The latest articles by David Webb

  • Find hardware serial number: in Windows

    When looking for the driver of a peripheral/hardware component (sound card, network card, webcam, graphics card, etc..), it can be useful to retrieve its identification number/serial number. Follow the procedure explained below to find out how to do this.

  • Recover deleted photos: Android, Android internal storage

    If you have accidentally deleted an important photo or video from your Android device, chances are you want to recover it. When you delete a file, the system only deletes the information relating to its location on the device memory. A deleted file can be recovered once the memory space it occupies has not been overwritten by new data. Continue reading to discover how to recover deleted photos on an Android phone's internal memory.

  • Enable text to speech: Foxit Reader, PDF

    Foxit Reader not only allows you to view your PDF files, but can also read them aloud using its text to speech feature. In order to configure this feature, follow the steps below.

  • How to create a transparent DIV in CSS

    A webmaster can make use of CSS image opacity property to create a transparent div relatively easily. A transparent div can be created with or without content. When a div is made transparent with content, images and text are also made transparent along with the div. In case the div is made transparent without content, the div alone will be transparent. To create a transparent DIV, you can make use of the CSS techniques listed in the article below.

  • How to change the BitTorrent download location?

    BitTorrent is download management software used widely across the globe. If the location of files downloaded from the internet is not changed, BitTorrent saves them in a default location. For files to be stored in a different location, changes have to be made to BitTorrent configuration settings. To change the location of downloaded files, the directory needs to be specified in the BitTorrent preferences tab.