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Website With Loads Of Time And Date Tools

Do you need to know what time it is in XXX? What about the calendar for 1934? What about the time the moon will rise in Arizona on March 12?
All of these questions (and loads more) can be answered on TimeAndDate.com. When you visit, there are a huge collection of tools that give you just [...]

Easily View The S.M.A.R.T. Information Of Your Hard Drives

As you probably know, your hard drive is the device which is most likely to fail. While a hard drive can fail at any time without warning, the S.M.A.R.T. sensors build into modern hard drives are a good indicator of your overall drive health. A very simple tool which allows you to view this data [...]

How To Deal With SuperCookies

We’ve been told ever since we started using web browsers that it’s a good idea to clear out your cache and cookies periodically. This used to be a pain in the neck to get done, but with modern flavors of web browsers you can clear this information out easily. In IE8 and Firefox you can [...]

Another Tool For Your Malware Removal Arsenal

Whenever your anti-virus program fails or you are having to clean someone else’s computer, a way to clean your system is by using malware scanners. If you ever have the need for these types of tools, one you should take a look at it is a-squared Free.
Like most tools in it’s class, a-squared Free scans [...]

MyDefrag – Have You Tried It?

For those of you that have ever used JkDefrag, MyDefrag is what it has evolved to, and it’s still as great as ever.
When it comes to running a file defragmentation on your Windows PC, the only thing you truly care about is getting it done as fast as possible with no fuss. MyDefrag does just [...]

Tool In Google Reader Helps You Determine What You Are Actually Reading

I use Google Reader as my RSS reader and am subscribed to enough feeds that I get approximately 100 new items daily. Obviously, this is way more than I can read so I need to make sure I am only subscribed to feeds that I actually read, otherwise the shear number of items becomes overwhelming. [...]

It’s Time To Bring Back NNTR

NNTR means No Need To Reply. Where this originated from I haven’t a clue, but it’s something that has been dormant for years that I believe needs to be used again.
Were I to hazard a guess, I believe NNTR came about due to one of two reasons. Either the fact email used to actually cost [...]

Feature Loaded Online Image Editor

If you seldom use graphics editors on your computer and only need them on occasion, using an online image editor may be for you. A tool which can fit this use quite nicely is Sumo Paint.
Sumo Paint can be run entirely within your browser and supports the ability to both save files to and open [...]

How Can VPNs Secure Companies?

This is a guest post by Elisabeta Ghidiu.
VPNs are a common subject these days and they are being used both by home users and companies. From a company point of view, when we think of a Virtual Private Network we think of an intelligent tunnel that encrypts data at the IP level and send the [...]

Wondering Who Else Is Using An Image?

Whenever you get a call from a number you don’t recognize, you can do a reverse lookup to find out a little more about who the caller is. So from that line of thinking, TinEye allows you to do a reverse lookup on an image file.
TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit [...]

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