Category Archives: General Apps
5 Essential Tips To Enhance Your PC’s Gaming Performance
Have you ever experienced playing a game when it feels like everything is in a stop-motion video? Or the graphics are just terrible and the frame-rates are excruciatingly slow, even though your PC is fairly new and meets most of today’s standard gaming requirements. It might be that your system is not set-up or optimized to give you the best possible performance for gaming. Here are five must-know tips to help improve your PC gaming [...]
Make Any Program “Always On Top”
Programs like Windows Media Player and Task Manager include an option to always display them on top of an active window. This means you can work inside an active window or program but also see the inactive “Always on top” program. I was recently in need of such a tool when I wanted to display an Excel spreadsheet atop my full-screen virtual operating system. In my search, I came across a free tool called Keep [...]
Quick Q & A: 1
In this new segment, I’ll offer quick answers to questions I’ve received from comments, emails, or search queries. Can I install AVG Free 2011 over 9.0? You do not need to uninstall AVG 9.0 before beginning to install AVG 2011. During the installation, version 9.0 will be removed automatically before version 2011′s files are in place. You may be requested to reboot your computer during 9.0′s uninstall process. Any quality program will overwrite the predecessor. [...]
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PrimoPDF
PrimoPDF is a free application used to create Portable Document Format (extension .pdf) files. It creates a print driver on your computer so you can create a document in Word, Visio, Photoshop, etc. and “print” the document as a .pdf file. It’s very helpful if you find it necessary to deliver .pdf files to a colleague or customer. Of course, the .pdf files won’t have dynamic properties that are possible with a .pdf editor like [...]