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Using your Android Smartphone As A Mobile Wi-Fi Hotspot
You’re out and about with your laptop and in desperate need of an internet connection but there isn’t a Starbucks for miles! You need to send that email your boss wants, so what options do you have in such an emergency? Well luckily for you, your Android powered smartphone comes to the rescue. Most modern [...]
Start Firefox In Private Browsing Mode By Default
Firefox’s private browsing mode is great for surfing the internet without leaving any history of your travels. This is great if you share a computer and don’t want everyone else knowing your online business. Just a quick word of warning. Private browsing does not make you anonymous online. It only stops Firefox from collecting a [...]
How To Watch TV Online
There are several ways to watch TV online these days and today I’ll be explaining the various ways in which to achieve this, as well as the pros and cons of each. Anyway, let’s get started with the easiest… Official Web Players Whether you live in the US, UK, Germany or anywhere in the world [...]
How To Use Windows Easy Transfer
So, you’ve just got yourself a fancy new computer and you want to know the easiest way to transfer all your old files and settings from your old PC to the new one. Luckily, Windows 7 has an easy way to help you do this. For this tutorial, I am assuming both of your computers [...]
How To Create A Bootable Linux Distribution On A USB Pen Drive
Today I will show you how to make a bootable USB pen drive with your choice of Linux installation image on it. This will work with both standard install images as well as with the live versions. Making a bootable pen drive has many advantages over a CD or DVD such as increased reliability, vastly [...]
Download YouTube Videos The Easy Way
There are several ways you can go about downloading YouTube videos including dedicated software, download websites and browser extensions/plugins. I find that the Firefox extension “Download YouTube Videos as MP4 and FLV” is the easiest and gives you the most useful options without having to install any suspect software on your computer. Using this extension [...]
Defrag And Optimize Your Hard Drive With Smart Defrag
Defragging your hard drive can give your PC a boost in performance by reorganizing the data in a more efficient way. Defragging can also increases the lifespan of your hard drive by reducing the amount of physical movements the drive has to perform. What Does Defragging Do? When your computer writes data to its hard [...]
Giving A Slow Laptop A Speed Boost
So you’ve got a slow laptop and it’s driving you mad! It’s taking an age to boot up into Windows, and once you’re eventually logged in, the whole system seems sluggish. The start button is slow to respond, programs take an age to load and you get random system hangs or even worse, your laptop [...]
Using CCleaner To Remove Unwanted Files And Fix PC Errors
So you want to now how to use CCleaner to clear out all the garbage files from your PC? CCleaner makes optimizing your PC a breeze. CCleaner deletes your browser history, temporary internet files and cookies as well as deleting unused system temp files etc. CCleaner also has a built in registry cleaner. All windows [...]
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