WeTransfer.com is a free, quick, easy, registration-free way to transfer big files to up to 20 other people. Here is how to use the service: Visit wetransfer.com Upload your files by clicking the (+) and selecting them. Enter the recipient(s) email address(es) Enter your email address. Type a quick message Then click ‘Transfer’ Some more [...]
Last month’s poll asked our readers…’Which TWO Microsoft Office Applications do you use the most?’ The diagram to the right (click to enlarge) shows how our readers voted. As you can see Microsoft Office Word, Excel and Outlook were the three applications to receive the most votes, which to us isn’t surprising as the applications [...]
Picnik is a brilliant free online photo editing tool and ideal for all users (from novices to pros). The website has a wide variety of features which can help you make ‘average’ photos look ‘amazing’. Free features include rotate, crop, flip, re-size, exposure options (including exposure, contrast, highlight, shadow and brightness adjustments), colour options (including [...]
Windows Live Writer is a free desktop application for publishing to blogs and will work with almost any blog provider in the world including Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, WordPress, TypePad and more! It’s a very simple piece of software which enables you to link your blogs to one central point for posting, rather than logging [...]
Our most recent poll was ‘Do you use iPlayer?’ 67% voted ‘Yes’, 33% ‘No’ and thankfully there were no votes for ‘What is it?’ However, for those of you who don’t know what BBC iPlayer is read our Brandstar post about BBC iPlayer from back when it was introduced! See ‘BBC iPlayer – catch up [...]
Our most recent poll was ‘Will you upgrade to Windows 7 straight away?’ 50% of voters said yes they would compared to the 29% saying no and the 21% saying maybe. To those who said no or maybe we want to urge you to upgrade to Windows 7. Here at PCToolbox and Brandstar we’re huge [...]
We recently wrote a post about performing a ‘Disk Cleanup’ on XP and we thought it would be a good idea to do one for Vista too! Disk Cleanup is a computer maintenance application included in Microsoft Windows operating systems. It’s designed to free up disk space on your computers hard drive. Therefore, it’s worth [...]
Disk Cleanup is a computer maintenance application included in Microsoft Windows operating systems. It’s designed to free up disk space on your computers hard drive. Therefore, it’s worth performing a cleanup every so often. The feature searches and reviews your hard drive for files which are no longer necessary. It will then, after you’ve made [...]
Last week we wrote a tutorial for the new Image Resizer for Windows 7 and Vista…and now it’s time to review it! The software has been developed by CodePlex and is free to download! As a whole we’re very impressed with the program and think it’s got a lot of potential. The software itself is [...]
Just over 1 1/2 years ago we wrote a post titled ‘Quick Tip – Resize Multiple Images Quickly‘. One of the programs we mentioned in the blog only worked for machines running XP. However, a company called CodePlex have adapted the software so it can be used for Windows 7 and Vista machines! Here is [...]
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