April 18, 2009
It doesn’t matter if you are looking to find out about how much bandwidth you are using to determine if your ISP is charging you fairly, if your net connection is a bottleneck or simply because you are like me and love statistics. Well we can use this simple bandwidth monitoring tool called Networx. If [...]
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April 17, 2009
Do you want to listen to your old music cassettes or vinyl records on your iPod or PC? Well, there’s a easy way to convert all of your precious LPs to MP3 using the free Audacity software! We have covered Audacity before, to record audio files or create your own MP3 ringtones. Now let’s see [...]
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April 15, 2009
Any type of increased productivity in the workplace is a bonus to any employer. More real estate on your large LCD screen for multitasking at home, keeps your A.D.D. laden mind occupied for hours at at time. Adding multiple monitors is one of the more popular options today, with the decreasing cost of monitors and [...]
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April 15, 2009
If you’re like me at all, Google knows a lot, maybe too much, about you. Who you chat with, the content of all your email messages, your medical records, and your calendar. I’ve tried every method I could think of to have my Google Calendar easily accessible from my Windows desktop: Google Desktop gadgets, the [...]
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April 14, 2009
Ever worked late into the night on your computer and found yourself blinded by the light from the monitor? Yes, all of us have experienced it at some point or another. So what do you do then? Get down and dirty and adjust the screen’s brightness to be a little easy on the eyes, only [...]
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April 13, 2009
We live in paranoid times. But didn’t someone say ““ “Securing a computer system has traditionally been a battle of wits: the penetrator tries to find the holes, and the designer tries to close them.” After looking at ways to password protect files and folders, after getting through some ways to secure the entire system, [...]
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April 13, 2009
If you’ve been to my personal blog, you know I’m a kind of big guy. Some say I’m big-boned, but really, I’ve never seen a fat skeleton. Anyway, enough self-deprecation. The point is, I would like to get healthier and that means leaner and that means exercise. Walking is probably the best exercise for me, [...]
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April 12, 2009
In recent times, most people that surf the web have or have had a blog. And as we’re living in the technologically advanced era, we’re prone to yearning for making anything that seems remotely inconvenient, well, simple. This is where this quick, easy, and simple desktop blogging tool comes into place. Why not simplify the [...]
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April 12, 2009
If you’re a music lover or a DJ, either amateur or professional, then you’ve likely come across the many free music mixing software apps offered on the Internet for playing, recording and mixing audio tracks. There have been some major successes as well as failures through the years. The most popular successful mixing application that [...]
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April 11, 2009
Ever get tired of all those windows open on your desktop? Want an easier alternative way to browse and quickly access your folders? Have a look at Hawkscope. A 2 MB download, Hawkscope requires JRE (Java Runtime Environment) to be installed on your computer. If you don’t have it installed, it will take you to [...]
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April 11, 2009
I came across a program today when I was looking for an application to help optimize TCP connections. If you don’t already know, TCP connections are how you connect to the internet or your network. By optimizing your connection you will get the best speeds you can from your hardware. Most people don’t know what [...]
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April 10, 2009
In the Oil and Gas industry, our computer users are often several hundreds of miles away from a hamlet, let alone a city. The average user is also much more of a hands-on kind of person and is usually a novice computer user. The environment they work in is rife with dust and dirt and, [...]
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April 10, 2009
Most of us take pains over our personal computers almost with the same love as we would have for a pet. Most of us get equally concerned when the computer takes ‘ill’. If the source and the reasons for the problem elude us, concern warps into a head banging frenzy. It could be a failed [...]
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April 9, 2009
Microsoft, like all other software companies, releases patches and hot fixes for its Windows operating system quite frequently. Installing the latest patch or Hot fix is highly recommended if you want to keep your installation in tip-top shape. These patches are mostly harmless but there are times when your current configuration, hardware or software might [...]
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April 8, 2009
Hi there. Post 4 of 5. We’ve looked at Installation, Views and Editing, and now we’re going to take a look at the special effects magic that Picasa can work on your images. Feel free to head back to the start, or just dive in here. Kate, who has been helping me with Mac version [...]
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