We've covered lists from things like image extensions for Chrome to services that can convert text to speech. Today we’ll look at another list of websites which let you convert images online into various formats for free. Many of these are very similar, but they all have unique reasons to use them. We've written about the pros and cons of ...

Drivers are a way for software to recognize and communicate with hardware. Without proper drivers, many hardware pieces will not know how to operate with their software counterpart. Windows can oftentimes download general drivers but these aren’t want most of us are looking for when it comes to video cards, for example, that require advanced features. We’ve already covered software like SlimDrivers for auto-updates or

No one enjoys the time-consuming process of installing lots of applications after a fresh OS install. On the Windows platform, you can use Ninite to automate the process and save time. But what about Mac users? I’m a huge fan of automating tasks as much as possible. And now Mac users can use a web service called Get Mac Apps to automate the installation of common apps. Get Mac Apps will let you choose from a list of popular applications and will install them for you with ...

Every day, new software debuts, and most of it has one singular yet very important aim - to make our lives easier. And this is especially true with USB Extension, a piece of software designed to help you interact with all of your removable devices on a much easier level. From USB drives to everything else, CD-ROMs, flash cards and network drives, USB Extension creates desktop shortcuts for every external device so you don't have to waste time digging ...

Windows Explorer is the main method of navigation around applications and folders. We’ve looked at customizing the appearance of folders and even running system commands right from an Explorer window. A whole new way to view and maneuver around Explorer is with Unreal Commander. There ...

Adobe Reader is nearly universal for reading PDF files. While this is great for most people, editing them always seems to be a hassle. Finding a good, solid program to work with shouldn’t be difficult or time consuming. We’ve shown you some differences between Microsoft Office and LibreOffice, as well as

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is great for companies with many computers. These computers oftentimes need Windows updates but will always have to reach out to the Internet to get them. Microsoft helped relieve this bandwidth tension by allowing a server to store all the updates, requiring a system admin to simply point all the workstations to the local server for updates and not Microsoft’s server. Portable Update’s function is similar to WSUS. Run ...

Simplicity in design oftentimes incorrectly assumes simplicity in functionality. A clear example of busting this is when you use LISTSP. LISTSP is an advanced Task Manager with a simple design yet many options. View running processes, services, drivers, and network activity. Close out any connection or process and manage all the services from one window. There are plenty of options in LISTSP so we’ll go over the main four tabs ...

Windows already includes a scheduled task feature but no options come inherently to make it easy for some operations. These include basic features like moving, deleting and copying files. Currently, a batch file with proper commands would have to be made and then executed as a program in Task Scheduler. This is unnecessary and most don’t want to go to the trouble. Download MoveBOT to do these same operations very ...

To save on download speeds or physical media space, websites will  oftentimes offer zipped files for downloads. This is useful to both combine several objects in one folder and also to ensure the files and folders are compressed to save space. We covered using WinRAR for opening compressed zip, RAR, and other file types but today we’ll look at another useful program called