Blast from the past: originally published June 17th 2003. Next up is American Conquest from CDV. Not a big name in North America, but they’ve has a lot of European hits like Sudden Strike and Cossacks. American Conquest is a real time…
Blast from the past: originally published June 17th 2003. Unreal II is the follow up to the huge first person shooter hit of many years ago from Epic. You run a small ship and get sent on mission killing bad guys. Cut…
In the wake of the Gmail temporary loss of accounts a lot of tech sites are highlighting ways to back up your account. I like the suggestion of Hotmail accessing your Gmail through POP but that’s another cloud solution to…
All-In-One Tray is a great free Windows 7 utility that sits in your system tray and provides access to pretty well all the operating system’s built in utilities plus a lot more like purging DNS cache and rebuilding icons. As…
It’s hard for those who like to maintain anonymity and privacy on the internet, especially when downloading files from torrents. PeerBlock is designed to help with that: here is the straight goods from their FAQ: What is PeerBlock? The short…
Blast from the past: originally published December 14th 2001. I don’t have to tell you that Microsoft launched their latest operating system on October 25th. There was enough media coverage, advertising and hoopla to let everyone who has a PC get…
While on my recent trip I picked up the June 2010 issue of PC Plus; in it they glowingly recommended a product called DriverEasy. I was on vacation and although PC Plus is the most expensive British tech mag import…
Setting up a PC for a friend and they needed some sort of backup. My first thought is always Windows Home Server but this was a single PC and the extra cost couldn’t be justified. I turned again to Macrium…
Eventually every PC user comes to the point when they try to save something on their PC and there isn’t enough space. We all react the same way: what’s filled my hard drive? It seemed for a while gargantuan hard…
Update 16-Mar-10. Forfiles command line updated to show @file instead of @path; testing and working. Update 02-Aug-10. Download location for ForFiles changed since Microsoft CodePlex page has been removed. I needed a simple and free backup program for a single…
