Articles for June 2014

In Windows 8 and 8.1, the Shutdown options consist of Sign out, Sleep, Shut down, and Restart, but don't include a Hibernate option by default. In this tutorial we'll show you how to re-enable the Hibernate option again. ... Read more

StackSocial.com, a fast-growing app marketplace, is now running an interesting promotion in which it is practically giving away ten excellent apps for a limited time in their Summer Blockbuster Mac Bundle 'name your own price' deal. ... Read more

Microsoft is giving MacBook Air owners the chance to get a discount of up to $650 on a Surface Pro 3 in exchange for trading in a MacBook Air. ... Read more

Also called elevated mode, an elevated command prompt is a command line mode introduced in Windows starting with Vista. It's available in Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10 as well. What it does is allows an user to execute commands with admin privileges. ... Read more

Within the past couple weeks, we have been trying out different Twitter clients that may extend an individual user's possibilities of Twitter management; and have come down to comparing the two most obvious options – TweetDeck and Hootsuite. ... Read more

System protection is a Windows feature that creates and saves as restore points information about your PC's system files, software, drivers, and registry settings. It does this for all the drives that have system protection activated. ... Read more

If you came across the message "You cannot shrink a volume beyond the point where any unmovable files are located" when trying to shrink a partition on your disk using the Windows Disk Management tool, there's an easy fix to it. ... Read more

In this post we'll try to keep up with the latest storage plans changes from Microsoft, Google, and Dropbox, and always highlight in green the best plans available. ... Read more

In this tutorial we'll show you how to move both Pagefile.sys and Swapfile.sys to another drive. You will need administrator privileges to performs this action so have your admin credentials ready. ... Read more

In Windows Vista, 7 and 8 there is a more advanced way to create and manage shortcuts using a command line tool known as MKLink. With MKLink you can type a single line of code into the Command Prompt and create various kinds of shortcuts. ... Read more

Just like Google did for Drive a while back, Microsoft announced that they are lowering their fees for OneDrive considerably starting next month. The new offer now comes with 15 GB free storage (up from 7), matching Google Drive's free storage plan. ... Read more

We covered how to show hidden files in Explorer, but how do you remove the hidden attribute of a file when that attribute is grayed out? In this tutorial, we'll show you how to change the hidden attribute using the command prompt command ATTRIB. ... Read more

If you came across the message "You cannot shrink a volume beyond the point where any unmovable files are located" when trying to shrink a partition on your disk, there's an easy fix allowing you to bypass this restriction. ... Read more

Hootsuite is a lot more than just a Twitter client. It allows you to manage all your social networking accounts, as well as multiple accounts on the same social network, in one dashboard. ... Read more

TweetDeck is a good web app that allows you to manage your Twitter account, or multiple accounts, in a more convenient UI than that of the regular Twitter web UI. Its columns layout, scheduled tweets, and a single-page UI make it worth trying. ... Read more