In the past few days, Windows 7 users became extremely excited about the newly discovered ‘GodMode’. The name suggests something extremely powerful, although it’s basically a folder with shortcuts to the system settings of the operating system. Such a feature exists in Windows Vista as well.To access this special folder, create a new folder, and then rename it the following: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} It will then magically change its icon into the Control [...]

One of the most debated pieces of software is the web browser. There are many options to choose from, so there’s quite a lot of competition in the web browser market. How does a less known Slim Browser compare? Slim Browser is a lightweight browser based on Internet Explorer and the IE Trident rendering engine. The download size is 2 MB with the final installation being around 3 MB only. When I first started the browser, the first thing that came to my mind is Internet Explorer 6. The buttons [...]

Is your disk usage flying upwards? Wondering what files are the culprit to your low disk space? Thanks to WinDirStat (Windows Directory Statistics), you can easily find out the individual files or folders that is consuming a good portion of your disk space as well as quickly delete files. Usage of WinDirStat is easy and straightforward. When the program first starts, it will ask which drives to scan.A scan of my C drive which has around 100 GB used up took around 8 minutes and RAM usage continued [...]

Are you getting a handful of server not found or DNS Errors when you know the server is not down and your network connection is working fine? When you browse the internet, your internet browser looks up the DNS Records of each website you visit in order to connect to the website’s server. To save time when you revisit the website, the DNS Entry is cached on your computer. However, your browser may cache a bad entry, such as when the server really is down or during DNS Propagation time. If this [...]

Mozilla had released some initial design mockups for Firefox 3.7 and 4.0 on Windows back in July displaying a more minimalistic look and tighter integration with the operating system’s theme. As I had expected, theme developers saw this as an opportunity and themes trying to match the mockups started appearing.The theme being used in the above screenshot is Strata40. By default, users will see a Windows XP Zune Style Theme. However, thanks to StrataBuddy, which contains all of Strata40′s [...]

Don’t have Photoshop and need to open PSD files? Are alternatives like GIMP too slow and heavy? I recommend Paint.NET as a great free alternative to Photoshop because its lightweight and fast. Unfortunately, it does not support PSD files. Luckily, thanks to a free plugin, it can open and save PSD files. Simpy download the zip file and extract Photoshop.dll. Place this file into the FileTypes directory inside your Paint.NET install directory. Then, just open up Paint.NET and PSD files can be [...]

Windows 7 was officially released to the general public a few days ago on October 22nd. There’s no doubt that many of us have gotten our hands on a copy, or that many of us have seen many screenshots of this new operating system, but here is an article for those who haven’t.

Are you a PC? Microsoft Windows is the most popular operating system in the world with over 90% of the market share. How long have you been using Windows? With Windows 7 just released, its nice to look back at the long history of Microsoft Windows. This is a timeline of Microsoft Windows starting from Windows 1.0 in 1985 all the way to 2009 with Windows 7. Windows originated from MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) in 1982. While MS-DOS is not currently in development anymore, files and commands [...]