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 on that thing is just a touch bigger than your...

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 to use. Google Earth, being a true local...

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 you can download and install it...

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 all GIFs will stop. The only other browser that...

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 test I used was to load some...

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 searches on all the...

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 steps to take to clear everything out. 1. For anything that...

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...

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 is probably left behind in other brands as well. This is what...

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 you’ve already tried...

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 selling at fire sale prices just to get rid of...

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 it gets creepy. If I saw this thing coming at me and...

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 find...

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 will admit before...

RSS is something that’s been around for years (well over 10), works exactly like it should and easily keeps you up to date on your favorite site’s content (including this one). The web in general tried and pretty much ultimately failed to get all of us to “share” our news via social site to keep us abreast of the latest/greatest info....

A couple Tuesdays back, I had an important meeting I had to attend. There’s a big charity event that I’m helping to run coming up in the very near future, and we needed to go before a committee to plead our case. We needed to show to them that it was worth granting us the funding to run things. In order to help ourselves along, I brought with me a...

I had done up a written article about this, but it’s better to show it in video to get a better idea of how to go about use basic messaging from SMS to email and vice versa. Any cell phone can send a text message to an email address, however the *reply* has to be done in a specific way. The video below shows you how to do that and the tools you need to get...

While a lot of us would like to own an iPad, it can be hard to justify the expenditure. You’ve got an iPod, a Mac and a MacBook – just how do you justify adding a new device to your Apple collection when it doesn’t really fill its own essential niche? One way is to scrap the rest of them and let the iPad fulfill all your computing needs – but is that...

KernelEx is freely available on SourceForge and allows you to run apps that require Windows XP to work in Windows 98. Note that this only works for some apps, as you’ll see in the video below. For those of you running older Win98 computer boxes (most likely for retro MS-DOS gaming), you can now eke out a few more good usable years from the aging Win98...