How would you like to be able to see a preview of the web page a link will take you to before you click on it?
Or how about being able to quickly preview the images in online photo galleries just by hovering your mouse over the thumbnails?
A wonderful free Google Chrome extension called SwiftPreview will let you perform both of these tricks!
SwiftPreview is extremely simple and easy to use. Simply install the add-on, then whenever you hover your mouse over a link or thumbnail image, a preview image will be displayed on the screen. If you like what you see, simply click the link or photo and it will open in your browser as usual. If you decide the content being linked to doesn’t interest you, simply remove the mouse from the link or thumbnail and the preview goes away. [Read more…]
If you ever find yourself locked out of your Windows PC’s Administrator account because you forgot the password, you’ll be extremely limited in regards to what you can do with your computer. You won’t be able to install or remove software, add or remove hardware devices, change system settings that affect other users or even access certain files on the PC. Not a good situation to be in!
Windows 8 is vastly different from previous versions of Windows, and there is indeed a learning curve involved with learning the new Metro user interface. If you have recently bought a new PC or upgraded your existing PC to Windows 8, Microsoft has a gift for you…
If you’re like me, you typically have several windows open on your computer screen at once. If so, you might find it difficult to focus all of your attention just on the window that is currently active.
I use the Internet a lot both for work and recreation, and I encounter numerous links throughout the course of a day that interest me for one reason or another. But instead clicking each link to open the underlying page, I simply hover my mouse pointer over the link and hold down the