Category Archives: Windows Tips

Download Tricks by SoftPedia

SoftPedia was once a great place to go for bug-free freeware. The other day I (TC) was working on someone’s computer wearing my Cloudeight Direct hat, when I determined that the customer could benefit from a freeware program. I wasn’t sure of the developer’s Web site URL so I google the name of the program and ended up… Read More »

Run Android apps on your Windows computer

If you don’t have a tablet and you don’t have a smartphone, you probably think you’re left out when it comes to some of those cool apps your Android friends are playing with. And if you have Windows 8, you’ve probably noticed the Windows App Store is rather barren compared to Apple’s App Store and Google Play. The… Read More »

Google poised to ban IncrediMail again?

About 2/3 (67%) of IncrediMail’s income comes from Google searches and advertisements. So Google is IncrediMail’s lifeblood. But now it seems there are rumblings that Google may soon terminate its contract with Google, maybe as soon as January 31, 2013. (Google has banned IncrediMail before —  for six months in 2010). The speculation is that Google, whose policy… Read More »

Gmail. Period.

    Gmail.Period. Aliases can be good or bad. The aliases we’re talking about today are good ones.  We’re going to show you how to use Gmail aliases to track how your email address is being used – i.e., when you sign up for something on the Web – and how it’s being misused — i.e. when you… Read More »

Taking a bite out of bits and bytes

A bit, short for binary digit, is the smallest unit of measurement used for information storage in computers. A bit is represented by a 1 or a 0 with a value of true or false, sometimes expressed as on or off. Eight bits form a single byte of information, also known as an octet. Thus, the difference between… Read More »