The Techfiles
Adding Version Control to your Documents in Word 2007
If you are a power user in Microsoft Word you’ve likely suffered at least one catastrophic failure that resulted in hours of lost editing. Moving forward, you’ve learned from that tragic event and now you save early and save often. You may even take it one step further and create copies or iterations of your [...]
Partition USB Thumb Drives with BootIt
Were you aware that Windows is unable to partition a USB thumb drive? It’s true, if the USB device is identified by Windows to be of the removable media type the flash drive will not show up in any of Windows partitioning tools. The obvious solution is to convince Windows that the drive is not [...]
Determining the Effectiveness of Windows ReadyBoost
Windows ReadyBoost was a much discussed new feature introduced by Microsoft for Windows Vista. The idea is simple enough; use USB thumb drives as additional system memory to boost overall performance, sort of. Sort of because adding a 1GB flash drive isn’t exactly like adding an additional 1GB of RAM – actually it’s a fair [...]
Userscripts Updater for Greasemonkey
Greasemonkey is easily one of the best Firefox extensions available and is often the one extension that keeps everyone coming back to Firefox, in my opinion. Greasemonkey provides a mechanism to customize, which usually entails added functionality, a website via javascript components. There are literally thousands of Greasemonkey scripts available that can all sorts of [...]
Exporting iTunes Playlists with iExporter
iTunes is likely the top music library manager available for Windows and OS X, unfortunately it’s generally not because of the quality of the product – especially on the Windows platform. Rather, the iPod’s dominance in the portable music player market dictates iTunes success. Savvy users may be aware that the iPod is not exclusively [...]
