about 1 year ago - 12 comments
Hey folks, Have you ever been completely annoyed by people asking you questions that they could have totally answered on their own? Most people don’t realize that a well formed web query is just as good as asking the right person the right question at the right time. Google, for most people, is just that…
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
Hello Boys and Girls, It seems other companies aside from Apple are putting their thinking caps on and breaking all kinds of molds. There was a mold. Apple didn’t exactly break the mold for tablets, as shown in this nifty diagram. All they did was scale it up. An overgrown cellphone won’t last very long…
about 2 years ago - 7 comments
Please follow this email chain between myself and our friend Karl AKA ATA. ————————————— ME Here’s the scenario…. Backed up info off old laptop to external HD. During XP install I saw two identical drives…nuked the first partition and tried to install. XP said no. Nuked the 2nd one…XP allowed the install. JOY!!! You know…
about 2 years ago - 7 comments
So you don’t want to dole out the big bucks for some fancy smancy cd/dvd authoring suite just to burn cd’s and disk images? Or how about you don’t want the bloat from said suite? No it’s probably that you are just like me and a big cheapskate when it comes to buying software! Either…
about 2 years ago - 4 comments
Have you ever wanted to talk to your computer? You know like “Music On” or “Kill Stupid Flanders!” Well in Windows Vista, you can! And it is as easy as this: Click the Start menu >> Click Control Panel >> Click Speech Recognition. >> Click Start Speech Recognition >> Now you can tell your computer…
about 2 years ago - 2 comments
Yes, we know you have taken a million digital photos over the last year, on your fancy shmancy new camera. And we also know the holiday season is almost upon us. Being the geek that you are, you could not just leave your pictures named digital_image_13456.jpg for your slide shows… We just couldn’t have that…
about 2 years ago - 2 comments
Tired of your standard Windows Startup and Shutdown tunes? If you’re like me, you use your Windows-based computer almost every day. The startup and shutdown sounds have just gotten a little boring to be honest. Here are some simple steps to use your favorite voice, music excerpt, or sound for your computer’s start-up and shutdown…
about 2 years ago - 1 comment
This is a really interesting search engine that caught my eye today which I happened to stumble upon and I really like it. I have been using Google or Live search for years now with an occasional visit to Yahoo. There have not been any great innovations in the search engine realm in years. But…
about 2 years ago - 3 comments
James from Virginia wanted to know if it was safe to delete these Thumbs.db and .DS_Store files from his network. Check out our answer and step by step removal tips. Running in a mixed Windows/Mac environment I find it annoying to deal with all the little artifacts the great OS’s leave behind. All of our…
about 2 years ago - 1 comment
By default your windows XP machine shows the Printers and Faxes share along with the Scheduled Tasks folder. You can make use of the scheduled tasks folder like this or use a remote printer share to quickly install a remote printer. Some people like this, most people don’t use it and a few people REALLY…
about 3 years ago
what are advantages/disadvantages of windows desktop search function vs google desktop search function? Which would you recommend for XP? Which for Vista? Assume I should not run both (computer running xp crawled until I stopped running google desktop, but think i may be missing something). Thanks.
about 3 years ago
I just answered you via email Jeff.