LifeHacker reports: "It's tax time, and here in the United States you're guaranteed a faster refund if you're due one by filing your taxes electronically. The trouble is that there are dozens of tools that can help you e-file. Some of them help you maximize your deductions and make sure nothing's overlooks, and others just make the filing process quick and easy. Here are five of the best tax
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Software: Free BarCode Generator
Posted on 8:39 PM by Unknown
The Bytescout BarCode Generator is a free program that is able to create and export barcodes into several different image formats (e.g. EMF, PNG, JPG, TIFF, GIF). The application supports several different 1D and 2D barcode types (e.g. Codabar, Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5, Code 93, Code 128, EAN-13, EAN-8, JAN-13, Bookland, UPC-A, UPC-E, Postnet, PDF417, Truncated PDF417, DataMatrix, QR Code
Monday, January 23, 2012
Windows 7: Backing up EFS certificates
Posted on 6:15 PM by Unknown
Do you use the Encrypted File System (EFS) that's built into Windows 7 (which is included in Pro, Enterprise and Ultimate versions of the OS) to protect your data on your local hard drive? If so you should make sure that you back up the EFS certificate so you can recover your encrypted data if the stored keys on your hard drive get accidentally corrupted or deleted.
To backup the EFS key, use
To backup the EFS key, use
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Article: AWS offers free Windows on EC2 (kind of)
Posted on 6:55 PM by Unknown
GIGAOM reports: "Amazon will let customers run free micro-instances of Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 on its EC2 service starting now, according to a new post to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog.
Such try-before-you-buy tactics have helped Amazon win converts to its cloud platform by letting them test new or existing applications in its cloud for free. While Amazon offers a choice of operating
Such try-before-you-buy tactics have helped Amazon win converts to its cloud platform by letting them test new or existing applications in its cloud for free. While Amazon offers a choice of operating
Article: Microsoft revives flight sim by giving it away free
Posted on 6:47 PM by Unknown
The Register reports: "Microsoft has said that it will be reviving its Flight Simulator franchise this spring with a free version of the game entitled simply Flight.Redmond is making the game available in a private beta at present, but plans to release it as a free download eventually. The game needs a minimum of 10GB of hard drive space, a dual-core 2Ghz processor, Windows XP SP3 and 2GB of RAM,
Monday, January 16, 2012
ShapeCatcher.com (Unicode Character Finder)
Posted on 8:44 PM by Unknown
ShapeCatcher.com helps you to find the right Unicode characters. All you have to do is draw the Unicode character you're looking for, and the site will show you the closest matches in their database. Currently, there are 10877 Unicode character glyphs in their database.
Note: The site currently doesn't support Japanese, Korean and Chinese characters.
If you don't know what Unicode is, per
Note: The site currently doesn't support Japanese, Korean and Chinese characters.
If you don't know what Unicode is, per
Play Cut the Rope for the your Browser
Posted on 8:38 PM by Unknown
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team partnered with ZeptoLab to port their popular game Cut the Rope in to HTML5 to demonstrate its robustness as a development platform. The game was primarily designed to demonstrate Internet Explorer 9 capabilities, but it works in other browsers (like Chrome).
Emperor 1510 Workstation from MWE Lab at CES 2011
Posted on 8:22 PM by Unknown
At CES 2012 MWE Lab introduced the Emperor 1510, which is the ultimate computer workstation chair for around $6000 USD. Check out the site for more information.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Speed Up Your SSD By Correctly Aligning Your Partitions
Posted on 8:35 PM by Unknown
If you have a newer SSD drive you have to make sure that the partition alignment is setup correctly. Otherwise, you might be sacrificing some of your performance.LifeHacker did a great article called "Speed Up Your SSD By Correctly Aligning Your Partitions", here is an excerpt: "To see if your partitions are aligned correctly, hit the Start menu and type in msinfo32. Enter Msinfo32 and go to
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Privacy: Introduction to Publicly Available Information
Posted on 4:51 PM by Unknown
As the Internet grew over the last few decades, people and companies would make information publicly available without realizing how it can be exploited if used improperly.
Criminals have learned how to take advantage of this information by having computers crawl the public web looking for it. For example, they first started looking for email addressees for sending SPAM, and later evolved into
Criminals have learned how to take advantage of this information by having computers crawl the public web looking for it. For example, they first started looking for email addressees for sending SPAM, and later evolved into
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