Having the reflexes of a cat is good for cats, and can also be quite useful for humans too. Lightning reflexes are a useful ability to maintain as the years go by. Thankfully there is a entire industry devoted to it.

If you’ve ever wanted to simply perform a function and found it to be rather convoluted, that is to say, in essence, things are not really straightforward (just like this sentence), then a program that gets to the point quickly is certainly one to have installed and available for use. PAUSE for thought.

Remember when you’d surf the web and have many browsers open so you could see different pages at the same time? Then along came multi-tab browsing, one browser with multiple tabs so you could do it all in one browser and become a tab junkie instead. Well if your desktop is even slightly similar you’ve probably [...]

Sometimes things can go wrong. Then at other times things can go wrong catastrophically. This is about the latter scenario in regard to accessing your files on a computer. Despite that sensible backup plan you have place ( you do have one don’t you? OK then, this article may help…)

If you are mobile and perhaps work between a number of different computers there is a range of software that is always good to have around. Many programs can be run entirely from a universal serial bus (USB) drive (“memory stick”, or “pen drive” are other common monikers). This has the benefit that it doesn’t [...]

The digital realm of hard disks can accumulate 1000′s of files over time. Often order needs to be injected into the files to maintain an easily navigable structure. How is it possible to introduce such organisation without the tediousness of manually renaming each file? Enter “THE Rename” by Hervé Thouzard. It allows files to be [...]

There is an editor for Windows based platforms that deserves a special mention. So special in fact that I’ve included it as part of the Life hack series. I was very impressed when I came across TheGun word editor. I had limited computing resources at the time and this perfectly fitted the bill of what [...]