Today I will show you how to make a bootable USB pen drive with your choice of Linux installation image on it. This will work with both standard install images as well as with the live versions. Making a bootable pen drive has many advantages over a CD or DVD such as increased reliability, vastly […]
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There are several ways you can go about downloading YouTube videos. You can use dedicated software, download websites and browser extensions/plugins. I find that the Firefox extension “Download YouTube Videos as MP4 and FLV” is the easiest. It gives you the most useful options without having to install any suspect software on your computer. Using
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Defragging your computer can give it a performance boost by organizing the data on its hard drive in a more efficient way. It can also increases the lifespan of your hard drive by reducing the amount of physical movements the drive has to perform. What Does Defragging Do? When your computer writes data to its
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Using a VPN service like NordVPN is a great way to protect your online privacy. With legislation like SOPA and PIPA (sign the e-petition here) all over the news, it’s no surprise that people are looking at ways to protect themselves from prying eyes whilst surfing the internet. So why would you want to use
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So you’ve got a slow laptop and it’s driving you mad! It’s taking an age to boot up into Windows, and once you’re eventually logged in, the whole system seems sluggish. The start button is slow to respond, programs take an age to load and you get random system hangs. Or, even worse, your laptop
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CCleaner is ideal for deleting unwanted files from you computer such as temporary internet files and cookies, as well as unused old system files. CCleaner also has an built in registry cleaner that can fix Windows errors and optimize your computer. All Microsoft Windows computers rely on a system registry to function and as you
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Spybot Search & Destroy is one of the best free spyware removal tools available at the moment, but the program doesn’t have the most obvious user interface so I am going to walk you through the steps needed to protect your PC. The thing I most like about the program is the “immunise” function. This
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Assuming you have already downloaded and install Windows Live Mail (Download load it here if you need it), and you have the login details of you IMAP email account, then let’s get stated. First of all, run the Windows Live Mail program and at the top of the program, click on the “Accounts” tab and
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Is your Windows PC running slow? Is Windows taking ages to boot up or close down? Try some of these easy to do tweaks that anyone can accomplish to speed up your PC today! There are a number of ways you can speed up Windows 7. Upgrading your hardware such as installing more ram or
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One of the easiest and most performance enhancing upgrades you can make to your PC is adding more ram. To do this, you will need to open your computers case and either add additional memory modules to what your system already has, or replace the original ones with larger new memory modules. Always try to
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