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iTunes 7.4 obsolete after 48 hours;

September 8, 2007, 13:27(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

iTunes 7.4 obsolete after 48 hours; 7.4.1 breaks homebrew ringtones

There are apps that age gracefully, staying functional and relevant for months or years with no changes at all…and then there’s iTunes.

download iTunes 7.4.1

Tagged With: Computer News, Software

Cool Tool Of The Week – SIW

September 6, 2007, 14:36(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

This is one of my all-time favorite tools. Anyone who works on or with computers will at some point or another find this tool indispensable.
System Information for Windows – “Everything you want to know about your PC”.
[Read more…] about Cool Tool Of The Week – SIW

Tagged With: Computer News, Cool Tools, Freeware, Windows Vista, Windows XP

TechNet Magazine Spotlight on PageDefrag

September 5, 2007, 14:55(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

PageDefrag can defragment the Windows page file, Registry hives, event logs, and the hibernation file (the area on disk where memory is saved when a notebook jumps into hibernation mode). The program optimizes these files during the PC’s bootup sequence before they’re in use.

More at Technet

Tagged With: Computer News, Cool Tools, Freeware, Windows Vista, Windows XP

ProcessExplorer v11.0 Released

September 5, 2007, 14:52(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

We’re excited to announce the release of Process Explorer v11, which introduces major startup and UI performance improvements, new columns and process details for Vista I/O priorities, memory priorities, and Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) DLL and executable attributes, an enhanced security properties page that shows raw SID values, fully asynchronous thread symbol resolution, integration with UAC, and more!

Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.

Tagged With: Computer News, Freeware, Windows Vista, Windows XP

Ad-Aware Now Vista Compatible

August 29, 2007, 19:10(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Ad-Aware is an excellent Anti-Spyware product. There is a free version and a “pay-for” version.
Announcement
Download

Tagged With: Computer News, Freeware, Security, Software, Windows Vista

Cool Tool Of The Week

August 29, 2007, 13:27(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

I’ll be trying to introduce you to a different program every week. This week:

WinToolsXP & WinToolsVista… [Read more…] about Cool Tool Of The Week

Tagged With: Computer News, Cool Tools, Freeware, Windows Vista, Windows XP

Sneak Peak: Firefox 3

August 23, 2007, 14:47(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

PC Mechanic takes a gander at Firefox 3 which is scheduled to be released about October 30th.

Tagged With: Computer News, Linux, Software

ReNamer 5.00 Released

August 21, 2007, 18:14(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

ReNamer is a very powerful and flexible file renaming tool, which offers all the standard renaming procedures, including prefixes, suffixes, replacements, case changes, as well as removing contents of brackets, adding number sequences, changing file extensions, etc.

Screenshots , Download , Home

Tagged With: Computer News, Freeware

AutoRuns v8.73

August 21, 2007, 12:21(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

This version fixes a bug that omitted nameless Browser Helper Objects from display.

Tagged With: Computer News, Freeware

Pidgin 2.1.1 has landed.

August 21, 2007, 12:17(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

FREE instant messenger program. Works with most of the biggies. Download & Info.

Tagged With: Computer News, Freeware

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