Computer Corner

Real-world Computer and Internet Access issues are addressed here.


Recover Photos From a Memory Card
[22 Dec 2008]
DataDoctor.org offers a file recovery program to recover lost files from a memory card. It offers a free trial download of its Memory card data ...
Microsoft SyncToy
[19 Dec 2008]
V2 published in August, it keeps files and folders in step with each other. Runs on Vista and XP and requires the .Net V2 framework. Here ...
Yahoo! Answers For Content?
[01 Oct 2008]
Here's a suggestion from Internet Marketing Firm PrimaryAffect.com if you're having trouble thinking of material for your blog: Use Yahoo! Answers ...
The History of Unix
[02 Oct 2008]
Here is a flowchart of the history of Unix, available in full glory at WikiMedia - Unix History. Awesome!
Google Search is now Ten: Never Look Back!
[27 Sep 2008]
Google was founded ten years ago by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford computer students. They had developed the Backrub search engine ...
Google Insights
[01 Sep 2008]
Use this link to see Google Insights for the last seven days which shows you Google's view of the trending topics. You can filter by category ...
Media Centre PC Cases
[30 Jul 2008]
Best prices were found at AfterHours.co.uk SilverStone Grandia GD01S-MXR with MCE Remote and LCD Display Silver Case  SST-GD01S-MXR ...
Quiet Media Center PC
[28 Jul 2008]
Our current lounge PC is rather noisy and ugly, and is also prone to crashing. High-graphics games will suddenly hang, until allowed to continue ...
AVG Burning Bandwidth and Wrecking Web Stats
[02 Jul 2008]
Grisoft, the makers of AVG, are being accused of wasting users' bandwidth and "destroying Web analytics as we know it". Grisoft's AVG - the anti ...
Sentry Lite for Instant Messenger Monitoring
[01 Jun 2008]
Sentry Lite is free monitoring software that claims to offer parents and computer administrators the ability to monitor both sides of instant ...
Facebook Needs More Servers
[10 May 2008]
From Marketing Pilgrim, Facebook is borrowing $100 million for more servers which should see it clear to getting another 50000 servers. By ...
Media Center Randomly Changes Channel
[13 Feb 2008]
We had a situation recently where our Windows Media Center (running on Vista x64) would change channel and volume without our doing. Some nights ...
Google Logo Celebrates 2008 and TCP/IP
[01 Jan 2008]
It's been twenty five years since TCP/IP was officially adopted as an international protocol, and Google has taken the time to create a rather ...
BBC Micro Pioneer on Honours List
[29 Dec 2007]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/technology/7162935.stm One of the designers of the classic BBC Micro computer is recognised in the New ...
Surge Protection
[25 Dec 2007]
One of our computers has been randomly freezing recently. It doesn't seem to be overheating, so I suspect that there may be noise on the mains ...
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