A resource I was pointed to a while ago which I have found myself using more and more is the “swiss army knife” site 1dl.us. This site offers the following features/functions:Google search (of course) Your info (what sites “know” about your browser) URL shortener Temp image storage Pastebin (copy on one computer, paste on...

TinEye is one of those things that gives you a, “Whoa.. this is the future” moment. In movies you’ve seen technology before where someone just takes a photo, scans it into a computer and it magically knows where the photo was taken. This is exactly what TinEye does. The best example I can give of this is that someone on Reddit recently asked,...

Apple held their traditional September “Stevenote” this afternoon. In the “something different” department, Apple decided to live-stream the event online. In a suprising move, you had to be tuning in using an Apple device to see the live stream. Windows users were SOL unless they found some kind of geeky workaround. The theory was that...

Some of the themes created for Windows 7 are pretty impressive (I am currently sporting the NASA spacescapes for those interested). However, if you don’t want a slide-show of images which typically come with a theme, rather just a single image in the theme you can easily “extract” it. Once a theme is installed on your system, simply open...

Web browsers have had the ability to resize both fonts and images for some time now. Whenever you want to adjust the size, you can use CTRL+Plus, CTRL-Minus, CTRL-MouseWheelUp, CTRL-MouseWheelDown and so on. Resetting the size to a standard 100% is done by CTRL+0 (zero). The only problem with resizing is that it’s global. For some sites you’d prefer...

This is a full recording of PCMech’s first ever LIVE, INTERACTIVE workshop. This is the first of many such workshops we will be holding inside of our PCMech Premium program. All of our workshops will be either instructional, interviews, or open Q&A where you can talk to us and we’ll discuss your matters of interest and answer your questions. To...

The ATI brand name is no more. Gone. See ya. Buh-bye. It’s been replaced with Radeon and FirePro. This is one of those instances where the company who owns the brand (AMD) thinks changing the name is a good idea. For those of you who build PCs and favor the ATI brand, future purchases will require you to know that the name ATI will soon no longer exist for...

Articles I always enjoy checking out are “best of” listings from established sources as I find these great resources for discovering new web sites and services. So with that, if you are interested in checking out the what PC Magazine thinks the top web sites are, then check out their listing for 2010. Not only are the big name sites you have already...