Supporting Technology

Tim Smith, Computeractive, Thursday 29 July 2010 at 00:00:00

Use the image editor from a USB stick

The GIMP image editor is a very powerful program. It's greatest disadvantage has been that installation can be a little tricky....

Tim Smith, Computeractive, Thursday 29 July 2010 at 00:00:00

Template-driven web design tool

It often seems that it is only possible to create really good-looking websites with an in-depth knowledge of complicated languages....

Tim Smith, Computeractive, Thursday 29 July 2010 at 00:00:00

Keep all of your passwords in one safe place

Whether the answer is one or hundreds, Password Safe allows you to safely and easily create a secured and encrypted user name/password list....

Tim Smith, Computeractive, Thursday 29 July 2010 at 00:00:00

Much improved program Start menu

The Start Menu is something used every day but the options for personalising it are rather limited. The Vista Start Menu is an alternative that puts more information on the...

Tim Smith, Computeractive, Wednesday 28 July 2010 at 00:00:00

Backup & restore your drive

This is the software publisher's description: DriveImage XML is an easy-to-use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives....

Tim Smith, Computeractive, Wednesday 28 July 2010 at 10:49:00

Get more information about computer health from the Windows 7 computer

Taskbar Meters take advantage of the improvements made to the Windows 7 taskbar. Taskbar Meters displays a separate icon for CPU, memory and hard disk activity that gradually fills as the...

Tim Smith, Computeractive, Friday 23 July 2010 at 10:33:00

Keep track of your todo list online

There are plenty of online task managers but if you want one to run on a home or business network or on your own domain, Taskfreak is powerful and still...

Tim Smith, Computeractive, Thursday 22 July 2010 at 15:04:00

A free and lightweight alternative to Adobe Reader

Sumatra PDF is an ideal program for quickly reading PDF files. It is both small and fast. Installation is simple and it is even possible to run it from a...

Tim Smith, Computeractive, Tuesday 20 July 2010 at 16:59:00

An easy way to design rough ideas of web page design

Pencil is a tool for the stage of webdesign known as wireframing. This is when the layout of the page is decided....

Tim Smith, Computeractive, Thursday 15 July 2010 at 00:00:00

Major revision to the popular security suite

Kaspersky Internet Security is the latest in the line of software packages offering full protection in one place. The antivirus component checks all emails as they arrive on the computer...

Tim Smith, Computeractive, Thursday 15 July 2010 at 17:26:00

Find out more about your social-network contacts in Outlook

With more of us using both Facebook and LinkedIn for communication and networking, the Social Connector for Microsoft Outlook is a useful tool....

Tim Smith, Computeractive, Monday 12 July 2010 at 16:03:00

A challenging puzzle game

Tile World is a remake of the game Chip's Challenge, in which the player has to collect computer chips from levels full of puzzles that have been set by his...

Tim Smith, Computeractive, Friday 9 July 2010 at 17:04:00

Take control of your Desktop wallpaper

The Windows wallpaper is one personalisation that just about every user has, whether at home or work. The options in Windows are a little limited, especially if you are using...

Tim Smith, Computeractive, Monday 5 July 2010 at 00:00:00

Replace Notepad with a more capable version

Many people use Notepad for editing simple text documents and program/webpage code because it is small and fast. The disadvantage is that it lacks many features that would be very...

Tim Smith, Computeractive, Thursday 1 July 2010 at 15:19:00

An excellent content management system for beginners

Using a content management system (CMS) for your website means that it can be edited from any computer with an internet connection and a web browser regardless of what software...

Tim Smith, Computeractive, Thursday 1 July 2010 at 11:54:00

Take a look at the future of this web browser

Opera is a popular browser with some of the best support for standards. Opera 10 promises even faster web surfing, built in spell checker and HTML emails....

Tim Smith, Computeractive, Wednesday 30 June 2010 at 11:49:00

Keep track of all your tasks online

Having a website is normally thought of as something that has a public purpose to promote yourself or an organisation....

Tim Smith, Computeractive, Tuesday 29 June 2010 at 00:00:00

Make sure you take breaks from your computer

It's a well established fact that regular, short breaks from working at a computer are important, but it is easy to get lost in work and forget to....

Tim Smith, Computeractive, Tuesday 29 June 2010 at 12:53:00

Get advanced warning of hard disk problems

The worst part of a experiencing a hard drive failure is not replace the physical disk itself but making sure that all of your important documents....

Tim Smith, Computeractive, Monday 28 June 2010 at 00:00:00

Create and print guitar music and tablature

Tux-Guitar is a complete composition tool for guitarists that can be used to create tablature from ordinary notation. As well as recording and printing music, Tux-Guitar can be used as...