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This is the second part of my post about Rewriting on a write-once discs. The first article is a vital one so that this second part be easier to understand, and also you can get and formulate some ideas and concepts about this burning hot thing. If you have a lot of CD-Rs and DVD-Rs stocked on your room and is needed to be disposed of because you no longer need and use it, then just read this post. You may use that burned CD again. Yes! I repeat you can still use it again,,, again and again. Again, this tutorial is only meant for Windows 7 operating system only. Before you start: Just make sure that you no longer use the files on the disc because this tutorial will format the whole disc, meaning all the files in it will be permanently erased. As discussed on the first part , formatting or deleting files on a read-only / recordable disc does not provide you an additional free space on your disc. The memory allocation for the deleted file will still be counted as...

Part 1 Yes! you heard it right! You can now make your CD+/-R or DVD+/-R act like a rewritable one. During the Windows XP days, this is impossible. Once you have written something on a recordable disc, then you can't save a file on it anymore. Rewriting on a discs can only be done through CD+/-RW or DVD+/-RW type of discs. These rewritable type of discs costs as much as two to five times compared with the write-once or recordable discs. As I have upgraded my operating system from Windows XP into Windows 7, I have discovered several exciting things about it. I first thought that this feature is only designed for RW discs, but I have once experimented it on a write-once disc and it worked! This discovery is among the most important feature of Windows 7 that I am using until now. I've researched on it and found out that this is possible through the Windows 7's UDF file system To do this, you need the following: A blank CD-R, CD+R, DVD-R or a DVD+R An optical bu...

Since I learned how to surf the internet, I never used Internet Explorer (versions 8 and below). The interface is very dull and the browsing speed is very slow. But since I had switched to a newer version of the Internet Explore, IE9, everything has changed. Before I came up with IE9, I had tested several web browsers before - Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Rockmelt. If I were to rate these browsers according to their performance (up to scale of 5), it will be: Mozilla Firefox: I had once used this browser before I met Google Chrome. That's it. Google Chrome: I had used this browser for a very long time. The interface is very good, very easy to understand. The browsing speed is amazingly fast. But... It consumes memory and CPU Usage a lot. I am currently using a laptop with an Intel Centrino 1.4GHz processor, 512MB DDR RAM and a 32MB ATI Radeon Video Card. That means running a massive program causes crashes on the system. This is the main reason why...

CCleaner got a must-have update; a reader wants to know if two security apps are better than one; Windows 7's Recent Places feature can save you time. By  Rick Broida ,  PCWorld     Nov 3, 2010 7:00 am Want to clean and optimize your PC? You've probably heard of CCleaner, arguably the world's most popular tool for doing the job. Developer Piriform just released  CCleaner 3.0 . The big news in this update? A native 64-bit version for use with like editions of Windows. Like the last release, CCleaner clears out temporary files, cleans the Windows Registry, erases browser histories, and so on. Version 3.0 also sports new icons, various interface improvements, better support for Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 9, and newly added support for programs like AVG AntiVirus 10.0, Audacity, LogMeIn Hamachi, BitTorrent, and Windows Game Explorer. I particularly like the way it intelligently scans for cookies you'd want to keep, like those for Google and Yaho...

Whether you're a grizzled tech veteran or an uninitiated newbie, here are 15 essential facts and tricks that you ought to know. By  Patrick Miller ,  PCWorld     Aug 17, 2010 10:00 am Think you know tech? If you don't have a handle on every single one of these 15 tech facts, habits, and efficiency tricks, you're not living up to your potential. 1. Don't double-click everything.  Windows 101: Double-clicking is how you open items in Windows. It's not how you open links in your Web browser, click buttons in dialog boxes, or do pretty much anything else--and if you reflexively double-click, you might accidentally zip right past something important or submit a form twice. If you don't need this reminder yourself, chances are you know someone who does. 2. Use slashes and backslashes in the appropriate situations.  Let's get it straight: / is a slash (or forward slash, if you must), and \ is a backslash. Backslashes are conventionally used for Windows ...

Users of Google's upcoming social network Google+ may soon get a middle ground of sorts between seeing less of what a person is doing and blocking them outright by clicking on the "Ignore" option. Google's Olga Wichrowska said the "Ignore" option can spare a Google+ member from seeing what an "ignored" person is sharing. "Ignoring someone is basically saying you’re just not interested – maybe you don’t know them, or maybe you don’t want to see what they’re sharing," she  said  in a Google+ post. She said that when a Google+ member ignores someone, they won't: see any of ignored person's posts in the Incoming stream get notifications about their activities see them on your Circles page People who had been ignored in Google+ will not be notified, Wichrowska said. She said the Ignore option can be accessed from Notifications in the Google+ bar, or the Notifications stream; or from Incoming. It can also be accessed ...

  One week after tech and social media-related terms retweet, sexting, cyberbullying, and woot made it to the Oxford English Dictionary’s 100th edition, another batch of such terms have been included in this year’s update of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Merriam-Webster said the inclusion of words like social media, tweet and crowdsourcing is “yet another sign of our era's communications revolution." "From the dramatic events of the Arab Spring to the scandal that brought down Congressman Anthony Weiner, tweet is a word that has been part of the story. We've been tracking words like social media and tweet for years, of course, and now we feel their meanings have stabilized enough to include them in the dictionary,"  said Peter Sokolowski,  Merriam-Webster's Editor at Large. According to Merriam-Webster's social media and tweet are just two of over 150 new words and definitions that have been added to this year’s edition of its dictionar...