Florian Reimann’s idea was great and quite simple… He created five utilities which are utilizing the Windows 7 new behaviour to display the progress in the task bar icon (with the window minimized). With these little executables a Windows 7 user can have indication for CPU usage, Memory usage , Battery status, HDD usage and Volume level at [...]

One of the most beloved Firefox features is extensions. Especially for the experienced users who love to add custom functionalities to their browser and make things easier when they are using internet and web applications. Now (to be more specific a while ago) extensions are available for Google Chrome. Google Chrome is quite simple browser with a bunch friendly build in [...]

Back in 2006, a bright programmer (http://twitter.com/theSoftwareJedi) decided to start a project called “An App A Day”. The project target was to build a simple application and released within a day (sometimes the application was released after few minutes!). The project was kept alive for 30 days, utilities released on the project blog and are still available for download until today [...]

Windows 7 is a part of our life right now and one thing in this new OS which remains the same over the years is its text editor. Notepad is quite simple piece of software and most users doesn’t use it because its features are limited. Lot of users are forced to use office suites or other complicated programs for task where an [...]

I’m a fan of free and open source software. Free software is great nowadays and I think that its possible to do almost everything by using free and open source software. The main question is “which software I have to use to replace a commercial product?”. The answer is simple: “just go to AlternativeTo.net “. The site AlternativeTo [...]

I just downloaded the latest trial software available from Nero site. To be honest ? never look to system requirements berofe I install a program to my system. So I decided to install this package and check the latest additions. The first steps was quite fast and the interface is new and I though that [...]

I was tested a Pre-Beta release of the Windows 7 operating system recently. My first thought was “This version of windows looks more like improved Vista than a new operating system”. I admit that a lot of changes taking place in the new Windows. Power bar, more options on the tray, better solution center, better [...]

We must face it. A bunch versions of windows OS appeared and still some things are simpler, or can be done only in command mode. Windows apparently cannot get rid of the “DOS mode”. We still have to get network diagnostics (Ping, Ipconfig, Arp, etc) using the black command window. This is not always bad, [...]

It may sound common but when you face it is really scary! Yesterday I powered up one of my extrernal HDD’s (the one with the videos) and the following message appeared : or As I mentioned above the HDD was full of videos and pictures and it was NTFS formatted. “WTF happent”, I said, but [...]

Today I faced a strange error message using Vista Ultimate… The above message appears when I try to rename a file with a space placeholder at the beggining of the file name. Windows vista seems to ignore the leading spaces and consider the file names the same! So I can;t remove the leading space character [...]