Mitch Keeler

Need yet another powerful alternative to WinZip for zipping and unzipping your files? Well I can give you one, and I’ll even do it for free. While looking for other good zipping programs that have not gotten a lot of press, I found ZipGenius. I might be able to say it is one of the [...]

There are dozens of ways for you to download videos from the various video sharing Web sites out there like YouTube, but there are not that many places that let you know what you can do with them after you have captured them onto your own personal computer. The only good Flash movie player I [...]

A good text editor is like that old smelly pair of socks you refuse to change. You like how they feel, and you have just gotten used to the smell. I don’t know too many people who change text editors after they find one they like, but hopefully I’ll get those folks out there that [...]

I have said it before: The simple programs are sometimes the best. Looking at different alarm applications out there, it was hard to find one I liked. They all seemed to be tied into another program or were too feature rich for my liking. I just needed on thing done and done well - is [...]

Around every week or so I like to change my desktop wallpaper. It is kind of my reward for a week’s worth of work I guess you could say. No matter how dull or sad you might find that, you have to admit one thing. It is not an easy task to do. No matter [...]

One feature that I really like in Windows XP is the ability to preview photos and graphics as thumbnails, though some may say that they are too big and take up too much space. Do you really need that much of a preview to see what the photo is? If you want graphic previews for [...]

The quick launch tool provided by the task bar in Windows is outdated and just does not do the job for me anymore. I have too many programs I like to use, and for me, quick launch just seems less efficient than some of the other options out there. To launch my programs quickly, I [...]

I really love finding neat programs that are simple in nature and just do a job really well. One program I ran across the other day that fits that description is Hot Corners. What is Hot Corners all about? Well, it allows you to set specific actions depending on which part of the screen your [...]

One thing that everybody seems to want to know more about is the number of programs that launch when your computer starts up. Now Windows has a pretty good tool to figure this all out by default, but it doesn’t tell you very much. I wanted to find something that would give me more and [...]

I have always wanted to talk to my computer. Well, let me take that back - I talk to my computer all the time. I have probably called it every four-letter word in the book. It does not understand what I am saying though. It is just a dumb box of PC parts. If you [...]