Here’s a bit of a pickle for you. You’ve got some little, 15 inch laptop on which you want to game, but the screen kinda hurts your eyes a bit. We’ve all been there, right? Now, let’s take things a little further and assume you’ve also got an old iMac sitting around. Now, the screen [...]
While there have been many improvement in Google Maps and Bing Maps over the years, there’s still nothing that beats Google Earth as far as what you can do with it. Some of the features you’ll see below are in Google/Bing Maps, but done done in a way where the functions are separated and/or cumbersome [...]
The term “hoarding” is generally considered to be a bad thing, but when it comes to the software you love that you can’t live without, I cannot stress this enough: SAVE THOSE INSTALLERS. This is especially true for Windows XP users. The software you love right now will not be on the internet forever where [...]
Nowadays, games are bigger and better than they’ve ever been. We’ve got hyper-realistic graphics, top-notch voice actors, sweeping, operatic musical scores and epic plots that span galaxies, worlds, and universes. The sky’s the limit- gaming’s never been better. Right? If all that is true, why do so many people seem to be feeling such a [...]
For some of you, this will probably make your whole week knowing this feature exists in Firefox and has more or less ever since the browser came into existence. Here’s an animated GIF of an ant: Press ESC and the animation plus any other animated GIFs will stop animating. Flash will continue to animate, but [...]
Firefox 15 has just been released, and it’s noted on this Mozilla blog that Fx 15 “prevents most memory leaks” caused by add-ons. I wasn’t so much interested in that, but rather if Fx actually releases memory properly when a tab is closed. From my cursory examination of the browser, yes it does. FINALLY. The [...]
I’ll be frank with you guys: the job market sucks. Finding decent, paying work is a herculean undertaking these days, even if you’ve got a degree that’s supposed to guarantee you a cushy spot. There’s a good chance that those of you who are currently unemployed (or underemployed, as it were) have been doing daily [...]
Many people are under the delusion that a factory reset of a smartphone device will clear all the user data in it. Not usually. In most devices there are remnants of user data left behind which could easily be used for identity theft purposes. So before you sell off that smartphone device, here are the [...]
Without Shockwave Flash, internet surfing would be a dull experience. Although it runs fine in other browsers, Adobe’s Shockwave application has not been in perfect harmony with Google Chrome. It shakes up Chrome by crashing frequently and disrupting any multimedia content streaming at the moment. Unlike other browsers Google Chrome includes an integrated version of [...]
System resets of GPS devices I know for a fact do not clear the data in the unit as I’ve owned enough Garmin GPS devices to figure that out. What I’m going to tell you below specifically applies to Garmin devices, although it can be applied to any GPS device as the data I’ll mention [...]
So, you’ve got yourself a new game, but it doesn’t quite appear to be working as intended. For whatever reason, your system’s unable to play it properly. It lags. There’s graphical tearing. It locks up at random, or doesn’t start up at all. Naturally, this is a problem you want to fix- and fast. Assuming [...]
Sony has definitely seen better days. The company posted a fiscal loss of 5.8 billion (yes, billion with a big fat B) in 2011, and the shucking of the optical drive subsidiary is part of their restructuring plan. For those shopping around for optical drives, you may in the near future see Sony-branded optical drives [...]
You’re going to find this both cute and probably slightly disturbing at the same time: So what we have here is yet another demo of a walking robot, this one ant-like with its six legs (if it were spider-like it would have eight). When you start to see this thing walking, then running, that’s when [...]
Have you ever wondered how your computer keyboard functions? It’s pretty likely most folks haven’t really given that a lot of thought. After all, the keyboard is one of the most basic parts of our computing experience- and compared to some other, more complicated segments of the system, it’s not really as complex, right? Let’s [...]
What I’m talking about here isn’t the physical desk your computer sits on but rather the files and shortcuts on your computer operating environment’s desktop. It is easy (almost too easy) to plop things on the desktop and simply not care about it. However over time it can turn into an organizational nightmare. Now I [...]
