‘Print’ anything into a PDF file using PDFCreator, a convenient method of saving documents, webpages, and anything else that can be printed into PDF files. Download it here at pdfforge.org. When you install it, it’ll setup a ‘printer’ on your … Continue reading
While there exists a seemingly infinite number of ways to send files to your friends, Windows Live Foldershare takes the cake for being the most convenient — once you set it up, which can have its own quirks here and … Continue reading
As a follow up to our post on getting speech recognition for Windows XP (and 98, 2000), we’ve decided to write a series of tutorials on controlling your applications with it (The speech recognition is not as full featured as … Continue reading
Using a file from Microsoft’s Speech SDK, we can install both Japanese and Chinese speech recognition engines into Windows. This serves as a follow up to our previous post on getting speech recognition for free in Windows XP. Head over … Continue reading
Keeping all the software we have on a computer updated is a pain – open this program, check for updates, open this program’s updater – Secunia Personal Software Inspector takes the work out by profiling all your programs and then … Continue reading
One of the features included with Windows Vista was speech recognition, a supposed feature that would revolutionize how we use computers: We totally believe speech recognition will go mainstream somewhere over the next decade. – Bill Gates, Sept. 2005 (view … Continue reading
Now that we’ve setup Ubuntu on our virtual machine (see here if you missed setting up the virtual machine), we can go ahead and configure it to become seamless. Login to Ubuntu Login to Ubuntu as soon as it starts. … Continue reading
We’re going to show you how to install Ubuntu on a virtual machine using Sun’s VirtualBox, and then setup seamless mode to allow running Windows and Ubuntu applications within the same environment (see the picture to the left). Why is … Continue reading
Defragmenting your computer’s hard drive is always a burdensome task that most people either ignore or run very infrequently. Using JKDefragGUI’s screensaver feature, we can defragment the disk without bothering ourselves with running the Windows built-in defragmenter. Download JKDefragGUI here … Continue reading
In this post, we’ll be showing you how to create image overlays (somewhat like the ones here without the stretch animation) in Microsoft Powerpoint. For this tutorial, we’ll be using 2003, but the instructions can easily be adapted to other … Continue reading
