“Free disk defragmenter for Windows? No way, there’s no such thing I can trust!” I guess you recognize these words… and if you never thought or said something like it, that’s even better! Speaking for myself, I used various commercial disk defragmenters for Windows in the late 90s and the first part of the current [...]

I don’t want to save the world, and if I could, I would do the same thing as you do with a drive that’s fragmented beyond any hope of recovery – format it! Anyway, if you’re the religious type, be glad that I am not God, but no matter if you believe in something or [...]

If I think well, virtually any forum on the Internet involving discussions about computers and software can’t avoid a topic about the best Internet browser, or at least one starting with a poll asking you about the browser you’re using. Now, this is nothing out of ordinary – there are also a lot of silly [...]

A few days ago, a buddy of mine asked me about a tool to combine more than two PDF files. So far, so good, but he also added the “free” part, leaving me completely in the dark. So, we need a tool to combine PDF files – more than just two of them, and that [...]

Today, we’ll take things from a completely different angle than usually, and I have a serious reason to do that. What kind of reason? My sanity, that’s the reason! Serious enough? No, don’t worry, I won’t go crazy if I write about some other interesting program, but I was very close to that point yesterday, [...]

I am sure that most Windows users tried the sound recorder included with their OS to record their own voices, but I am also sure that only a few ended this and were happy with the result. No, it’s not the fact that the recording software seems to be the same since the early days [...]

I am sure my mom won’t ever need more than one clipboard, but what should the rest of us do when one Windows clipboard is far from enough? Thinking about me, sometimes I have to paste links, text fragments, as well as passwords that I don’t use too often and keep stored… somewhere. Moving back [...]

Having a clean Windows desktop can save somebody’s life one day, maybe even your life, and if you think I am joking, think about this: instead of missing your train and having to take a bus and then die in an accident, you will catch that train and arrive safely to the destination. That’s the [...]

Sometimes, it would be better to take the easy way out, and I must confess I am one of those who embrace the KISS approach for most of the time. What does that mean? I like to keep it short & simple, that’s all! For example, why merge MP3 files using some advanced audio editor, [...]

The latest email that I received has the following subject: “How Secure is your Backup Data?” Obviously, this is not a spam message, it’s just one newsletter I get from time to time from InfoWorld. This wasn’t supposed to be the introduction of this article, but it came along extremely well, since I decided what’s [...]