If so, check out the DOS Games Archive. Personally, I am not a gamer, but back in the days of DOS I played quite a few games. In my opinion, they were better then than they are now, simply because the focus was the storyline and gameplay rather than the graphics and cut-scenes which seem (to me at least) to be more prevalent today. Unfortunately only some of the...

Everyone renames files. Whether it is Word documents or a library of pictures, eventually you have to rename a large number of files at once. Using the standard Windows renaming vehicle can be extremely time consuming when you have more than a few files, so instead try Lupas Rename. Lupas Rename is a free utility which features tons of tools to help you rename,...

Next month the Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds is coming. It’s a 17-inch screened, Intel Core 2 Quad’ed, 980GB hard drive’d beast. But what makes it worth $3,600? See that thing sticking out from the right? You guessed it, that’s another screen. You may asking yourself “Is that a dual-screen laptop?” You are correct. Also note the...

Yes, I’m talking about the VHS videocassette format. We all thought it was dead years ago but it turns there was still a major supplier in Palm Harbor Florida (very close to where PCMech is based). However that supplier shipped the last of its stock very recently. So now yes, ding-dong the witch is dead, VHS is ka-put. For real this time. Some VHS...

A while ago, I wrote about how to backup your Firefox bookmarks and that occassionally doing so was prudent in the event of a disaster. Of course, the problem with that method is that it is a manual process you have to remember to do. The best method is to have your bookmarks backed up automatically and the appropriately named add-on, Bookmark Backup, does just...

When someone posts on Twitter, the popular microblogging service, they are said to be "tweeting". Possibly the best tweet to date is one that came across that said, I wasbjust in a plane crash!Typo aside, yes, that really happened. I mean, seriously, how can you top that. Not possible. The rest of the story is nothing short of pure awesome. Internets...

If you’re like most computer users, you’re using an LCD monitor as your primary computer display. And you’ve probably adjusted your monitor settings as best you could, but it still doesn’t “look right”. Some hues appear too blue while others appear too red, or maybe the black looks like a dark gray at best. I will say up front...

Not too long ago, I wrote about the open source take on the greatest game of all time, FreeCiv. Today, I’ll point you to another one with incredible depth: The Battle for Wesnoth. The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Build up a great army, gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans. In later games, recall...

From TG Daily: The final shipment date remains a moving target as Microsoft granted system builders a “flexible” delivery date of Windows XP licenses to customers beyond the official phase-out deadline of January 31, 2009. PC vendors still have to purchase licenses before that date, but can now choose to take delivery of those licenses through May 30, 2009....

I am a Gmail fan. Their filters are awesome and I find that the feature set is ideal for managing my online business. One of the things that I recently did was set up an email address which, when used by a reader, would result in an automatic email reply. I did this using the new “canned response” feature in the Gmail Labs. The canned response function...

There are those who need big honkin’ hard drives and those who don’t. Typically, those that need the big-big drives do one or more of the following:Video editing. Camcorder, DV, DVR, Tivo, DVD ripping, etc. Multitrack audio editing. The raw WAV files are quite large. Gaming. Many newer games require a significant amount of space. Photography....

Yesterday I posted a tip for people looking to get into programming, so today I am going to point .Net developers to a tool I have found incredibly useful: Exception Reporter. ExceptionReporter is a .NET component (C#) that adds error reporting capability to .NET WinForms applications by displaying detailed information about an Exception (message, sysinfo,...

If you are looking to get started with programming, you will probably hear many different language suggestions as which one is the ‘best’ one to start with. While most people will probably say Java, I believe Visual Basic .Net is the better alternative. Regardless of which tool you start with, a full programming language can be intimidating because...

Just to change things up for the sake of change, why not change your new mail notification sound? Odds are you are pretty tired of the standard sound, so make a change. You can find numerous pages on the web (this one for example) which contain sounds ideal for new message notifications. Personally, I like to go with the famous Law & Order ‘two...

As we come to the end of another year (and come to grips with how fast the last one went by), it is that time of year where talking heads and bloggers come out of the woodwork with their 2009 predictions. But, guess what? They’re all going to be wrong. We simply don’t know, ok? So, what I’m going to do is, BRIEFLY, throw out my own thoughts on what we...

I have been a long-time user of Flickr and it is the online home for my photography (the ones I upload, anyway). Both Rich and I sprung a little coin for the Flickr Pro account. Yes, they’re that good. If you use Flickr, though, there is an easter egg that you can use to show off your holiday charm. Here’s how to do it:Navigate to any of your photos....

Very recently, Yahoo! announced it would limit some (keyword there) of its data retention to a sparse (and unheard of) 90 days. Privacy advocates have been screaming loudly for a very long time that web companies – particularly search engines – hold on to data that can personally identify an individual for far too long. The fact Yahoo has stepped up...

While it’s true that other video-sharing sites (like Vimeo’s HD channel) have had large HD-quality video for a while now, YouTube has finally jumped into the fray with its own HD. And to be honest it looks really good. The only drawback is that it’s absolutely required that you have a reasonably fast PC with a decent video card, else you get...

Perhaps the most well known keyboard shortcuts in the computer universe are the commands to copy (Ctrl+C) and paste (Ctrl+V). An average computer user probably utilizes these shortcuts dozens of times a day without even thinking. In fact, this shortcut is so ubiquitous that it most likely works in places you haven’t tried. For example, the other day I...

We continue laying out your Internet strategy. In this video, I am going to talk about social media. In the last video, I talked about using a blog. But, using social media sites is incredibly important for building up word of what you’re trying to do on the Internet. If you think these sites are just about teenagers and bands, you’ve got to watch...