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Feedly: Google Reader alternative

On 14th March 2013 Google announced that it will discontinue and remove Google Reader RSS aggregator from its free services - with the date of final stop being set to 1st July 2013. Truth is, the situ...

Disable lock screen in Windows 8

Whilst the lock screen in Windows 8 is not something that bothers you with touch screen, it can be really annoying on desktop computer, because you have to log back every time you are inactive for a w...

Convert Linux distribution packages

Converting linux packages can be really hard. Luckily there is a program called alien that can convert most of the common Linux distribution packages.

Speed up your MacBook with a new SSD drive

Expandability of Apple Mac laptop computers is very limited. In most cases you are able to upgrade only RAM memory modules and hard drive. However in past few years, the prices of very fast SSD (Solid...

Clone your Mac system disk to a new hard drive (SSD)

Whenever you want to replace hard drive by a new one, or change it to the SSD in your MacBook Pro (as well as in other types of Mac computers), you will need also re-install the Mac OS X on the new dr...

Convert ISZ to ISO

ISZ is one of the many ISO-like disk image file formats. It can be frustrating to install app for every format you encounter so most users prefer simple ISOs. In this article we provide simple informa...

Enable TRIM on Mac

The SSD drives have problems with reduction of speed after prolonged using. The solve is called TRIM command. It is informing the SSD disk that the blocks are no longer used and can be deleted. It is...

From H.264 to H.265 codec

Run Android apps on Mac

Do you want to run Android apps on Mac? Now it is possible to run apps run them without Android APKs or other complex developer tools, because programmers of popular BlueStacks App Player Android virt...

Create bootable USB flash drive with multiple Windows installations

Microsoft Windows operating system supports since version Vista the installation from USB flash drives. Unfortunately, Windows is able to create only one installation per USB drive, but there is a way...

Convert ebooks for free

There is hundreds of various ebook readers and dozens of ebook file formats on market. It can sometimes be really tiresome to find converter that can easily perform conversions between individual for...

What's new in Office 2013

Let's take a peak on what's new in the Microsoft Office 2013 that after three years replaces the 2010 edition and what it offers to its users.

The best web browsers for iPad

The default browser installed in iPad and other devices with Apple iOS system is Safari. However, on Apple App Store there are alternative browsers available, which have other interesting features to...

Copy files to iPhone through FTP protocol

Apple iPhone contains some annoying restrictions. For example, it is unable to work as a mass storage device and you cannot simply copy files over to it. However we will show you how to use Apple iPho...

Fix broken JAR association caused by Nokia PC Suite

We will show you how you can easily fix broken JAR file associations caused by programs like Nokia PC Suite!

Extract contacts from SBU backups

Your smartphone broke down, was stolen or is otherwise lost and the only thing you really need are the contacts. If you have SBU backup do not despair, you can get contacts out of them, and we will sh...

Run Acronis TIB as virtual machine

Acronis operating system backups stored in TIB files can be run in virtualization applications like VMware Workstation. However, it requires a few steps before you can do so and we will show you how t...

How to extract icons

Computer icons are popular way how to distinguish programs from each other with a nice small pictogram. While in the past icons were usually saved as a separate file in the program folder, nowadays th...

Convert AA to MP3

Audible is one of the largest provider of digital audiobooks. These audiobooks (AA or AAX format) are DRM protect and can only be played back on "audible ready" devices. However, there are some ways h...

Generate a directory listing or file list in Windows

To manually create directory listing of huge database of your files, movies, music, photos etc. with many subdirectories can be a very annoying and time consuming activity. However, there exists an ea...

Change file extension of multiple files in Windows

It is very annoying, when you need to change extension of multiple files one by one. Luckily, there are possibilities how to do this job easy in just a few minutes and we will show you some of them. T...

Convert ebooks to Kindle formats

Amazon Kindle is a series of popular e-book reading devices. Sadly, Kindle does not support the current e-book standard - ePUB file format and utilizes its own proprietary formats AZW or KF8. In this...

Play DVD in Windows 8

Windows 8 are not able to playback DVDs, unless you purchase PRO version or Windows Media Center Pack. However, there are some great 3rd party alternatives for Windows 8 and in this article we will sh...

JCD Format Structure

Thanks to Nikola Bozovic, we can provide you with almost full file structure of JCD file format. This format of file is saved with FlashGet version 1.73 build 128.

Run VirtualBox machine in Virtual PC

VirtualBox is a complex open source virtualization suite for various platforms used mostly on Unix-based systems. Even though it is also available for Windows operating systems, Windows users prefer m...

Convert CDR files for free

Opening and converting CorelDraw's CDR format can be really pain in the ass. Luckily there is a little utility called UniConvertor that allows you to convert CDR images to other vector formats like AI...

Windows 8 desktop theme sources

Because it sometimes hard to find great sites for Windows 8 themes, we have prepared a small list of best Windows 8 deskthemepack resource sites, in which you can find beautiful themes from all differ...

Use Windows 8 desktop themes on Windows 7

Windows 8 has a new feature that allows wide desktop wallpaper to be extended on dual monitor systems. Sadly, these Windows 8 panoramatic themes cannot be just simply used on Windows 7 machines and yo...

Antivirus for Mac

As Apple's Mac OS X platform is more and more popular, the more interesting target it represents for the bad guys. While Windows-like computer viruses are pretty rare on Mac or Linux platform, there a...

Edit hosts file in Windows

Hosts file is an important system file that stores configuration for IP network protocol. It is used to map the hostnames to IP addresses. It is often modified to redirect domain names to local addres...

Edit hosts file on Mac

Hosts file is IP network protocol configuration file used by operating system to map the hostnames to IP addresses. Often it is being modified to block malicious sites or sites with inappropriate cont...

Extract audio tracks from NRG disk image

NRG is default disk image format used by Nero Burning ROM CD/DVD/Blu-ray authoring software to store complete digital images of optical discs, including audio tracks. You can easily extract these audi...

Create custom ringtone for Windows Phone on Mac

Custom ringtone is one of the most popular customization used on mobile phones. This feature is also integrated in the Windows Phone from version 7.5 (Mango) and we will introduce you how to create an...

Restore or extract Blackberry bbb backup files

Check out some Info about BBB Blackberry backup format and basic information about its restoration or extracting individual parts of its content.

Split one music mix to separate audio tracks

Many DJs and music producers release their compiled music mixes in big audio tracks (MP3, AAC, FLAC). If you want to extract individual song from a DJ set. There is a one easy solution how to do it. Y...

Run AIR apps

Adobe AIR is one of the most under-appreciated application platforms, although you can find many great apps. In this article we will cover the basics about installing and running Adobe AIR apps on you...