The mighty VLC is the player of choice for many regardless of whether you use Windows, Mac or Linux since it runs on all three. Choosing different skins (which you may known as “themes”) however isn’t exactly a straightforward thing to do. However once you know where to go and how to apply a skin, it’s easy. See video below to see how...

"Oh. Great. Another Flash Player. Why should I get this one?" This one you should actually pay attention to because there are two notable improvements. First is the fact there’s a native 64-bit version – and that’s great since many of us (yours truly included) are using 64-bit CPUs with 64-bit Windows these days. Second, it’s...

Since the introduction of Firefox 7, I’ve officially switched back to the Fx browser (but not without this add-on installed, which I consider mandatory). No, I’m not telling to you dump IE, Opera or Chrome, but Fx 7 did impress me enough to switch back over to it. A feature of Fx I used a long time ago when it was first introduced was Firefox Sync....

Fiddler is billed as a "Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet"; it’s different from TCPView in the respect that monitoring traffic is only part of what it does. On top of network monitoring, it will also show every single file sent and received and if any new files have triggered network...

Windows 7 does have a program built into it called Contacts. You can get to this by clicking the Windows Logo (formerly known as the Start button), type Contacts, and a clickable selection to launch Contacts will appear:What you’ll see in there is at least one contact – you. Any user account in Windows 7 will show up as a contact. And no, that does...

One of the more underrated features of the modern Firefox browser is the use of Tab Groups. This built-in feature (meaning no add-ons/plugins required) makes quick work of a cluttered-up tab bar by organizing a lot of tabs into easy-manage groups that can be ordered however you like. See video below for details on how it...

Hardware accelerated fonts don’t work on all monitors, and may result in them looking blurry – particularly with smaller fonts. This font blur is something that’s very noticeable, but only in specific setups. These setups I’m referring to are Windows Vista and Windows 7 users with ClearType enabled. The standard advice given concerning...

Hopefully when you watch this you haven’t seen it already (and I’m also hoping it’s not pulled from YouTube by the time this article goes live either). I’m not going to tell you who made this ad, but I will say it’s from a company who is notorious for having way more bad adverts than good ones. This advert just isn’t good,...

KNOPPIX has been around a good long time and is one of the best Linux distributions for LiveCD use. In fact, KNOPPIX was one of the first OSes able to be run “live”. The latest version of KNOPPIX is 6.7.1. Still very fast, still very good in LiveCD mode, still one of the best distros you could ever use as for emergency recovery CD use. If you...

Arguably, FileZilla is the best FTP client you could use. It’s free, it’s easy and runs on Windows, Mac or Linux. If you ever decide to dive into the world of traditional web hosting, it’s basically required to use an FTP client. The video below shows the basics of connecting to a site and executing basic...