Every month we take a look around some of the most interesting windows-related web sites. We collect the best free stuff and write tips to help you get more out of Windows. Below you’ll find wallpapers, icon packs, fonts, screensavers, and freeware we’ve found over the last 30 days. We’ve also put together our most popular windows guides.
Enjoy the overview of stuff you shouldn’t have missed in September 2009
A collection of desktop wallpapers for Windows, OS X, and Linux. If you have wallpapers you’ve made yourself or if you have any suggestions, leave them in the comments or contact me.
A round up of the best icon packs on the web. Full credit goes to the image authors. Let us know about any others you really like!
Check out more icon collections on Mintywhite.com or learn how to use these on a dock in Windows.
I wish I could say that this is free, but none of the free options were high enough quality for me to recommend. That being said, it is by far the best solution for remoting into your Windows machine. Whether you are a gadget lover who likes having the coolest toys, the productivity geek who needs to have multiple solutions to every problem, or even the Windows SYS Admin who wants to be prepared…. just in case; if you need the best solution to remote in, I recommend Jaadu. It’s 25 bucks, which for an iPhone app isn’t cheap, but if you need remote desktop access it’s 25 dollars well-spent.
I’d write up a step-by-step of how to install it on Windows, but Jaadu already beat me to it with great Vista & XP guides already written up.
Jaadu RDP gives you full control of your PC’s mouse and keyboard while providing a rich visual display of your computer screen on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Jaadu RDP’s patent pending TouchPad interface lets you use applications running on your PC easily and efficiently.
Jaadu RDP lets you stream audio directly from your PC to your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Jaadu RDP is secure, using data encryption for all communication with your PC.
Jaadu RDP uses Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol to communicate directlywith your Windows machine. This means better performance and no additional software downloads to access your PC. Just configure your system and go!
International keyboard support.
Your PC in your Pocket. Anywhere, anytime.
Detailed Features List
For Administrators:
Installation instructions for Vista
Installation instructions for XP
P.S. If you really want to go crazy with remote desktop with the iPhone you can go in reverse & login to your iPhone from your PC. You might wonder “Why would I want to login to my tiny iPhone screen when I have my PC?” but it can come in handy if you like keeping your notes all on your iPhone (and you’re not a fan of Evernote), for example. Click here for details on Veency.
Windows Guides reader, TheManRetired, offers two guides to help users who are new to Windows. The first guide covers installation of Ashampoo Burning Studio 6 Free. This second guide covers setting up your first backup to CD or DVD. If you’d like to provide help (simple, advanced etc., let me know.)
Hopefully you have the program installed but if you don’t I have written up an installation document that shows how to install it and where to get the program with a link to site that I know has it, so here we are going to start using the program. The screen shot here are made using the FastStone Capture program. With Burning Studio you can backup just about anything that is on your hard drive but I suggest only backing up what you have created as you can never get all the files and registry setting for programs and it is safer and better to reinstall the programs anyway so they set right and work and you don’t have to try and find out why they are not working like before. Here I am backing some music files that I ripped from my cd’s but the principles apply to all your files, you will just have to change the location of where you get the files to places on your hard drive and sorry this document will not go into all the places on your hard drive that the files are, most of them on a windows system will be in my documents(or just documents depending on your version) and most of them are located under your user account in either Documents and Settings or under Users depending on your version of windows, I am not going into any Linux or Mac systems as I don’t have them but if you want to give me one I would be happy to write up a document like this for those systems.
Windows Guides reader, TheManRetired, offers two guides to help users who are new to Windows. This first guide covers installation of Ashampoo Burning Studio 6 Free. The second guide covers setting up your first backup to CD or DVD. If you’d like to provide help (simple, advanced etc., let me know.)
Here is how to backup just about anything you want to a recordable CD or DVD. These instructions where made using Ashampoo Burning Studio 6 Free with the FastStone Capture program.
If you use Google Calendar, you’ll know how useful and simple it is. In this guide, you’ll learn about a tool, which brings your Google Calendar entries to your desktop.
Unfortunately, for those of us that have an OCD with changing icons, and tricking out our desktops, there’s never been an easy way to manually change the drive icons in ‘Computer’. There are plenty of programs out there that can do the job for us but I’m a believer, in doing things the hard way!
This guide will show you how to edit the registry so you can use your own icons for your drives in ‘Computer’ (Windows Explorer). Read the rest of this entry »
If you run a website, you’ll know how important it is to keep file sizes down and optimize images, code, and files as much as possible. In this guide, I take a look at four image optimization tools, share their features, and compare them against each other.
Removing the shutdown options from the start menu may not be everyone’s cup of tea. This registry hack may come in handy if you’re performing a large backup or downloading a big file and you share your computer with other family members/colleagues and don’t want them inadvertently turning off your computer half through the job.
This guide obviously involves editing the registry. Please see here before modifying your registry.
I’ve written two reg. files you can download here if you don’t want to manually edit the registry. See here on ways to add these files to the registry
For those of you who don’t mind getting stuck in, here we go.
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