The TDK 2-in-1 Micro USB 2.0 Flash Drive is a helpful USB drive that helps me backup pictures and videos taken on my Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 smartphone. Despite the fact that I use OneDrive and Flickr apps on my smartphone I occasionally backup some precious photos. It is basically a USB flash drive with both a USB 2.0 and a micro USB connector. … [Read more...]
PDF Annotator 6 review
PDF Annotator will be installed on any of my laptops since I started inking on my Lenovo Windows tablet roughly 9 years ago. Grahl software’s flagship is an amazing tool to annotate PDF-files, for example freehand pen comments, highlight like a text-marker, stamps, typed comments etc. PDF Annotator has 320.000+ happy users in 89 countries since 2004. I started using 1.5 when it was released back in 2007, while the latest version is PDF Annotator 6. … [Read more...]
PDFtk Pro – Review of an excellent PDF Toolkit
I will review PDFtk Pro, the perfect complement to Foxit PDF Reader, in this article. PDFtk Pro allows users to quickly split, merge, rotate, watermark, stamp and secure PDF files. The PDFtk Pro GUI has a limited number of settings that makes manipulating PDF-files really easy. In my personal opinion it is the Swiss army knife among the PDF Toolkits. … [Read more...]
BarCode – 24 hour hackathon to unlock your iOS and Android app in Windows
BarCode is an event to help developers, with successful iOS and Android apps in the iTunes- and Google Play store, extend their market share the Windows platform. BarCode is on February 7th and 8th 2014 where you can code behind bars in the former prison in Rotterdam, Noordsingel 115, 3035 EM in Rotterdam. … [Read more...]
Bypass Start Screen in Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2
This article describes how to bypass the start screen in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 and automatically boot to the desktop by default. The Windows 8 Start Screen is an awesome feature for touch enabled (mobile) devices, that allows you to easily navigate the installed apps on your machine. If you are using a non-touch enabled device (a classic laptop or ultrabook) it might be useful to directly boot into the desktop environment. The simple 4-step process below will help you to … [Read more...]
Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse review
The Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse is one of my favorite and most used accessories for my Windows powered notebook. It is a very lightweight mouse, with an excellent battery life, that is perfectly suited for every modern nomad. Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse - A design overview I would like to provide an overview of the product design and highlight the features that I personally like. On the Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse product page you can read the following description: "Arc Touch Mouse’s … [Read more...]
Safewallet 3 review – Store passwords in a secure personal vault
Please note that SafeWallet is discontinued. I've switched to Lastpass Premium in combination with a Yubikey. In this article I will review SafeWallet 3, an application that stores passwords in a secure vault (so you won't need to memorize all those strong 16 character passwords) and synchronizes those across different laptops and smartphones. It is simply one of those must-have applications that I'll always install, and therefore is SafeWallet (formerly SBSH SafeWallet) listed on the what … [Read more...]
Windows USB DVD Download Tool review
I've installed the Windows 8 Consumer Preview from an ISO image (both on physical hardware and on a virtual machine) with the Windows USB DVD Download Tool. Microsoft announced the Windows 8 Consumer Preview a few weeks ago at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona! The techie in me wants to install it right away to feel the new features and capabilities of Microsoft's new operating system. … [Read more...]
