November 16, 2010
For a lot of people, using a Windows computer isn’t exactly a experience that can be “customized”. Most people work hard just to figure out how the operating system works. The extent of “customizing” involves things like changing the Windows desktop background or configuring the default email system. Given, there are plenty of readers that [...]
October 1, 2010
Sometimes Apple, with all its advanced wizardry, overlooks the little things in its operating system that make some of us Mac users scratch our heads and say, “what the heck are they thinking?!” But rest assured, third party developers come along with awesome applications that help the rest of us tinker around with the system [...]
May 31, 2010
As you know, Ubuntu and Linux are hugely configurable. Find some spare time and you can customize anything starting from the boot up messages to the gradients used on the buttons and the scroll bars. While one might not attempt such extreme feats very often, administration and configuration are standard tasks that you might perform [...]
May 24, 2010
Overclocking is the art of increasing the speed of computer hardware beyond stock settings and is a popular way of improving computer performance. Video cards, like many other components, can be overclocked in order to increase performance in games. If you ever wanted to overclock your video card, it used to be difficult, but competition [...]
January 19, 2010
If you and your keyboard are not hitting it off, then maybe it’s time to consider remapping your keyboard. You can get along without a mouse, but the same is not true about the keyboard. Remapping your keyboard is a productivity tweak. Remapping the keyboard involves customizing certain keys for specific functions. As an example [...]
October 18, 2009
Everybody knows that tinkering with hidden configurations of any system is not for newbies. Regular users should stay within the boundary of “just using and no screwing”. There are so many disaster stories caused by those who step out of their territories, that we often hear sayings like: “If it’s not broken, don’t fix it” [...]
May 29, 2009
USB flash drives are our personal data carriers, but the way we use it to exchange files also makes them open to viruses. The Achilles heel which viruses exploit is the autorun.inf file. Autorun.inf file is a simple instruction file present in removable media like CDs, DVDs and USB drives. This file contains a series [...]
March 26, 2009
We’ve covered a lot of ways to tweak Windows to your liking. Some of those tweaks have been simple settings hidden behind a menu while some were hidden options in the registry. If you’ve been a regular Make Use Of reader, I’m sure you have your Windows system configured exactly to your liking. But what [...]
March 24, 2009
Google has a track record of providing high quality online applications and services. Gmail was a revolution in the field of web-based mail services. Until today it continues to set the standards by introducing new features and improving the user experience. We have previously covered Google Labs features for Gmail. Here are 7 more innovative [...]
January 7, 2009
You’ve done everything you can to get your computer back up to speed. You’ve used all the tools there are to save space, defrag, and get rid of junk. You’ve done all you can but your computer still…..runs…dead……s-l-o-w. The first thing I check on a slow computer is if it is running in PIO or [...]
