Flash video (FLV) is really popular on the internet, and if you like to keep your favorite YouTube videos on your personal computer, we’ve written some great guides about how to download those videos. The downside is that you’ll usually need a FLV video player to watch them again, and you most likely won’t be able [...]

Ookong is a free application that helps you find the best deals on Amazon, and it’s so useful that I’ve mentioned it in two of my previous articles about saving money when shopping online (3 Useful Firefox Add-ons To Help Save You Money and 3 Google Chrome Extensions to Save $$$ When Shopping Online).  The [...]

If you’re like me, you like to try out a wide variety of applications for your computer, especially when something new is released. If you’re reading this article, chances are you love checking out apps that can add new functionality to your system. The unfortunate downside to these activities, however, is that your computer can start [...]

Hard drives are huge nowadays, not just in popularity, but also in data storage size.  Now that you can easily pick up a terabyte hard drive for a reasonable price, you have a new problem: how do you split up that space? Partitioning is a method of dividing storage space inside a hard drive and lets [...]

If you’re anything like me, you have most of your digital media collection, such as movies and television shows, safely backed up onto your PC. This way, you never have to worry about your physical media being damaged (or stolen) and you can burn your own discs if you ever want to watch it on [...]

Backing up your data has never been more important.  Your entire digital life – photos, music, videos, and all of your hard work ““ can be gone in an instant, and without regular backups, that data might be gone forever.  Even I go too long backing up my data, so it’s important to remember that [...]

Video games — the absolute best way to waste a couple hours on a rainy weekend. Or heck, the best way to waste a couple hours on any weekend. You can be a soldier in almost any war (without that pesky risk of dying), fly through space, fight endless hordes of zombies, or micro-manage a virtual [...]

If you use YouTube, Blogger, Picasa, Google Docs, Google Contacts, or Google Calendar, some recent news from the Open Source at Google blog might pique your interest: you can now use all of these Google services from the command line. Yes, the command line – that sexy, monochrome, text-based terminal where hackers do their dirty [...]

Many changes have been made to Facebook’s privacy settings in the past few months – enough to make your head spin.  If you’re like me and have been just “hoping for the best” as changes are continually rolled out, a new tool is available to clearly visualize and modify your privacy settings on the popular social [...]

Online mapping services make planning a car trip much easier than it used to be, and Bing is seeking to make their service, Bing Maps, the best site on the internet to create your next travel plans. The new version of Bing Maps has a unique feature called Maps Apps, which are extra components you [...]