft’s priorities for Internet Explorer. Users of Internet Explorer are able to customize all the features in their browser. Here is an instruction for you to do some settings to suit you. 1. Run Internet Explorer…

Internet Explorer is the world’s most popular Web browser. Security, ease of use, and improvements in RSS, CSS, and Ajax support are Microsoft’s priorities for Internet Explorer. Web pages are comprised of a programming language known as “script.” You can test the Internet Explorer script to see if there are any errors present in the web…