Do you often run out of space on your hard drive and wonder where exactly all your space has gone? Windows includes a disk cleanup tool, but it is neither thorough nor does it highlight the space that you yourself could be wasting. Fortunately SpaceSniffer does this quite well.Often one will download files into random directories, extract zip files here and there and just forget about it over time. This waste of space builds up until there is little free space left at all. While you can perform a search for the largest files on your system, many time the space-consumers are folders with numerous small files; these are harder to detect. You will have to right-click each to see how much space it is taking. Unfortunately Windows has no simple way of checking the size of many folders at a...

It has been a long wait, but ReactOS has finally released a new version of the OS. While the update might seem minor considering it only went from 0.3.13 to 0.3.14 there are major new features in this update, numerous improvements, and hundreds of bugs have been fixed.ReactOS isn’t that well known, however it is an important open source project; an attempt to create a completely open-source operating system that is compatible with Microsoft Windows, and capable of running all Windows software. Unlike Wine, which is a compatibility layer for Linux that allows running Windows applications on Linux, ReactOS is an entire OS in itself, with a GUI, a shell, etc. It is not based on Linux, but has a kernel designed to be similar to Windows NT. Which means you have the tradition...

For the first time, with the release of Creative Suite 5.5 Adobe introduced a subscription model that would enable people to subscribe to Adobe software rather than outright buy it. So a web developer needing only Dreamweaver could subscribe to just Dreamweaver for $29 a month, if subscribed for less than a year, or $19 a month for a full year subscription. The standard edition of Photoshop for example was priced at $35 a month for a year’s subscription and $50 a month if subscribed on a monthly basis. For After Effects this was as high as $49 and $75 respectively. The idea was, that if one is subscribed they will get all updates and upgrades, major or minor that are released in their subscription period for free; those who have bought the software outright will have to pay for an...