January 19, 2012
New online threats emerge every day, attacking corporations and consumers alike. These potentials threats aren’t disguised just as links or emails anymore. They could be coming for your personal information in all sorts of ways. Here, we will be taking a look at ClamWin, an open-source anti-virus program that’s been around for a while. Should you get it? Read on to find out.
January 18, 2012
Does running your laptop on AC power damage the battery? Should you remove the battery to increase its lifetime? If you own a laptop, these questions have probably crossed your mind before. The short answer to both questions is: most likely yes. Curious to learn why? Continue reading for all the juicy details.
January 15, 2012
Hunting for device drivers isn’t such a task anymore, anyway. Most of your Windows drivers will never need to be touched right out of the box. Your video card is in its own sacred territory though. Video card drivers are updated more frequently than, for example, your network card’s drivers. Updating your video card drivers can show a huge performance boost across your system, as well. Keeping these drivers up to date is quite essential if you’re a gamer.
January 6, 2012
One of the fun things about being a computer geek is showing off with multiple displays going on all at once. These might include scrolling text across various windows, and a second screen full of real-time graphs rolling from right to left, showing every last detail about the status of every computer system on the network – CPU usage, battery levels of all of the laptops, and remaining hard drive space on all systems.Wouldn’t it be cool to have an application that would offer such a display?
January 4, 2012
One of the things that I find myself doing much more often since diving into IT is monitoring and checking the status of services running on computers that are running across the company. There is the standard way of managing services which most people use because it’s well-known and fairly easy. But what about another way?
December 23, 2011
One of the things that I’ve been procrastinating about for a very long time is sorting through all of the pictures, videos, data files and wide assortment of other “stuff” that’s scattered throughout my computer like a cluttered basement that’s just waiting to be cleaned. The only thing is that I can never find the time to actually tidy up my computer.
December 21, 2011
I recently bought a nice new setup for my media centre, but I didn’t want to splash out on another DVD drive when physical media is basically dead – and swapping out a DVD drive from another machine just to install Windows seems like such a waste of time when I could be eating Christmas pudding. Today I’ll outline a relatively easy way to make a bootable Windows installation USB drive.
December 19, 2011
Let’s face it. Even for the geekiest computer lovers among us, computers can sometimes turn into a nightmare. Don’t get me wrong, I love computers – they play a huge part in my everyday life and I cannot do without them. But we all have our own personal computer nightmares. These are mine. What are yours?
December 16, 2011
When computers work well, things are pretty cool. Every component of your PC just….works. But when you get one of those nasty little downloads – one of those little scripts or apps that dig its way deep down into the heart of your computer – it can be unnerving. Luckily, there is a new tool you can use to manually go through and clean up those evil processes.
December 15, 2011
Easily make a copy of your entire hard drive . Don’t just back up your data: back up all of your software, your settings and everything else by cloning your entire hard drive. Redo Backup makes cloning your system easy, but also gives you access to file recovery and a variety of other tools. You can even browse the web while everything’s happening.
