Computer Software

Spyware, like any other kind of software, has to first be installed on your computer. Sometimes spyware is installed by hackers who want to steal your information, other times these computer...

Of the many audio formats that have entered the market in recent years, no format is accepted by more digital audio players than MP3. The same cannot be said of other proprietary formats, such as...

Using Adobe Acrobat you can add text to your PDF files. These may be last minute notations that you wish to insert. Or you may find that an addition brings more to the overall look and feel of the...

Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 is a slideshow presentation tool that is part of the Microsoft Office Suite. If you have to give a PowerPoint presentation, you may want to add effects to your slides to...

M4P software is an Apple protected file (audio bought from the iTunes store). Without an intermediate conversion software, these files cannot be converted to MP3s in iTunes alone. There are many...

A QCP file is one of the standard file formats for cell phone ring tones. These proprietary formats allow cell phone companies to force users who wish to have unique ring tones on their phones to...

FLAC is a popular uncompressed file format that maintains the same audio quality as its source. Due to their file sizes, uncompressed formats (such as FLAC or WAV formats) are less popular than...

Yahoo! Music Jukebox makes it easy to create playlists and download songs to play on an MP3 player or Windows Media Player. With the Yahoo! Music Jukebox, songs can be burned to a CD in WAV, MP3...

Using Microsoft Word, you can create your own envelopes for your mailing needs. Whether these envelopes are designed for professional or personal purposes, you can create stationary-store styled...

A product that has spawned a million accessories and applications, the iPod, put a struggling Apple corporation on its silicon shoulders and brought it back to relevance. Downloading music from...

A digital video is a combination of moving pictures and sound saved in a format that is intended for saving to a computer or a disc like a DVD. Many different technologies are available for...

Microsoft Office provides many great features to make your job easier. Among these features is Mail Merge. To print envelopes using your Outlook Contacts, you can use this feature to automatically...

If you use Microsoft Outlook, you might have a lot of emails stored in your personal folders, and a computer failure or hard-drive crash could be devastating if you do not have a backup copy of...

Double-layer DVDs have great usefulness because almost any DVD player can read them and they can store double the data of a standard DVD on a single disk. While they are not as popular to purchase...

FLV files are Adobe Flash Player video files used commonly by websites to stream videos. If you want to extract just the audio from a video, converting the FLV to an Windows Media Audio (WMA) file...

Portable Document Format (PDF) and HyperText Markup Language (HTML) are both file formats for formatted documents. The two formats are mostly compatible. PDF can be converted to HTML.

WMV files are Windows Media Video files specifically for the Windows Media Player. You can't easily use these files with media players beyond Windows Media Player. They also do not stream well...

Facebook's Chat feature, implemented in April 2008, allows Facebook users to communicate with their contacts one-on-one through instant text messages while logged into the site. Facebook Chat is...

M4A files are a type of audio data encoded with the Apple Lossless Audio Codec. The M4A audio file extension is meant for use with programs such as iTunes or QuickTime. Depending on the audio...

Antivirus 360 is a sneaky program that uses false or misleading pop-up ads to convince unsuspecting computer users to download the program. Once the program is downloaded, false virus reports can...

An mp3 is one of the most common audio formats for both PC and Mac users; mp3 is also the default setting for iTunes. iPhone users must have iTunes in order to add or remove music, video, or...

AVI or Audio Video Interleave is one of the most common extension formats of downloaded files. Similar to DivX, AVI files are high quality and can be played on most computers. However, it is not...

Microsoft Outlook Express's address book allows you to keep just about every bit of information on a contact that you'd need. And sometimes you need to go back to your address book and update the...

One of the great features of a web browser is the ability to store previous history. This makes it easier to find previously visited websites and see everything you have searched. But sometimes...

PDF documents allow readers to exchange information on different platforms. There are occasions when the content in a PDF needs conversion to a MS Word compatible file. Fonts, images and...

Creative Sound Blaster makes computer sound cards for both desktop and laptop computers. The Sound Blaster Live card was first introduced in 1998 and opened the door for computer audio innovation...

AVG is a leading anti-virus program. At some point, however, whether it is to install a different anti-virus program or to make space on your computer, you may want to delete AVG from your...

Ventrilo is a robust piece of VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) software that allows for verbal and text-based communication between large groups of people online. However, due to the security...

Windows Media Video, or WMV, files are not native to the Macintosh operating system and must be converted into another format if they are to be used on a Mac. Converting a WMV file to the...

Google Sketchup is 3-D design software that you may have downloaded for free from the Internet. If you no longer need the software or if you need to free some space on your computer, you can...

Spy Shredder is yet another program in the long list of fake anti-spyware applications. Spyware in itself, the Spy Shredder is installed through trojan viruses. It generates pop-up messages with...

Adobe Acrobat, a set of computer programs produced by Adobe systems, can create, execute, view and operate the files in Adobe's PDF, which stands for Portable Document Format. Through Microsoft...

The system tray in the right-bottom portion of your screen in Windows displays not only the icons for currently running programs, but also a clock and a volume icon. Having the volume icon in the...

Developed by Macromedia in 1996, Flash is a technology used to make multimedia files or those that combine audio and video. A number of different file types are associated with Flash, including...

PS Guard is a spyware that disguises itself as a legitimate anti-spyware program. It changes the desktop wallpaper--hence the "Desktop hijacker" nickname--to an alert warning you of virus and...

If you own a collection of concert DVDs, you have probably found yourself wishing you could listen to the music on your MP3 player. By ripping the audio track of the DVD to an MP3 file, you can do...

A Barcode is a sequence of vertical bars and spaces aligned in a certain pattern to identify objects. Barcode technology usually stores and implements the identification number of the product.

Spy Protector is a rogue spyware application that tries to trick you into buying the Spy Protector program to remove spyware and malware from your PC. This Web parasite infects computers via...

Adobe Photoshop is the standard software application for digital imaging. Professionals and amateurs alike can harness its power through its simple interface. Creating an image of an alphabet in...

Adobe Flash Player is one of the most popular players of videos online. The player plays FLV videos through your web browser as a plug-in. Sites like YouTube use this format to stream videos. To...

Splitting a large MP3 file requires software able to play back an MP3. iTunes, free for download from Apple.com, is a standard MP3 player for both PC and Mac users. iTunes allows clients to split...

XP Security Center exploits video codecs and Active X control downloads that are accepted by inexperienced users unaware that they are downloading a spyware. Once it installs itself, the web...

One of the most-used spreadsheet computer programs is Microsoft Excel. Once you have entered your data and want to make a visual representation of it, you can have Excel make the graph for you. If...

Spyware Guard is spyware in the long list of fake applications that disguise themselves as a legitimate product. This parasite infects computers through trojan viruses and generates fake system...

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application that allows users to organize, manipulate and visually represent data. One of the elements of an Excel spreadsheet is a formula, or an entry consisting...

Flash videos, or FLVs, are a common format for Internet use among PC and Mac users. YouTube, for example, compresses uploaded videos to the Flash standard, as does Google Video, according to PC...

Personal Antivirus is a spyware that infects computers through trojan viruses. Once it invades your computer the parasite begins generating system alerts and messages that show virus infections;...

Adobe Flash Player is a popular online video player. Flash Player uses FLV files to play the video. YouTube, among other sites, uses this format to provide its videos. You can convert these online...

Quicktime is a popular choice for digital video creation. Some of the most often used video production software designed for Apple computers use the Quicktime .MOV file as their native format for...