Windows Guides reader, Joey Alvarez, shares the following offer from Iobit:
Get your Iobit Security 360 Pro 1-year license (email address required.)
See my review | Keith’s review | randomchaos’ review
Offer expires November 11, 2009.
Windows Forums on the iPhone and iPod Touch
On October - 18 - 2009Comments Off
If you have an iPhone or iPod touch, you can now use Windows Forums on it. In this guide, you’ll learn how to set your iPhone up to browse the forums.
There was some previous interest for Windows Forums on the iPhone and to be honest, I was hoping something like this would come along because I didn’t want to customize the forums myself only to find a professional solution was in the works. I have no idea how long this app has been out, but after a search for “phpbb” (the software on which Windows Forums runs) on the Apple App Store, this was the only solution I could find.
Please note: In this guide, I show you the Lite version of the app. You can buy the normal version for $0.99 USD, which enables private messaging and removes the “Posted with TouchBB Lite” message at the bottom of each post (well, probably, but I haven’t tried.) Read the rest of this entry »
James, from LAlarm.com, offers the following tip:
Don’t throw your old USB flash drive away. Instead, you can use an old flash drive to prevent your laptop from being stolen. Here is how.
This guest post is written by Patrick Jobin who gives eight tips for picking an online backup for your Windows Laptop. Find 0ut more about Patrick at the end of this article.
1. Make sure it’s properly encrypted
When traveling or working remotely, you can never be too sure about the integrity of your network or the other people who might be using it. When picking an online backup system for your Windows laptop, make sure you pick one that offers the right encryption options for your needs.
If you’re worried about securing the confidential data stored on your laptop, you want to make sure that your data is properly encrypted during transmission using a strong protocol such as SSL, and that the data stays encrypted when stored on the providers remote server using a password that’s only known by you. (And not the online backup provider)
If you spend a lot of time in Gmail, Google Reader or Hotmail reading email and feeds, or if you have a Facebook addiction. Then Prism is a great app for you!
Prism is an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop.
I only came across this last week and find it invaluable already!
How To Change The Windows 7 Start Orb
On October - 15 - 2009Comments Off
This guide will show you how to change the start orb in Windows 7, for the sake of simplicity and article length, i’ll only be showing how to change the orb with the taskbar along the bottom. (Start Orb bottom left).
If you have Photoshop or GIMP, then you can go ahead and even make your own. I’ve posted one i’ve made in the forums and it has the PSD included for a template if you want it.
Note: You need to have access to the admin account in order to complete this guide. Please read through this guide thoroughly before proceeding, and take it slow!
Without further ado, let get on with it!
If you are making a PowerPoint presentation, poster, graphic, or anything that requires typography, you may find some of these fonts useful. There many free fonts out there but it is often hard to find good ones as there is so much choice and so many fonts are not very high quality. In these collections, I attempt to find the best free fonts out there and provide direct download links to them so you can start using them straight away. If you are unsure of how to install a font, learn here.
Check out more font collections on Mintywhite.com
