Posts tagged: security

0MS Office LogoBatch convert old MS Office documents

Published on by in Misc Software.

I’ve been try­ing to sort out an enorm­ous (100+GB) or teach­ing resources that I’ve built-up over the years.  After the obvi­ous steps (delet­ing empty, temp and duplic­ated files) and sort­ing the big files (e.g. videos, applic­a­tion installers) I was left with a large num­ber of office doc­u­ments.  I am slowly work­ing through these, but many… Read more »

0PC Hardware CPU RAM UpgradeSimple ways to make your PC much faster

Published on by in Misc Software. Updated 25th February 2013.

There are lots of tips and advice out there on the inter­net about how to tweak the per­form­ance of your PC. Some of them have some use­ful tips, but the vast major­ity are of very little use, either because they are for the wrong oper­at­ing sys­tem, or they don’t apply to your setup, or because… Read more »

0NoScript logoImprove your browsing security without crippling lots of sites

Published on by in Web Technologies. Updated 5th October 2011.

I always recom­mend that people install an altern­at­ive browser to Inter­net Explorer. Per­son­ally I prefer Fire­fox to the other altern­at­ives (Chrome, Opera, Safari) as I find the huge num­ber of addons on offer give it an unas­sail­able advant­age. I’ve recently exper­i­mented with the NoScript addon, which enhances secur­ity by block­ing act­ive objects and scripts unless… Read more »

0Internet Explorer 9 LogoHow to launch HTML based programs fullscreen

Published on by in Web Technologies. Updated 16th June 2012.

I was asked recently if I could copy a teach­ing resource from a CD-ROM onto a laptop com­puter. This par­tic­u­lar pro­gram is mostly HTML with some embed­ded videos. There were 2 prob­lems with run­ning it from a local short­cut. 1. Inter­net Explorer secur­ity warn­ings 2. The full-screen win­dow is launched by a par­ent browser win­dow… Read more »