Flash drives are carried around by millions of people every day because of the convenience that portable storage offers.

Microsoft has finally launched a public preview of Photosynth which is designed to turn your 2D images into a 3D world. At this point they only have a few pre-built collections for you to browse but they say that they are working on an efficient way so that anyone can add their own images to the online application.

Do you need to access your computer when you're gone? Is it a pain trying to help someone with their computer problems when they live hours away? CrossLoop aims to solve that issue by letting you painlessly connect to the other person's computer using a program that takes just seconds to install.

If you have a hard time reading some websites then you should download the NoSquint Firefox extension. Once installed you can adjust the default text zoom level so that the text will appear larger or smaller by default. You can also have it change the size of the text based on the domain you are visiting.

Microsoft has decided to offer a free Virtual PC image of Windows XP SP2 that is already activated. The reason they are offering this is so that users will be able to test out websites on Internet Explorer 6 SP2 because you can't have two versions of IE installed on a single computer.

The Vista Transformation Pack (VTP) for Windows XP has become very popular and version 6 is right around the corner. The developer estimates its release to be around Christmas (December 25) and it will have several great features that people have been requesting all along:

If you have your computer set to show hidden files and folders then you may have noticed a file located on your computer. You can delete it and no damage will be done, but it will probably just reappear. The file is used to cache the thumbnails of the images located in that particular directory.