If you want to play video or music files in any format, download VLC Media Player.  It’s free and is a great alternative to Windows Media Player, iTunes and RealPlayer, to name but a few.  No more converting files or searching for programs to handle the format. Just play and enjoy.
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A number of people are having problems with mywebsearch, a toolbar that comes with applications such as Tattoodle, Smiley Central, Zwinky etc. In particular, users of facebook have come to us requesting help on removing this from their computer. 
mywebsearch has been reported as a source of malware/spyware/adware and can be difficult to remove .  That [...]

When you buy your new computer, everything is lovely, organised and neat on the nice new hard drive. But as you start using it, adding files, modifying files and removing files, things start to get less organised and this becomes apparent in your computer’s performance.  Windows has an inbuilt function called Disk Defragmentation. This Defrag [...]

Sounds exciting, doesn’t it?  With all the great software that is available now, it is so easy for you PC and laptop to get bogged down with it all, slowing you down in the process.  But all that is about to change!  With the new ‘Spoon’ plug-in, you can run popular programs directly from the web.  [...]

This little hint can save you oodles of time.  If you have a problem and you are searching for help in forums etc., include the word ‘solved’ in your search.  This will take you to forums where a similar query was answered satisfactorily and marked ‘solved’.  Otherwise, you will waste time, like I have done [...]

Yes, you read it right!  You can play a game of Old Snakey on Gmail. 
1. First, click on Settings (top right corner).
2. Select ‘Keyboard shortcuts on’.
3. Click on ‘Save Changes’.
Now you are ready to unlock a special version of the classic arcade game Snake.
1. Once again, click on Settings.
2. Select the Labs tab.
3. Scroll down the page [...]

Have you ever sent a message and then realised that you made a mistake?  Well, if you do this in Gmail, all is not lost, you still have a chance to stop it from being delivered:
1. Click on ‘Settings’ in the top right corner.
2. Go into Google Labs and enable the option ‘Undo Send’.
3. Click [...]

If you have just answered yes to this question, there is a simple solution.  All you have to do is turn off  ‘Conversation View’.  Gmail’s conversation view groups all replies to an email in one message, effectively ‘threading’ them together.  However, this drives some people crazy. If you are one of those irked by this feature, just follow [...]

Have you ever left work, suddenly panic stricken by the notion that you didn’t log out of your private gmail account?  What happens if the boss discovers it or worse still, a colleague has a nosey through your stuff?  Well worry no more!  It is possible to log out of gmail remotely, just follow the [...]

Although Gmail is relatively  new compared to Hotmail and Yahoo Mail, 10 years younger to be exact, in its few short years it has managed to become one of the most popular webmails of the day and has easily become the email of choice for many users.  And I have to admit, I’m amongst its fans. Yes, I [...]