Installing and Configuring NAS4Free on a Windows Network

Home NAS

Alright, so you’ve read my previous article introducing you to what a network attached storage (NAS) device is and you’ve decided to implement such a device on your home network. Awesome! So what’s next? Well, now comes the hard part. Sort of. You see, I’ve done the initial research for you and here in this [...]

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Bring Back the Start Menu Or We Riot!

Start Menu

Yes, I know. You hate Windows 8. The new Start Screen is an atrocity. The overall theme, colors and shapes that makes up Windows 8 apps is enough to make you regurgitate the breakfast you’ve had this morning. Well, I promise I’ll able to help you solve at least the first problem in this article! There [...]

Transferring Encrypted Files Between Party Members

GnuPG

Another day has come and you so you get another way to encrypt your files. Many think that you must be a true geek in order to love encryption. However, I don’t believe that to be true at all. While you must be a hardcore geek to want to learn how the actual encryption algorithm [...]

OpenPGP Support in Outlook 2010 and 2013

Outlook Logo

Yes folks, it is possible. Surely I’m not the first to document this but it just frustrated me when I realized how difficult it can be to incorporate the OpenPGP system into Microsoft Outlook. With that being said, I am happily using the Thunderbird email client with the Enigmail plugin which allows me to encrypt [...]

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A Bing Wallpaper a Day!

Bing Desktop

A good online buddy of mine and frequent visitor and commenter on AnotherWindowsBlog, Ankur, has written a blog post at TechEveryTime where I first took notice of Microsoft’s new Bing Desktop utility. This utility has been long in the making. Finally, users will have a chance to dynamically set their desktop wallpaper to match that [...]

Why You Should Learn to Sandbox Your Browser

Sandboxed

It’s no question that many of our work that’s being accomplished today is composed in our Internet browsers. There’s also no doubt that so much of our time spent on the Internet is through a browser of some sort. This is necessarily so because the browser can be thought of as the gateway between the [...]

Never Leave Home Without Hiren’s Boot CD!

Hirens BootCD

With all the freewares available out there to help with computer troubleshooting issues, it can be a hassle trying to find the right one for the job. As experienced workers will tell you, a job is a whole lot easier, no matter what it may be, if you just have access to the right tools. [...]