July 3, 2010
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 [...]
May 18, 2010
I see many different types of infections on a daily basis. Sometimes the infection is so new that your antivirus application does not detect it. The majority of these types of infections are called scareware. They infect your machine by any number of methods that exploit weaknesses or vulnerabilities in your system. Then they tell [...]
April 19, 2010
It’s time once again for our featured Movers and Shakers post. Each week, we take one software category and list the top ten most downloaded free apps. This week, we are looking at system utilities. These are the apps that can be used to help manage your Windows system. We will see utilities that help [...]
February 7, 2010
Installing and using a system is one thing and managing it efficiently with an eye to secure your computer system is quite a different game altogether. Things can get cumbersome pretty easily specially on Linux computers, even more so if you are a new user. There are tons of commands, thousand of locations to look [...]
January 28, 2010
These days most people have more than one Internet connection. Like I have one for home, another while I am traveling and then add to then, the one I get at my workplace. Now, I happen to use my laptop at home, on the go and at the office as well. Anyone who has been [...]
January 21, 2010
Ask any Mac user to make a list of applications that opens the most on their machine and you’ll definitely see Finder there. Then someone would say that it’s unfair to allow Finder to be on the list because Mac users don’t even have a choice. Finder always starts automatically with Mac OS X, and [...]
January 13, 2010
Hey you wanna-be Mac Power users, this article is a follow-up to Your Quick Guide To The Services Menu On Snow Leopard published on Monday. While Apple has improved its Services Menu in Snow Leopard, it’s not very useful unless you have items in it that you can use. Some 3rd party applications will automatically [...]
January 11, 2010
In the release of Apple’s latest operating system, Snow Leopard, Apple made some significant changes to its Services Menu feature, so that it’s a little easier to manage and more practical to use. The upgrades are far from perfect, but if you want to be a Mac power user, you should know about how to [...]
January 9, 2010
I was just able to check out the latest beta of Speccy from the makers of CCleaner which we have covered here. Speccy gives you an awesome amount of advanced system information about your PC from a tiny portable application. I downloaded the application from here. It is available in both a portable and an [...]
December 30, 2009
Most of us can clock 80″“90 mph on a highway, but how many of us can handle a breakdown and change a car essential like an air filter? Some of us perhaps”¦but not all. It’s just like cruising on the information superhighway on our computers. Not everyone has an idea of what goes on under [...]
