I wonder if anyone remembers these anymore. Back in the day (early 90s), Internet access wasn’t readily available for personal use. I still went to a local computer shop (Schadt Computertechnik, at one point the third largest PC store chain in Germany, ceased existing a few years later, in 1998) to get up to date…
Category: Software
Gaming Memories – Game Wizard
Back in the days when I switched from the Game Gear over to the PC (with MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 at the time), I was used to being able to cheat in games easily. Sometimes through codes in a game, but mostly due to the Action Replay Pro I had (an alternative to the…
Thoughts on WordPress 5.0 / Gutenberg and Public Information (or rather lack thereof)
I have been using WordPress for quite some time now, since it’s easy to setup and nicely customizable through lots of plugins and themes. Something that hasn’t changed for a while is the post editor and that’s about to be replaced in WordPress 5.0 with the Gutenberg editor. As this change in WordPress 5.0 is…
Software Recommendation: Stardock Groupy
When a lot of apps are open in Windows, things can become a bit confusing. A tool like Groupy can help with that. When it is active, you can (as the name implies) group apps together, so you can keep them in one place and switch in between them through tabs (even comes with a…
Software Recommendation – SpeedCommander
Alternative file managers go back to DOS times with the prominent example Norton Commander (though it wasn’t the first of its kind), showing two file/directory listings side by side to better manage content of floppies, hard drives etc. While with each new OS version the default file manager improved, the market for alternative file managers…