Free disk drive activity icons for Windows PCs and Macs
On 2010/08/07
It is often useful to know when your computer’s hard drive(s) are accessed. Typical reasons are:
when your computer is not responding and you wonder if it crashed you want to know if that file you are saving is actually being written to the drive
Hard drive activity is usually a sign that your [...]
What does the Apply button do?
On 2010/03/21
Sometimes a Windows dialog shows the Apply button next to the OK and Cancel buttons. Some people are confused by what the Apply button does. I see them click the Apply button before clicking the OK button. They think that if they only click the OK button their changes will be lost.
When you [...]
Which way do you do it, your way or theirs?
On 2010/02/25
Where does your computer store your documents, photos, music and videos? The correct answer includes the full path. Do you know? Many of you do not. That is okay because you can read your documents, view your photos, listen to your music and watch your movies, even if you do not know where they are [...]
The NY Times’ David Pogue’s 2009 ‘Take Back the Beep‘ campaign is trying to get cell phone carriers to eliminate the lengthy messages that precede recording a voice message. My campaign is to change the way we launch applications or find files on our computers. I want you to learn to use [...]
This free program solves a problem I never knew needed solving—accessing Windows desktop icons without minimizing everything else. It works with Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.
You launch and it runs in the background, waiting for you to type Ctrl+Alt+D to access the desktop icons.
The desktop icons are moved to the front visual [...]
Readability, a better way to read web pages
On 2009/03/17
Sometimes all we want to do is read the content on a web page. This can be frustrating when the page is cluttered with images, text, navigation tools and flash objects.
The Readability bookmarklet is a way to deal with this clutter. …
Hiding navigation elements – is this a good idea?
On 2009/03/12
I was recently surprised by inadvertlently pressing the Alt key when viewing Vista’s Windows Explorer window (the file manager). The menu toolbar appeared as if by magic.
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