Sometimes you need to get into a computer without knowing the password. Perhaps you've forgotten yours, or perhaps you're up to no good. Either way, it's actually pretty easy to do, provided your victim hasn't taken the necessary precautions. Click one of the links below to find out how to do it on either a Windows PC or a Mac, and how to prevent others from doing the same to you. More »
We have previously written about how to take ownership of files and folders in Windows 7 , but there may be times when you need to take ownership of or assign full permission for certain registry keys. This article shows you how to do this.
NOTE: Before making changes to the registry, be sure you back up the registry . We also recommend creating a restore point you can use to restore your s...
Ten years after it first arrived and a year after Microsoft stopped selling it, Windows XP survives.
It is an incredibly resilient piece of programming that has millions of fans around the world. But we can’t hold on forever. Microsoft promises to end support for the aging code in 2014. Though those few remaining years may not be enough time for all the people I know who are still running XP ...
Ten years ago today Microsoft released Windows XP. And around the world, millions of people are still running the aging operating system on desktop, laptop, and tablet computers even though Microsoft stopped selling Windows XP directly to consumers a few years ago. You could probably make a case that Windows XP changed the way we think about operating systems. Or... Read more »
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Hacking the registry allows you to tweak many things in Windows, such as the adding and removing items from the context menu, enabling and disabling Windows features, customizing the Control Panel, and many other items.
We have documented a large collection of registry hacks and here is a list of 20 of the best hacks.
NOTE: If you are not comfortable making changes to the registry, you should...
In October, Windows 7 usage has for the first time surpassed Windows XP usage globally according to statistics from StatCounter . In other words, Windows 7 just became the most widely used desktop OS in the world.
This has been a long time coming. Windows XP has been at the top for eons (it launched 10 years ago, and once established, didn’t let go). Windows Vista never managed to threaten XP, ...
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Bizonyára sokaknak megfordult már a fejében, hogy milyen jó lenne asztali számítógépen vagy notebookon Android alkalmazásokat futtatni. Ez most megvalósulni látszik, hiszen a mai napon a Bluestacks végre bemutatta App Player alkalmazásának alpha verzióját. A jelenleg még teszt fázisban lévő program lehetőséget nyújt arra, hogy androidos alkalmazásokat Windows-os környezetben használjuk, amely je...
BlueStacks today released the first alpha version of its fancy new way of running Android apps on your Windows PC, and if their super-awesome video is anything to go by, it's going to be a winner.
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If you've been dreaming of a world where Android apps are free to roam across your Windows desktop, you're in luck, because BlueStacks has just turned your reverie into reality. Today, the startup unveiled an alpha version of its App Player -- software that allows users to run a host of Android apps on Windows PCs, tablets or desktops, without requiring them to make modifications to their origin...
Bluestacks has launched an alpha test version of its App Player software, which integrates Android support right into Windows. You can have Android apps on your desktop right now, for free. Any takers? Anyone at all? More »
Writing code for music may still seem a remote notion to the vast majority of even geekier digital musicians, but as exemplified by the language Overtone, it looks very different than coding once did. Whereas sound code was once a type-and-render affair, new coding environments focus on live coding. They use elegant, lightweight modern languages that take up less space. And they can be surprisingl...
Montreal-based Damian Taylor, music director and engineer for Björk, is the subject of an epic interview on cycling74.com, spanning music, life in Montreal, working in Björk and what makes her special, and what patching in Max/MSP can mean compositionally and creatively.
Damian has some especially nice reflections on what having an open-ended music environment can mean.
It’s a great and ...