The next iteration of the Windows Live suite is called “Wave 4″ by Microsoft. This will include changes both for local and web applications. On the web app side of things, Hotmail is one of the biggies, and Wave 4 is going to bring about several significant changes. The ones you’ll most likely make most note of are:A single file attachment...

A small bit of computer history to start this one off: In the B.I. (Before Internet) computer era, the way people uploaded and downloaded files over long distances was via their local BBS. Being that file transfers were mind numbingly slow (the download of a 1MB file over a 14.4kbit/s connection took 10 minutes), compressed archive files were very popular, with...

It should be noted up front that this method only covers software that is registered in Add/Remove in Windows. Other software (like PuTTY or JkDefrag which are standalone executables) won’t show up in a list like this. But if it’s in Add/Remove, it will. Why would you want to do this? There are several good reasons:You plan on upgrading from XP to...

This guide is for anybody that has a whole bunch of files, be they photos, MP3s, documents or any other type of file you have that needs quick-sorting by date at a glance. There is only one right way to put the date in a file name. When I say "date in a file name" I mean that the actual title of the file has the date in it. The format you must use for...

In 2007 I did a video on how to share files/folders to Windows with Ubuntu. But since version 8 of that OS the way in which this is done has changed a bit. It is simplified somewhat, but the drawback now is that in order to change the Workgroup name you must edit a configuration file manually instead of having the ability to do it in the GUI like before. In the...

The best advice concerning email attachments I could ever give is to simply never open them. But that’s unreasonable considering so many people trade files in email these days, be it documents, video clips or the like. There are certain file types I absolutely will not open, or will use an alternative method to open them with. And here they...

Time and time again I run into people who think "torrent" translates to "illegal". Is it? Let’s find out what this all means by examining the definitions. A torrent is a small file usually ending with the file extension .torrent. You use the .torrent file with a BitTorrent client. BitTorrent itself is a peer-to-peer file sharing...

In this series I’m going to covers the ins and outs of using Linux as your primary home computer operating system. It will cover in a realistic sense what you can and moreover cannot do with it. [hidepost=1] This is not going to be a technical explanation of how the Linux file system works but rather it’s immediate differences between it and Windows. The...

Some people are confused (or just have the wrong idea) about what a computer server actually is. The technical definition is that a server is a computer dedicated to providing a specific service or services. Concerning what you would use in the home, the most common example is a file server, i.e. a computer where its sole purpose in life is to store files you...

This article covers the following:Setting up a workgroup in Windows XP. Setting up a workgroup in Ubuntu 8.10. How to share out files from your Windows XP computer on your home network so you can access them with Ubuntu 8.10. How to access files shared by your Windows XP computer on your home network in Ubuntu 8.10. How to share files out from Ubuntu 8.10 to a...

Eraser is a secure file deletion utility. It works with any version of Windows (from Windows 95 to Vista) and even DOS. When you delete a file from your computer it is not securely erased. There are ways it could be retrieved. However with Eraser, when a file is deleted using the utility, a file is deleted and overwritten several times with patterns. This makes...

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