Here’s another freebie from Bill, via Propellerhead, this time it’s a little add on called Time Zone, and it does exactly what it says, displaying the time in a choice of world wide locations. The defaults are London, Los…

Remember those little flipbooks you used to get in comics (Propellerhead is showing his age now), or maybe you’ve made your own by drawing ‘stickmen’ on the corners of an exercise book?  Now you can make your own with…

As you (hopefully) know browsing the Internet is not a private activity and it leaves a trail half a mile wide that almost anyone with a mind to can easily track back to your PC. Everything from Windows to…

Bored with your backdrop? Weary of your wallpaper? There’s no need to be, according to Propellerhead, Uncle Bill has kindly developed a small free utility, part of the PowerToys suite, called Wallpaper Changer. This simple little program automatically switches…

If you use the Firefox browser (and if not why not?) then you’ll know all about the useful Password Manager facility, which makes logging onto protected websites a doddle, but as Propellerhead  points out, it is not very secure….

How many times have you viewed a digital photograph on your PC and wondered where on earth it was taken? In the not too distant future, digital cameras with built-in GPS facilities will record latitude and longitude in the…

If you’ve had anything to do with Blogs or Blogging then you’ll know there’s a multitude of sites and software applications, of varying sophistication, designed to help you organise your words and pictures and published them on the web,…

The next time you go flying you might want to think twice about taking your laptop with you, following the events of the past few weeks. If a terrorist alert licks off while you are waiting to check in…

Here’s a weird little tip that has been doing the rounds for a while — it first came to Propellerhead’s attention in the late 1980’s — and over the years quite a few people claim to have temporarily revived…

The web has been abuzz with an apparent leak of Canadian prices for Windows Vista on a Microsoft website, that has subsequently been withdrawn. However, a price list has been on Amazon’s pre-order pages for at least the past…