The Man from Lox is a SFW military training video on the dangers of Liquid Oxygen. Pretty funny and pretty geeky.

I thought I’d put together a few ways of testing your systems security setup. These are not virus or malware scanners but various ways of testing your current security software.

Game Booster is a freeware application designed to squeeze a few extra fps (frames per second) out of your latest resource hungry game by stopping unnecessary services and processes.

A list of Antivirus program uninstallers or removers that I have collected from various places.

The hosts file is is essentially a list of sites that you wish to block when surfing the internet. Hostsman is a freeware program that manages the hosts file for you.

A roundup of web filtering and child monitoring freeware.

I have been working alternate days and evening / nights for a few months now and have become a little concerned about possible health problems. Some of the symptoms of working nights are fairly obvious such as sleep deprivation and lack of energy etc but there are some other rather scarier complications such as these: Breast [...]

I often get asked which security products I would recommend. So… today I am blogging about my current favourite freeware firewall (easy for you to say) and antivirus products and why I have chosen them. This combination I believe is as good or better than any you can pay for. Antivirus There are 3 major antivirus products [...]

After trying to backup 20gb of files onto 4 or 5 dvd’s recently I thought there must be an easier way to automatically sort the files into 4.7gb groups.  There are some solutions out there luckily and here are the best. SizeMove Sizemove is best described by their own literature: SizeMove.exe is a command line utility, with a GUI [...]

If you suffer from Hard Drive full messages or simply wonder where all your hard drive space is going to then the following hard drive disk space freeware could be invaluable. This freeware will let you visualize disk space on a hard drive or in a folder to see which files are taking up space. [...]

Photo by esti. Web Cookies Many people have heard about the privacy issues concerning websites tracking you online through the use of ordinary cookies. These are small text files that when used legitimately within your browser can help a website identify you so you don’t have to log in every time. Unfortunately advertisers and marketers also gather [...]

I’ve been really busy lately so here’s a rather lazy roundup of some cool links: Some brilliant fun with industrial robots from Geeks are sexy. Get Facebook on your desktop. Print yourself a blank piece of paper – awesome and free. Openwith.org – free software to open any extension. Think your firewall or security setup works – test it with [...]

Information comes at us in many forms and I have been looking at ways to try and manage it. By manage I mean the sorting and storing of data like bookmarks or random bits of text or other pieces of info. To help with this I’ll be looking at 3 browser based apps Stumbleupon, ReadItlater [...]