Archive for January, 2010
Protect your files by blocking basic file operations
I’m rather protective of my computing environment and the files it contains. It’s not that I don’t trust family and friends using my computers, it’s just accidents can happen. Obviously, something drastic like your little brother blasting out your folder of music on accident is tragic and the basis for all your concerns. It actually [...]
Resize partitions for free in Windows 7
For years there did not exist a free utility that allowed for disk partitions to be resized, either larger or smaller. Probably the software that most have heard of for this problem was Partition Magic, now owned by Symantec. The software was painless in it’s methods but of course, it was not free. Eventually, as [...]
Supercharge your mousewheel scrolling in Firefox 3.6
It’s hard to remember the days when your browser lacked tab support. Firefox, while not the first, implemented tabs and brought the feature to the fore-front – now every browser supports that functionality. Tabbed browsing has become pivotal to the surfing experience. Of equal importance, the popularity of the mousewheel and it’s use in window [...]
Share your problems with Windows 7 Problem Steps Recorder
Anyone who has been tasked to provide remote technical support, whether professionally or otherwise, has likely lived through the following scenario. You receive a panicked phone call from a user in peril explaining that such and such is doing this and that; everything from cause and effects, symptoms, and error messages are paraphrased. It’s frustrating [...]
Launch a private browsing window along side your typical Firefox window
All the major browsers now ship with a private browsing mode that, for brevity’s sake, does not store any information as it relates to the session on the hard drive after the browser has been closed. Not wanting to leave any web browsing tracks is valuable for many reasons, and they aren’t all naughty or [...]
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