Tech Tips, Tricks and News

Faststone: Capture

2012-02-04T13:44:00.000+00:00

A powerful, lightweight, yet full-featured screen capture tool that allows you to easily capture and annotate anything on the screen including windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular/freehand regions and even scrolling windows/web pages. It also allows you to record screen activities and sound into video files.

You can screencap a whole page (or anything as long as it can scroll).Once downloaded, you can use the options displayedbelow to capture and edit screencaps and pictures.

I use this programme a lot when viewing alot of message boards and want to save what was writen but as a picture. It's great and simple to use!
Download:
http://www.faststonesoft.net/DN/FSCaptureSetup70.exe
Alternative:
http://www.faststone.org/FSCapturerDownload.htm
Read more:
http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm

2011-08-26T17:46:00.002+01:00

http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/ Is a website dedicated to those gaming enthusiasts out there. Its not just computer hardware, they sell drinks and sweets found in America, but since the website is based in Scotland, you can enjoy American food! http://www.trustpilot.co.uk's users gave the site an altogether "Excellent 9.8/10". I have yet to order from this site, so I cannot say how good it is, but I can say that other people have had excellent service/quality. If your living in the UK, i recommend this site, for your computer hardware, and sweets&drink needs.

Organise and optimize your HDD

2011-08-16T18:02:00.000+01:00

For those who don't have or know what a defragmeter is, it is a software that organises the files on your Hard drive (HDD) so that they are not fragmented, this increases boot speeds, frees up more hard drive space, and many other benefits. Well you will be happy to know that a free programme called "Auslogics Disk Defrag" offers all of the benefits of defragmentation. I recommend this programme to anyone and I guarantee it will free up some hard drive space (on its first use).
Download:
http://download.cnet.com/Auslogics-Disk-Defrag/3000-2094_4-10567503.html?part=dl-6267754&subj=dl&tag=button
Alternative:
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/

Keep those nasty viruses far...far away!

2011-08-15T01:48:00.001+01:00

Malwarebytes is a perfect FREE programme that will get rid of those nasty viruses and adware. Once downloaded and installed, you can quick scan your pc and I'm sure that at least a few results will show. I used to have nortan anti virus, that slowed my pc down so i replaced that with avast (great product!) but i know what websites are safe and not. I use the professional version of Malwarebytes because it has 24/7 live protection including website blocker and ip blocker.

I strongly advise anyone to at least try this programme. It is used by profesionals and they would all advise you to.
Download now:
http://goo.gl/mpS51
Alternative:
http://www.malwarebytes.org/

Keep your PC clean!

2011-08-14T17:34:00.001+01:00

"CCleaner is the number-one tool for cleaning your Windows PC. It protects your privacy online and makes your computer faster and more secure. Easy to use and a small, fast download."

This programme is nearly all you need to keep your PC clean FOR FREE! That's right, this product offers the tools necessary to clean cookies, temp files, and repair registry errors. Many people use this world wide, and I strongly recommend getting it if you don't already have it.

Download here:
http://goo.gl/H6k5X
Alternative:
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner