October 10, 2011
You may not know it, but choosing the right filesystem for your drives is actually pretty important. Although the main idea of all filesystems is the same, there are many advantages and disadvantages over each one. While there are many more filesystems out there, we’ll be looking at the most popular two, FAT32 and NTFS.
September 1, 2011
When installing Windows, the installer will ask you a strange question – how do you want to format your hard drive? For Windows systems, there are only a few possible answer choices. You either format it in NTFS or FAT, or you format it in NTFS or FAT (quick). Have you ever stopped to wonder what the difference actually is between a full and quick format?
January 25, 2011
Formatting a USB drive is no different than formatting any other drive. But how often have you actually formatted a drive and did you ever wonder what the various options mean? Most of us go with the default settings without second guessing their logic. Naturally, optimal settings depend on the type of hardware to be [...]
August 15, 2009
Ever since Microsoft first created MS Word, I’ve been using the software to write articles, college essays, important letters and just about any other document I’ve needed to create in my life. A lot of people enjoy other word processors, and I would never claim that Microsoft Word is the best one out there. All [...]
July 20, 2009
Maybe you are giving away your computer to one of your friends/family, or perhaps you are lending your hard disk to a friend. You don’t want them to be able to get your data and see what you had stored on your hard disk, so you delete everything and scrupulously make sure that you cannot [...]
April 8, 2009
Have you ever needed to read something that is on a horribly formatted website? I am talking about white text on a light colored background or dark purple text on a dark background. Maybe the page you need to retrieve some knowledge from is riddled with pornography? Or maybe you are sensitive to all the [...]
April 6, 2009
Am I finicky? I guess I am but I do like to arrange whatever I write or email with the proper space, font or indent. Call it a format fetish but I do hate the sight of email forwards with trailing blank lines and haphazard text. And the “˜>‘ which goes onto become “˜>>‘ with [...]
February 14, 2009
Most new external hard drives available in the market are designed to be plug and play. By plug and play, what I mean is that you can just plug in the hard drive and start using it right away. This is because the manufacturers send the disk initialised and ready to work with the most [...]
December 14, 2008
The solution begs the question ““ why convert a PDF document to a JPG image? The answer lies in the way we view PDF documents. PDF requires an external application like Adobe Acrobat Reader (or any other free variants) while JPG does not. Browsers have the built-in capability to display images while handling PDF documents [...]
November 26, 2008
One of the first posts I wrote as part of the MakeUseOf team was “10 Essential Mac Apps To Install After A Reformat“. That was way back in March, when I was still innocent, young and naïve. The title of the article was technically inaccurate; the introduction was misleading and a lot of controversy spewed [...]
