Email is an important communications tool that is very commonly used nowadays. It is fast and easy to use. However, there is always a critical argument on how secure Email is. Email travels from sender to recipient across the internet; therefore, anyone (possibly with malcious intent) can intercept it, copy it, edit it or even stop it. Neither sender nor recipient will know the email […]
Vista Shutdown Timer or Vista-ShutdownTimer is a free, advanced yet easy to use sleep timer or scheduler for Windows operating system, supporting almost all versions of Windows including Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003/2008, Windows 2000 and etc., albeit the name of “Vista” Shutdown Timer. Vista Shutdown Timer allows user to preset schedule a time to shutdown and turn off computer automatically, and support […]
Have tons of music tracks and albums in the media library of Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center, and having a hard time to update and manage the album titles, album artist names, and most importantly album arts aka CD covers? WMP and WMC does not provide an easy way to manage the albums’ arts and details. Furthermore, the album artworks may be incorrect, […]
Windows Vista has included built-in MPEG-2 decoder or codec from Micrsoft into the system. Thus, unlike in Windows XP or earlier, users can watch DVD and view live telecast or recorded TV shows without the need to buy or download and install third party DVD MPEG-2 decoder such as PowerDVD and WinDVD, or free MPEG2 codec or DirectShow filter.
After installing Apple Quicktime, it’s essential to test the QuickTime installation to verify and ensure that the QuickTime is installed properly and worked as desired. Testing allows you to playback any streaming video or HD (high definition) movie contents immediately embedded on web browser or downloaded without delay or having to spend time troubleshoot the QuickTime codec or decoder again. It’s also useful to test […]
Camtasia Studio is a popular screen capture and recording tools that can be used to record desktop screen to create, edit and publish training, demo or presentation videos. Now you have a chance to download, install and use Camtasia Studio for free forever legally. Thanks to a promotion on the latest Camtasia Studio 5 by TechSmith (maker of Camtasia Studio) and UK based PC Plus […]
It is quite a common problem and challenge faced by IT operation/maintenance professionals to manage system performance and avoid performance degradation and abnormalities. To assist IT experts to detect early performance disruption, the American enterprise management software provider, BMC Software Inc, released its highly sophisticated warming system, ProactiveNet Analytics, lately.
Looking for beautiful animated screensaver with clock function for your Windows system? Sony and SonicStage have designed and created two beautiful clock style screen savers that not only animated, but also can interactively change the colors, styles, layouts and designs. The screensavers, aptly named Motion Clock and Motion Click Circle, allows you to display digital or analog clock in unique style on your LCD monitor […]
When trying to select and set a built-in included DreamScene content video clip as desktop background, or have downloaded and installed custom third-party DreamScene animated motion backgrounds, and want to run the new video scene as the DreamScene desktop wallpaper, the DreamScene background may goes off and appears as a black screen or blank screen. The symptom may happen on first installation of DreamScene in […]
QuickTime Lite is packaged by developer for Vista Codec Package (VCP) codec pack to provide full web browser support for viewing and downloading streaming media files including High Definition (HD) contents in QuickTime format. If you don’t want to install full package of QuickTime setup which includes QuickTime Player and other non essential components, and just want to view embedded QuickTime media on web page, […]
“With Vista Codec Package installed you won’t need to install any other codecs”, boosted developers of Vista Codec Package, which now has been updated to version 4.5.4 Beta 1. Vista Codec Package (VCP) intends to have least amount of codecs on your system that ‘just-enough’ to all your playback need, as when dealing with codecs, more does not equal better and having the least amount […]
In Windows Vista Start Menu, on the right pane, there are plenty of shortcuts to system folders and personal user shell folders such as Documents, Pictures, Music, Games, Computer, Network and Connect To. If you’re not using these folders and do not need easy shortcut access to these folders from Start Menu, you can remove any or all of the folders from Start Menu of […]
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