ROBOCOPY, as in “Robust File Copy for Windows”, is something that’s been a standard feature of the Windows environment since Windows Vista. Prior to that it was available in Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 or Windows XP via the “Windows Resource Kit” as a separately installed utility. What does ROBOCOPY do that regular COPY or XCOPY...

Keeping track of your finances is especially important if you’re a freelancer- after all, you don’t tend to receive paychecks in the same way you would in a more structured setting. The job of tracking your finances- ensuring you’ve been paid your due in a timely fashion- is entirely on you. No one’s going to come to you and let you know...

Digital Rights Management. Few things raise the hackles of PC gamers more than those three words. Granted, it’s not always terrible. DRM can, when done right, protect the intellectual property of a developer without making legitimate customers feel like criminals. The trouble is, it’s almost never done right anymore. Virtually the only example I can...

As far as I know, there is no recent statistical information on what people are using these days for email clients. Sure, you’ll find user stats for webmail like Hotmail, Y! Mail, Gmail and so on, but as for mail clients, not really. My guess – and yes, this is only a guess – is that there are still a fair amount of Microsoft Outlook Express 6...

Whenever taking screencasts of an OS that isn’t Windows 7, I’m using VMware Player to do it with. I’ve been holding out with version 3 for the longest time, but I finally decided to upgrade to 5 and there’s a feature called Unity. No, it’s not like Ubuntu’s Unity at all. What Unity in VMware Player allows you to do is run apps...

Back in the early-early days of the internet, I used to play games in the browser that were Java based like Yahoo! Pool (which amazingly still runs off Java). Back then there was this thing in Windows called Microsoft Java Virtual Machine. The Sun company evidently got all in a twist about that because of copyright infringements and whatnot, sued Microsoft in...

Windows 7 does in fact include a way to have checkboxes next to files and folders for easier selection for those that use the mouse often. It looks like this:…and also works for saving files, selecting folders and basically anywhere else you would use Windows Explorer. Click the Windows logo and type “folder options”:From the results, click...

Handbrake is free software for Windows (including 64-bit), Mac or Linux that anyone who makes video (for hobby or for pro) should use because it’s just so damned good at what it does. The purpose of Handbrake is to plop a video file in there (such as a WMV, AVI or MOV) and then convert it to MP4 or MKV. It’s most likely true you would be using the...

While there have been many improvement in Google Maps and Bing Maps over the years, there’s still nothing that beats Google Earth as far as what you can do with it. Some of the features you’ll see below are in Google/Bing Maps, but done done in a way where the functions are separated and/or cumbersome to use. Google Earth, being a true local...

The term “hoarding” is generally considered to be a bad thing, but when it comes to the software you love that you can’t live without, I cannot stress this enough: SAVE THOSE INSTALLERS. This is especially true for Windows XP users. The software you love right now will not be on the internet forever where you can download and install it...