Once your printer is in proper working order (see the article prior to this one), now you can do some cool stuff with it. Instead of the plain old boring documents you normally print, you can take any image and “rasterbate” it. What does “rasterbate” mean? Tiled printing. It’s the process where you take one photo and print it across...

Printer paper transport issues are a pain to troubleshoot because there are any number of things that can cause an inkjet printer not to feed paper correctly. More often than not when you start having transport issues, it’s the rollers, and there are a few tool-free things you can try to get rollers working again. Now before continuing, a few points: 1....

Gaming is serious business. No, really, it is- games nowadays are a multi-billion dollar, blockbuster industry, and there’s plenty of folks- particularly in Massively Multiplayer Online Games- that are willing to shell out enormous sums of money for the sake of getting ahead of their peers. It’s like any highly competitive world or hobby-...

Some USB keys have a physical write-protect switch on it, but many don’t. It is possible to make your USB 2.0 “write-protected” simply by modifying the file-write permissions on it. Fortunately this can be done without the need to hack the registry or use any apps. Check out the video below to see how it’s done (it’s really...

SD and microSD are the standard storage mediums in many devices today. Three examples are digital cameras, standalone GPS devices (like Garmin nüvi models) and smartphones. No matter what you mount your SD/microSD card into, when connected to a PC it will show up as a drive letter no matter what the originating device is when connected via USB cable. Where...

So, you’ve finally gotten your server up and running, have you? You’ve got a website, you’ve worked out all the gory details surrounding bandwidth and firewalls, you’ve managed to force your way through the unwieldy, arcane labyrinth of NAT, and now…you’re finally ready to open your doors to the world. Wait, no you...

Wireless N was touted to be the Next Big Thing in Wi-Fi when first introduced, and, well.. it really hasn’t been. In order to make the most out of Wireless N, every device must be N-capable and be able to connect at the 5GHz level instead of the older 2.4GHz. If that’s not possible, N connectivity in many instances won’t serve you any...

GPS wristwatches do exist, albeit not that many of them. Watches of this type are primarily designed for runners as almost every single watch that has GPS capability usually also has a heart monitor and other things runners would be interested in. But what if you’re not a runner? Would you still find use out of a GPS wristwatch? Well, that depends if you...

So, you’re looking to set up a Minecraft server, but you aren’t really sure where to start. All you know is that the basic platform isn’t enough for you. The standard server tools just aren’t customizable enough for your tastes. You want a grand, glorious world that you can easily modify at will. You want towns, and cities, and nations....

For those of you into the itty-bitty Linux distros, SliTaz is definitely worth checking out as it’s only 35MB in size. It’s rare that a Linux flavor comes along this good at a size so small. I checked it out and it looks really good (and functions well) for what it is. SliTaz is designed to run in RAM and then store everything to a USB key. Once you...

When it comes to using a scheduler (which some call “minder apps” or “calendar apps” or “task scheduler apps”), you have lots of choices. Your cell phone – even if not a smartphone – most likely has a calendar app with simple appointment setting functions. All major webmail providers have a calendar app with the...

Few inventions since the wheel have had such a marked impact on our lifestyle. Today, virtually everything is digitized, and in the western world, it’s an incredibly rare thing to come across anyone who’s never used a computer at least once in their lifetime. Indeed, many of us tend to use our PCs on a daily basis. Many of us require a computer for...

There are times when Windows 7 will get “confused” when it comes to sound devices, and if the OS gets “confused” enough, the Sound portion of the Control Panel (whether accessed by right-clicking the icon in the taskbar or via the Control Panel directly) absolutely will not launch. You’ll try to launch it over and over again, and...

If you can believe it, Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger, formerly Windows Messenger) is 12 years old; it had its initial launch on 12 July 1999. Amazingly, really old versions of the Messenger app still work with the service to this day. The versions seen in the video below are 4.7 and 5.0. Note to XP users: You can use MSN Messenger 4.7 which is...

The enterprise sector’s been experiencing something of a crisis, of late. See, more and more employees have been rejecting the notion of using company-provided devices, and just opting to work on their own smartphones and tablets. And that’s great! More power to them! Trouble is…this is wreaking havoc with data security, as many of these same...

I’m going to say up front that this app is not for everyone because it requires a very specific mindset to use it. ReminderFox is an app for use in the Mozilla Firefox web browser or Mozilla Thunderbird email client; it can best be classified as the “happy medium” between a full calendaring app and a to-do app. What ReminderFox does is make it...

I finally made the jump and bought a Crucial 256GB SSD, model CT256M4SSD2 for my Win7 Home Premium 64-bit equipped laptop. Being it’s most likely true you’ll be switching to SSD instead of buying a PC or laptop with SSD built-in, describing my experience with it should help a bunch of you who are riding the fence on whether to get one or...

In today’s digital age, it’s inevitable that someone’s eventually going to have to replace old tech with new, just as it’s inevitable that, eventually, they’re going to need to figure out what to do with that old tech. In lieu of simply throwing in the trash, why not think about recycling it? There’s a number of ways to...

The recent reinstallation of the Windows 7 operating system on my laptop involved a ton of updates, several of which were updates with .NET in the title. Here’s an example of a few of them:On reboot after installing anything with .NET in the title, Windows will crawl along very slowly as if it’s doing something very CPU-intensive in the background....

I made the the plunge and upgraded my laptop’s 500GB HDD to a 256GB SSD. In particular, this one. And of course the price dropped 25 dollars the week after I bought it. Hate it when that happens. And yes, I’ll be writing about my experience with using SSD soon. On a laptop you typically can’t run multiple internal hard drives. Not in the...