Tips & Tricks
Can I recover deleted files?
Saturday, May 9th, 2009[ reprinted from Popular Science article originally posted 05/23/08 ]
So you finally finished writing your novel and then somehow accidentally dumped it? It happens. Luckily, when you delete a file from your computer’s trash bin, it’s actually just marked for deletion. That means it can be overwritten on your hard drive by other data, but […]
How to stop Google from following you on the internet
Saturday, May 9th, 2009[ reprinted from Popular Science article posted 3/11/09 ]
original article here
A simple tool lets you opt out of advertising programs that track your Web clicks
Hundreds of thousands of Web sites show ads provided by Google, such as those little text ads that offer you everything from diets to dog training. Now Google has announced […]
Get control of your computer with Tweak UI (free)
Friday, April 11th, 2008Here’s another tool I highly recommend: Tweak UI by Microsoft. It’s a wonderful little utility that lets you control hundreds of different “behind-the-scenes” functions of Windows.
This particular version is for Windows XP. Here is the Microsoft PowerToys page, and here is the direct download link for TweakUI.
Enjoy!