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Technibble has put together a computer repair utility kit consisting of some 57 tools that you can run from your portable drive like a USB flash drive. The tools are organized in groups like file management, information, repair tools, recovery, network tools, virus and malware removal tools, and more. See Technibble’s computer repair utility kit [...]

If you, like me, have Windows XP machines on your network, you may have run into trouble sharing files on them. XP has an Internet Connection Firewall that could be blocking file sharing. Annoyances.org has a two year old article explaining how to set up your Windows XP firewall. A few simple steps were all [...]

Easy Whiteboard is a program that turns your screen into a whiteboard. You draw directly on your screen on top of all other applications. This is very useful if you are explaining something. It is similar to how the meteorologists show the direction of weather patterns or how sports commentators explain the latest plays on [...]

Now that computers have become so powerful, it is possible to simultaneously run multiple operating systems on a single computer. I like to use Windows as my main operation system, but sometimes I need access to a Linux system. Dual-booting Windows an Linux is possible, but often I want to juggle back and forth between [...]

There are a many choices for online storage. However, many of them only give you a gigabyte or two for free. This is where Microsoft’s Skydrive is changing the game: They give you 25 GB of free online storage space with a 50 MB limit of individual files. You need a Windows Live ID to [...]

Lifehacker has a story about how to use QuickPar to burn more reliable discs. Often you don’t use all the space on discs you burn. Use QuickPar to fill this leftover space with parity data. If some of the files on the disc get corrupted (which often happens as the discs get older), chances are [...]

PawTodo is a simple to-do list program for Windows. It displays your to-do list directly on your desktop — right where you can’t miss it. The to-do list is actually an RTF file, so you can use various fonts and colors to format your list. To make the to-do list easy to read on a [...]

So you use Gmail as your main email account? But what happens if you get locked out of Gmail? What if you can’t access your email? That is a pretty serious situation in today’s world where more and more things happen online. This is where Gmail Backup comes in. It is a tool for backing [...]

Cooliris is a new and different way of browsing photos on the web. Instead of seeing the usual lattice of thumbnail photos, Cooliris gives you a 3D wall of photos that you move along to see more and more photos. You can zoom in on a photo to see a full screen version of it. [...]

When you get rid of your computer, how do you get rid of the data on it? How do you make sure that nobody can recover your personal data from it. Formatting the harddisk is not enough. It is still possible to recover files from a formatted disk. The Read Write Web blog has a [...]