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Got my new rig in the last day of Jan 2007, together with a copy of OEM Windows Vista Home Premium edition. As promised, I’m writing a review of the OS.
While this review is obviously not as complete or professional as other articles that you could find elsewhere, it gives you my very own and [...]

The general availability (GA) of Windows Vista is just around the corner, reviews/articles/rumors/screenshots have been posted in a lot of tech-oriented sites, developers are getting themselves ready, and some Microsoft fanboys just can’t wait for this first major OS release since the good-ol Windows XP.
However, Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, doesn’t look particularly impressed [...]

The only way to ensure that deleted files, as well as files that you encrypt with EFS, are safe from recovery is to use a secure delete application. There are numerous softwares to securely delete sensitive files off your hard drive. In this tutorial we will be using SDelete (by previously sysinternal) which can be [...]

Microsoft has released a new version of the Remote Desktop Client for it’s Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows Server Code Name “Longhorn” line-up of OS to enable computers running Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP 1 to connect remotely via terminal service to administer remote computers.

Feeling sinful while using non-legal copy of software? Reluctant to pay for expensive license fee? While copyright is meant to be respected, not everyone (especially students) can afford buying expensive software.
But don’t worry, there’s always freeware alternative for you (err…at least for non-commercial use). I’m going to list out several categories here, and in each [...]

We all have our must-have softwares and we at SphereLabs love our free softwares. One thing about free softwares on the net is the endless supply of updated versions. Now no one likes to check sites, download, launch and click through the installation wizard applications-after-application, version-after-versions. No one. Thus the birth of an innovative [...]

This guide is based on my previously written guide here, but I’ve updated it slightly since most people are using Windows Live Messenger now, instead of the good-ol-MSN-Messenger. I understand that they are plenty of tools for you to backup your emoticons. However, this is a manual but rather safe way of doing it (since [...]

AudioShell, a freeware plug-in that lets you view and edit music file tags within Windows Explorer itself by adding a AudioShell tag editor tab to the properties section of the files. It supports just about every kind of audio file formats available [ie. mp3, WMA, mp4, ogg,]. It’s from the same company that made Tag&Rename [...]

For something that comes free and built-in into some Operating Systems [read: *nix), there are a couple of 3rd party tools (including Microsoft's own) to enable the replication of the Virtual Desktop concept on Windows. If you're not familiar with virtual desktops, they allow you to split up your applications/programs to several different (virtual) desktops, thus avoiding clutter [...]

Internet Explorer (IE) has been largely synonymous to browsing the internet ever since Microsoft decided to bundle it with Windows 95 operating system. The much heralded browser wars between Microsoft and Netscape accelerated progressive innovation of new features to the web browser which ended with the demise of Netscape’s Navigator browser. Unfortunately, ever since Microsoft [...]