Have you ever seen people at concerts holding an iPhone up in the air, trying to record the live performance (and probably uploading it somewhere later on as well)? But they usually […]
Sometimes when you write an article, review or letter you need to take into consideration the age and education of the reader. Your choice of words and sentence structure should reflect the […]
The first Windows 8 video, that Microsoft posted on June 2 on YouTube, offered a sneak peek of the touch interface of the upcoming Microsoft operating system. It caused quite the confusion, […]
Over the years there have been all sorts of fun ways to edit one's Linux terminal window. In addition to editing all the boring old things like text color and scroll settings, […]
I've got a keen interest in smartphones and tablets. I think they're just both so brilliant for what you can do with them. For instance, being able to store spreadsheets and important […]
Push-Over was a platform puzzle type of game in the early Nineties. I cannot remember a lot about it but the fact that you seem to have played an ant and that […]
It is no secret to anyone that between the dates of April 17th and 19th, still as yet unnamed hackers broke into Sony’s database and stole the personal data of more than […]
Many programs can be used to convert videos into mp3 format, so that the audio becomes accessible in a separate file. This can be helpful to turn music videos downloaded from the […]
There's been a lot of talk recently about the next version of Windows running on ARM processors at only 1GHz. Many people have been skeptical, few more so than myself. Rather than […]
One of the things that you can be relatively sure of when buying a new PC or laptop is that it will be filled with software that you do not necessarily need […]
We may still be at least a year away from Windows 8's big debut in 2012, but the OS arena is heating up like never before, and new competitors are stepping up […]
I still have CDs lying around that I have created more than ten years ago. Some of them are still working fine while others have unreadable sectors or files. I'm not sure […]
Twitter CEO, Dick Costolo, announced to the world yesterday that Twitter was going to be rolling out its very own photo-sharing service over the next few weeks. He made this announcement yesterday, […]
Flash cards can be an effective learning technique. It is especially effective to learn vocabulary and subject matters that can be learned via a question and answer format, which is for instance […]
Picasa users who upload photos to the online photo hosting service can flag them as public or private. Public photos and galleries become searchable on the Picasa website. Everyone can view and […]
This week I've been testing Samsung's new Ultraportable laptop, their Macbook Air equivalent. Yesterday I wrote about the hardware itself which is absolutely gorgeous and even lighter than the Air. Today I'll […]
Information about Microsoft's next version of Windows has been limited to indirect sources including job postings, Windows 8 leaks or third party sites that got insider information. Yesterday, Microsoft published a first […]
Web companies like Google, WordPress or Facebook are suddenly realizing that old web browsers may have a serious impact on the support they offer. While everyone applauds the companies for dropping support […]
When Microsoft Security Essentials is installed on a computer with Windows 7, you automatically become a member of the Microsoft Security Essentials and Microsoft Defender community and grant Microsoft the ability to […]
Ranked as the no. 2 PC manufacturing company in the world, Acer Inc. has announced plans to produce an ultra book which will be a super light computer model. The plan is […]
A few days ago I have reviewed the Firefox add-on GrabMyBooks which can be used to turn multiple web pages into an ePub ebook. Today I'm reviewing the free service 2ePub which […]
One of the biggest issues that I personally have with Firefox, and that for a very long time, is the fact that add-on preferences are not deleted when the add-on that has […]
There are numerous reasons why files become corrupt or damaged. Possible reasons include malware that modifies files, application failures, crashes, network errors or manual tampering with the file contents. Damaged files usually […]
In the race to beat the Macbook Air for size and portability, there have been precious few Windows laptops. Indeed so far we've only seen Sony's Z Series and the Dell Adamo […]
Mobile users have to keep an eye on the battery level of their device when they use it without connection to a direct power source. If they do not it can happen […]
One of the dumbest ideas ever on Facebook is that friends can automatically add you to groups. I'm not sure why Facebook thinks that giving friends the power to add you to […]
DataGrab is a free tool for the Windows operating system that can be used to backup user profile data and other data from a connected drive. The portable backup software displays a […]
After showing you how to protect your Facebook account login from malicious attacks, it is time to show you how to protect your Google account and login as well. Your Google login […]
Google Chrome is one of the leading web browsers and it has become increasingly popular with tech savvy folks as well as those who aren’t quite as tech savvy. The simplicity, usability […]
PDF readers can be categorized in three groups. You got heavyweight applications like Adobe Reader that offer the best compatibility at the expense of performance, lightweight applications like Sumatra PDF reader that […]
Google recently launched its new online music service through Google Music Beta which is jam- packed with features. It allows uploading up to 20,000 songs on to the virtual cloud known as […]
In the final part of this article series I want to look at what the future might hold for the Internet and all of us who use it. So far I've discussed […]
The new tab page of the Google Chrome browser offers little options to change layout or contents. The page displays the bookmarks bar, web apps, most visited websites and recently closed sites […]
Microsoft has just released a beta of a system recovery software. Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper has been designed to aid users in starting an infected PC and performing offline malware scans to […]
In the first two parts of this article series I've written about how Iran is reportedly planning to build their own in-country Internet and asked if western countries want to constrain the […]
This article is the fourth and final part of a series on the basics of network troubleshooting. The tools covered in the previous articles (ping, ipconfig, tracert and pathping) will be combined […]
Facebook has been rolling out new or improved security and privacy features in rapid succession for the past year. Many of the changes have only been announced on the official blog and […]
Cryoserver Email archiving software is a standalone application which in addition to archiving email messages offers fast search of the information stored in messages through indexing. Now-a-days email systems provide more features […]
Skype users who use Windows as their operating system may currently receive update notifications when they run Skype. The update, which displays right after the launch of the voice over IP software […]
Grab my Books is a handy Firefox add-on for users who want to convert multiple web pages to the EPub ebook format. The add-on offers options to add the active page, a […]
