If you work with computers a lot you would have, at some point, forgotten passwords, either online in your web browser or inside Windows applications. Quite often these passwords are saved by Windows and displayed as asterisks * ***. So what do you do if you need to reveal the password that is hidden underneath those asterisks? Fortunately there… [Read the Rest]
Funny Google Maps Trick
Here is one to kill some time if you’re bored. Go to Google Maps and click ‘Get Directions’ from Japan to China. Follow down the list of directions and pay attention to step #42! You could just click here to go straight to the directions page too… (Don’t worry, it opens in a new window… [Read the Rest]
Solved: Can’t Access My Recovery Partition & I Don’t Have Any Recovery CD’s!
Today I was fixing up a laptop for a friend. It was an Acer Aspire 6930 running Windows Vista Home Premium (x86), it appeared that the MBR (Master Boot Record) needed repairing. So using the Vista Recovery CD I was able to use the BOOTREC /FIXMBR and BOOTREC /FIXBOOT commands. Unfortunately that didn’t solve my… [Read the Rest]
Recovery Console For XP Without CD: The Easiest Method
Today I was in a bit of a pickle. I needed to use the Windows XP Recovery Console to use the ‘fixboot’ and ‘fixmbr’ commands on a PC that I was repairing but I didn’t have an XP CD handy that included the recovery console. Microsoft provide a utility to make a set of 6… [Read the Rest]
Terraria: So Addictive It Turns Minutes Into Hours
Once in a while you come across a game that is so much fun to play that you just can’t put it down. I recently came across the title Terraria which was produced by a small team of programmers a couple of months ago this game has quite often been the reason for some really… [Read the Rest]
Reset Windows Media Player 12 To Default Settings
I have been having a lot of troubles with my Windows Media Player on Windows 7 but I found this cool trick that allows you to reset WMP12 back to it’s default settings. This might be handy if you are encountering any issues of your own. Simply to go Start > Run (or hold down… [Read the Rest]
Solved: ‘Blue Screen Of Death’ When Booting From WinXP CD
Here is a quick tip for fixing an issue that caused me some grief this afternoon when I was trying to downgrade an installation of Vista back to XP on an ASUS F6A notebook computer. This fix may well apply to a lot of other systems too. When I tried booting from my WinXP installation… [Read the Rest]
Dropbox: How Did We Live Without It?
Dropbox is possibly one of the single most useful web services (besides GMail) that I have ever used. For those of you who don’t know what Dropbox is, it basically allows you to synchronise files and folders between multiple computers across any internet connection. If you install Dropbox onto 4 computers for example then any… [Read the Rest]
How To Win Rock Paper Scissors Everytime
I always thought Rock, Paper, Scissors was a game of total chance, I was totally wrong. Apparently there is some psychology and strategy behind it. The ‘World Rock, Paper, Scissors Society’ runs a World Championship with $50,000 going to the winner! Read the full article to find out how to win Rock, Paper, Scissors.