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The system tray on your Windows OS  is that place located on the bottom-right side of your taskbar (next to the Windows clock) which shows you important and useful icons which stand for programs running on your computer. Now, in Windows 7  we have something called Notification Area which basically does the same things as the old system tray. There are tons of ways to customize your Notification Area. Read these articles on how to hide icons from the system tray and how to clean out Windows 7 Notification Area. However, in this article, I have decided to go a little further. In fact, I will explain to you how to turn off and remove for good the Notification Area to gain some more space on the taskbar! Continue reading »

Last year, I covered something very similar to the topic of this post when I wrote about how to download tons of free portable applications for your USB drive. However, at the time I merely wrote down a list of links where you actually could download each application. Today, I am going to take the whole matter to the very next level! In fact, just image to download, with a couple of clicks, a customized package containing…lots of USB portable applications! And best of all…it’s for free! Continue reading »

I have already written about this in the past. If you want to know more, read these interesting articles on how to extract text from images and, just in case you changed your mind after getting the text, how to convert text to images! Of course, there are a lot of web apps and free software which manage to pull out text from photos. That’s why I am writing this new article! A couple of days ago I found an interesting web tool which will let you get and extract text from pictures and… more! Continue reading »

One of the most missed features in Adobe Reader is, without any doubt, the ability to rotate PDF files to adapt them to the screen of your computer. In fact, you might wish to rotate a PDF files because, for example, it is better readable or because it contains a lot of pictures and photos which are displayed in a more efficient way if you rotate the PDF of 180 degrees etc. Like I told before, there is not way to do it with Adobe Reader. Luckily for you, there is a nice website which, in a matter of a couple of seconds, will rotate any PDF file, for free! Continue reading »

Sometimes, above all if you work in a company which gives you laptops and desktop PCs to work with,  the USB ports of your computer may be disabled for security reasons. In fact, this method is used  (among with other security limitations) to avoid espionage or more simply, to reduce the risk of infecting computers using unknown files installed by the user himself. Of course, this restriction also limits the user who in this way won’t be able to use any external devices or USB drives. This easy tutorial will explain you how to enable USB port in a cuople of steps.  Continue reading »

If you work with Microsoft Office you know pretty well that its tools (Word, PowerPoint, Excel…) have some weak-points. In fact, sometimes they miss some useful options which could make your life easier when it comes to creating  documents. But, are you sure that that option is missing or it is you who don’t manage to find it? For example, how many times have you wished to attach a file to your Word and Excel documents? Well, believe it or not, but such feature does exist in Office. The only issue is that it is  “buried” among hundreds of options available! Continue reading »

This is a great news for all of you guys who like downloading tons of YouTube videos from your YouTube account. In fact, YouTube, well-aware that an increasing number of its users like playing around with YouTube videos, has recently released an official, online  YouTube video editor which allows you edit your videos on the fly and online (without buying and installing any extra software!). Continue reading »

One of the most annoying things about portable applications is their splash screen which greets you every time you open one of them! If you can not stand  all this, I have got a nice hack which will let you turn off and get rid of the hated splash screen in a matter for seconds, for good! Continue reading »