2008 April

Grab your oven mitts and don your Chef’s Hat!
Cooking Academy is the game that places you in the kitchens of a prestigious culinary school! From Pancakes to Creme Brulee, prepare over 50 different recipes! Learn interesting trivia about food while mastering the skills of chopping, mashing, flipping, frying, and more! Unlock new recipes and […]

Kantaris can play almost anything you can throw at it: AVI (DivX, Xvid, H264), MPEG, MGEG-AVC, WMV, MOV, MKV, FLV, MP3, WMA, and OGG files. It can also play DVDs and audio CDs. The player also displays beautiful visualizations for music.
Kantaris is an all new media player based on code from VideoLan Client (VLC) […]

Blogging is a global phenomenon, and people from every corner of the globe have taken part in it. If you think reading blogs by people that are close to you geographically is interesting, then you should try reading blogs written by people from other countries because you can really get an interesting perspective from them. […]

Dear Chris,
My name is Yaser Sulaiman. I’m a Syrian graduate computer science student who is studying in Saudi Arabia.
Although I have been watching your great videos for a couple of months now, I didn’t “formally” join the community until recently. I go under the nickname yaserbuntu.
I wanted to share with you and the community my […]

The Notification Area, located in the bottom corner of your desktop, displays several icons, some of which you may never use. You can clean up the Notification Area in Vista by removing such icons.
To remove an icon from the Notification Area in Vista:

Right click an empty area of the notification area and click Properties.

The dialog […]

Disk Quotas were introduced in Windows 2000 and carried through to Vista. Disk Quotas lets administrators to limit how much disk space users’ can use on a volume that is formatted with NTFS. Disk Quota limits are based on file ownership. This means that if a User A creates a 300 Kb file, their disk […]

WD Caviar SE16 drives combine 16 MB cache with 3 Gb/s transfer rate for lightning-fast performance in demanding desktop and workstation applications. Technologically advanced acoustics minimize noise and cool drive operation and enhanced reliability features help protect the drive and the data stored on it.
Designed for use in the fastest PCs on the market, […]

Is there a better setting for an adventure game than an old house full of secret rooms and hidden corridors? No! And Treasure House has plenty of these and more!
Join Natalie Brooks, our intrepid heroine as she solves puzzles, finds hidden items and interacts with colorful characters, including a chief of police whose ambitions […]

VaultletSuite 2 Go makes it easy for you to protect and control your email, passwords, and valuable portable files, wherever you and USB drive may roam. VaultletSuite 2 Go uses industrial strength Open Source 2048 bit RSA public key and 256 AES encryption.
[317K] [Win95/98/ME/2k/XP/Vista] [FREE]

A couple of years ago I had the strong desire to write a screenplay, and I finally took the time to do it. It was a big project, but I enjoyed the process immensely. I was convinced that I was going to sell it when a number of the producers that I sent it to […]

Gnomie Christopher Levo writes:
Hey Chris,
For a solid month, I’ve been looking for a program or a company that can take a DVD I have with over 3 GB of images and somehow pull them off of what seems to be a corrupted part of the disc. These are images of my fiance and I together, […]

Word includes a function that lets you convert text into table format. For example, if you have a list of words you think would be better displayed in a table format, you can tell Word to put the text into a table for you.
You need to decide how to separate the text into columns. […]

Some people may want to increase the default font size in Vista, possibly to help overcome visual impairments. Vista makes it simple for users to increase the font size to suit their individual preferences and physical needs.
In a previous tip, I showed you how to increase the font size in Vista. If you are […]

The Compaq Presario SR5102HM Desktop Computer from Hewlett-Packard is a great computer for home, office, and school work. The computer has hardware and software tools that allow you to get online and connect digital devices such as cameras and MP3 players.
The Presario comes with multimedia software such as Roxio Creator with LightScribe for DVD and […]

PC World’s editors selected these top utilities that’ll help you optimize, improve, and protect your PC.

Cygwin
Add some Linux features to your PC with this freebie.

RegClean
Clean your Windows Registry of corrupted or unused Registry keys.

Motherboard Monitor
Find out if your PC is overheating with this free utility.

WinPatrol 2007
Kill off unwanted background programs like worms, adware, […]

Welcome once again to the wonderful world of the Rainbow Kingdom!
Your road takes you to the Royal Palace, the last citadel of evil in this magic land, where you must restore 14 unique rooms throughout the Palace. Complete 82 challenging levels to bring back the former splendor of the castle by clearing the spider […]

Sleipnir is designed to be a highly customizable browser that you can configure to suit your individual needs.
With Sleipnir, you can create your ideal browser by changing the design, skin, and visual appearance. You can also add custom functionality to Sleipnir with a wide range of plugins and user scripts.
[4.42M] [Win98/ME/2k/XP/Vista] [FREE]

When we’re in the mood for an entertaining distraction on the Internet, many of us turn to online games or video to fill that need, and while that’s great and all, I can’t help but wonder what happened to comics. Sure, you’ll still find comics in the newspaper and there are plenty of them online, […]

DJ Gnomie Cyrus writes:
Hello Chris,
I’m an aspiring DJ (currently I do it as a hobby). I love Open Source, and find that the quality is often higher than that found with a lot of proprietary software. Oh, and it’s free! I put together a digital “toolbox” of such stuff I find useful for Windows in […]

Some people may want to increase the default font size in Vista, possibly to help overcome visual impairments. Vista makes it simple for users to increase the font size to suit their individual preferences and physical needs.
To increase the font size in Vista:

Right click a blank part of the desktop.

Click the Personalize option.

On the […]