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?

Keep Reading »

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?

Keep Reading »

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.

Keep Reading »

Months after you purchase and use a Mac—or any computer for that matter—it may stop performing at a rapid speed like it did fresh out of the box. Magician Monitor is a little application that you can park anywhere on your desktop and click on it to get an overall view of how your Mac is running.

Keep Reading »

Netbooks, and other small ultra-portable computers including Windows tablets, are well loved because of their small footprint and light weight. However, netbooks are far less powerful than the typical notebook PC, which means they can have trouble running applications that other PCs have no problem with. This means that anyone who wants a snappy netbook [...]

Keep Reading »

What is your computer doing in there? On the exterior it is a mass of plastics and metals, roughly pressed together to provide your PC with a protective case. But is it protecting your PC from the outside, or is it protecting you from the strange and arcane things happening inside your PC? Perhaps it [...]

Keep Reading »

Windows Task Manager has evolved into a reasonably good utility. It offers a lot of information about what your computer is doing at any particular moment; the programs running, the load on the processor, and network activity are displayed. There are limits to what Windows Task Manager can do for you however. If you’re interested [...]

Keep Reading »

One of the biggest problems with being addicted to new software is the tendency for “leftover” processes and files to remain throughout my PC – sometimes even viruses, adware or malware. One of the reasons I was most motivated to write this article for MakeUseOf was because I found that my computer startup time was [...]

Keep Reading »

Applications are an integral part of any operating system. They give your machine specific abilities and enhances your computer using experience. Today, there are virtually applications for almost every kind of task that you can think of. During the years of my interactions with computers, I’ve found and tried countless applications of various magnitudes; from [...]

Keep Reading »

As computers have become such a big part of our everyday lives, we have grown to expect faster and faster desktops and laptops for our daily activities. One of the problems with those fast processors and hard drives is that since they have to fit more power into increasingly smaller spaces, they end up reaching [...]

Keep Reading »