Run Apps in Sandboxie to Keep Your System Clean and Secure

Installation is straight forward and easy following the installation wizard. After installing you may get a software compatibility screen to improve compatibility with certain apps. Now you’re ready to start using Sandboxie. it’s possible for you to also browse for the program or file you want to run in Sandboxie. Here we will take a look at how Sandboxie works. In this example, I opened Firefox in Sandboxie and started to download Dropbox....

October 21, 2009 · 1 min · 184 words · Brandon Hudson

Simple Tips: Windows 7 Volume Mixer Enables Quick Access to Sound Settings

Let’s take a quick look at one of those tweaks in the volume mixer. Not surprisingly, you might change your speaker parameters in here. If you open up the full mixer panel, you might also grab the System Sounds icon…

October 21, 2009 · 1 min · 40 words · Caitlyn Vasquez

Access Tab History from the Tab Bar in Firefox

Choose which menu items that you would like to have displayed In the Tab Context Menu Tab Area. You may also choose to have the Tab Bar not always show. In the Main Context Menu Tab Area grab the items that you would like to have displayed. you might also pull up the history for the tab from inside the surfing app window itself. ConclusionTab Session History can save you the trouble of having to use the History Menu in the Menu Toolbar....

October 20, 2009 · 1 min · 83 words · Stacy White

How to Lock Down Your Facebook Account

Here we take a look at locking down your profile, and how to avoid other annoyances. The first thing you want to do is change default parameters under the Privacy parameters. Take the time to go through each of the privacy sections and make the appropriate choices for your profile. Go through each section to adjust who can see your information. Of course showing it to everyone will be the least private....

October 20, 2009 · 1 min · 209 words · James Mckay

Stupid Geek Tricks: Windows 7 Easter Egg Shows the XP Alt-Tab Prompt

Here’s Windows 7, with the XP Alt-Tab! To trigger the old XP style one, you’ll need to do the following: And Voila! The ugly old XP-style one will show up. See, I told you it was completely and totally pointless!

October 20, 2009 · 1 min · 40 words · Joshua Kennedy

The 20 Best Windows Tweaks that Still Work in Windows 7

It’ll open up the command prompt, and start the defrag process. This how-to teaches you how to use a little utility that toggles the icons for you. All you oughta do is double-press an ISO to mount it. you could easily disable them in Windows 7,just like you could in Windows Vista. Sadly, those shares don’t work since Vista, at least by default. There’s a simple tweak that you could do that will re-enable them for business, however....

October 20, 2009 · 1 min · 152 words · Cassandra Rodriguez

Quickly Add Bookmarks to Delicious in Firefox

Looking for a quick and easy way to add bookmarks to your Delicious account? There is our wonderful new toolbar button waiting to be used! When you press the post 2 del.icio.us Toolbar Button, you will see the following window. It will display the URL and the webpage title. As soon as you have finished logging in your new bookmark will be posted. Checking our Delicious account shows our new bookmark sitting nicely at the top of the list....

October 19, 2009 · 1 min · 107 words · Whitney Kelly

Organize & Group Your Tabs in Firefox the Easy Way

Do you like the colored tab grouping feature in Internet Explorer and wish that Firefox had that too? If you decide to have a look at the options first, then this is what you will see. Choose and/or modify the prefs to best suit your personal preferences. What if you decide to change one of the colors though?

October 16, 2009 · 1 min · 58 words · Kevin Grant

Watch NFL Sunday Night Football On Your PC

Today we take a look at the neat setup NBC provides to watch the game on their website. One of the unique features is the several extra camera angles you could watch. You will be able to view these while they are at a commercial break as well. you’re able to pause, play and navigate through the action DVR style. There is a bandwidth meter in the left hand corner where you could determine the connection and video quality....

October 16, 2009 · 1 min · 129 words · Emily Williams

Add Classic Polaroid Look to Your Digital pictures

Remember the days before digital cameras when Polaroid pictures were the latest technology and coolest thing? Next choose the bang out of decorations to add to the Polaroid. Enter in the text you want to include on the Polaroid.

October 15, 2009 · 1 min · 39 words · Troy Diaz

Set Up Multi-Pane Viewing in Firefox

Do you have a wide monitor and a desire to make efficient use of it while browsing with Firefox? Choose how you would like to handle search results in the Combination Area. For our purposes we chose to use the Main Split web client Toolbar Button. This is the menu that is available when you tap on it. The same exact menu can be accessed through the optional Split Menu in the Menu Bar....

October 15, 2009 · 1 min · 133 words · Laura Robertson

VistaSwitcher is a Ridiculously Awesome Alt-Tab Replacement

This is what Windows should have been built with in the first place. Tweaking VistaSwitcherWant to tweak the preview screenshot size? The Exclusions tab lets you filter some applications from the preview, or exclude from the task list entirely. It’s an excellent additional feature to an already excellent app. Otherwise, you should at least give it a test drive.

October 15, 2009 · 1 min · 59 words · Alexis Werner

Get Enhanced IE Tab Integration in Firefox

Do you love the idea of having IE Tab integration in Firefox but wish that there were more features? This is what you will see if you hover your mouse over the icon… Note: There is a toolbar button that you may add if you desire using the Customize Toolbar Window. This is the Right Click Menu for the icon. This is the Right Click Menu for the Site Filter List… Make any desired modifications for the external internet tool used in the External utility Tab Area....

October 14, 2009 · 1 min · 109 words · Ryan Gonzales