Category Archives: Tech Tips

Concept of Defragmenting: Does it Work

Often when you have been using your home computer for a while you may look into ways to really improve and increase the performance of your PC. One of the most popular options is the defragging your Hard Disks. So, let’s take a more in depth look at the defragmentation process and whether or not it works.

When you use your home computer for work, such as making or saving new files, the files are being continuously created as well as erased from the hard disk. When the disk is empty, Windows will try to store the new files near or next to the location of the previous file. This is done in order to increase the speed of processing the files(s) when they are needed. read more

Recycling Used PCs: How Electrical Goods Can Be Recycled and Reused

Globally, 500,000 PCs are disposed of every single day, while nearly 500,000,000 cell phones get dumped annually, according to Forum for the Future. This staggering figure does not even consider the number of old machines collecting dust in crawl spaces all across the country. Even worse, the National Safety Council estimates that the number of PCs considered obsolete in any given year will far surpass the number of new devices made available to consumers. Lenovo has information about selling and buying used laptops; if you don’t want to sell your old kit, rather than tossing those used laptops and desktop computers into the garbage, you may want to consider some of the risks associated with e-waste and think about some of the other options available today. read more

Resize Many Images All At Once

So, there may be times when you are required to crop pictures or resize images easily on a daily basis, and it is beneficial to know that resizing can be done with any type of software, such as the one at Luxa, for example. Even the Microsoft Picture editor can do it with ease, and you could even try your hand with the old Paint if you just need to re-size a single image. However, it can get confusing if you have to resize many images rather than just the one; as that is straightforward. That being said, if you have access to it, you could use a heavy-duty image editing software like such as Photoshop to solve the problem. However, not everyone has the need for the full, and expensive, Photoshop software package. So what to do if you’re not willing to make the leap for an expensive piece of software like Photoshop? read more

How to Browse the Web Anonymously

Browsing the internet anonymously is very important. No one wants their personal information to be available for everyone to see.  Nor do you want anyone seeing your browsing history. You can achieve private browsing with the help of a VPN.  VPN protects your data and gives you complete freedom to surf your favorite websites without harming your identity.

Why is it important to remain anonymous?

Your privacy is your prized possession. If your identification is ever revealed, your identification is put at risk.  There are many hackers and snoopers among us that don’t stand out as such, but they will attempt to intercept your private information if you don’t use any security tool.  You, just like anyone else, could be a victim of identity theft.  Private browsing with the help of a VPN security tool protects your information from these hackers and snoopers. read more

How to Find Duplicate Images on your PC

In this post we will discuss a method by which you could find all the duplicate images on your PC.  By finding duplicate images, if gives you the option to delete them, as they are unnecessarily eating up your hard drive space. First, let’s see why you might have those duplicate images.

  • Transferring your files from your your Mobile or a Camera twice or rather copying some files from one drive to another.
  • Editing a picture minutely like cropping and rotating. The software you used made another copy of the image instead of making changes to the original one.

These are two main reasons that may have created duplicate images on your hard drive. If you do not pay attention, these images could be created over time without you even noticing. So now let’s see how can find and delete these images. read more