February 25, 2009
Back in the days when computer hard disk capacities were within the range of a few megabytes and the majority of files were text documents, compression utilities like WinZip and WinRAR ruled the land. But in the terabytes world of today, we do not really need to compress any file for the sole purpose of [...]
January 21, 2009
Picture this… You have a corrupted driver on your windows machine or your installation of that new game mod you downloaded does not work. Either which way you are missing a single file and might have to download a HUGE zip file to get it. I hate this with a passion. Why should I have [...]
November 27, 2008
Here’s a great way to pass some time: browse through some photography archives. Students, teachers, scrapbookers and bloggers may find inspiration as well as material through several different websites. Recently, Life Magazine’s historic photo archive was made available to the public through Google Image Search, which can be accessed directly from the Google homepage. Some [...]
November 11, 2008
Quite honestly, I’m not much into online social networks. A membership with sites like MySpace or Facebook doesn’t appeal to me since I don’t see what the benefit would be, and although I’m a member, I don’t have a use for Flickr or YouTube at the moment. Nevertheless, I appreciate the existence of these networks [...]
September 26, 2008
In addition to offering a wealth of information, the internet also provides us with a ton of tools. Are you taking full advantage of them? For example, how well do you manage your life? Are you well organized, do you easily remember birthdays, deadlines and appointments? Should you struggle with these tasks, don’t worry, most [...]
May 14, 2008
No I am not talking about the Wayback machine used in Rocky and Bullwinkle from what seems like a lifetime ago. I am talking about the Internet initiative to index and store websites as they were in the past. To some this may seem trivial or pointless, but to me this is awesome! I knew [...]
March 10, 2008
I format my Mac once a year, either because it’s clunked up with old .plist files or because I just feel like performing a zero-out on my hard disk. One good thing about owning a Mac is never having to worry about installing drivers after reformatting. So that’s one problem avoided. Having a checklist of [...]
November 3, 2007
Last time I discussed finding drivers for your software programs and also how to set up a printer on Windows. Well today I am going to get onto a more interesting topic – what to put on your computer. I know countless other blogs have done lists like this so this isn’t anything groundbreaking. But [...]
August 22, 2007
Today’s recommended tool is one which I have been using for only a week but I am already hooked because it is a tool which I have been looking for for a long time and it works extremely well. I was convinced for a long time that such a tool was out there somewhere and [...]
