Computer Corner

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

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123-Reg Whois Privacy

11 Jan 2009

Be warned, if you purchase Whois Privacy (or domain privacy) from 123-Reg: they do not enable privacy automatically, so you need to go into the ...

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?

23 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

03 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

29 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

07 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

02 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 ...

XP Dynamic Disks

26 Apr 2008

I had a problem recently with an IDE hard drive formatted with a single NTFS partition, that used to sit in a Windows 2000 machine. Having installed ...

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 ...

Windows Vista SP1 Released

Windows Vista 05 Feb 2008

From windowsvistablog.com "Microsoft has said that Windows Vista SP1 is released to manufacturing and it should become available on Windows ...