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...

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...

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...

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...

The problem with computers is that they’re never 100% reliable. Whether through a virus, degradation of your hardware, or an error in your system, there’s always a chance that any data, no matter where on your system it’s stored, might become corrupted, fragmented, or lost. As such, it’s pretty much vital that you keep a backup of any...

Now, the word “technology” used to mean anything that a person used to make their life easier in some fashion. At one point forks, spoons, and knives were considered to be technology by virtue of that definition. The term has undertaken something of a different meaning in recent days, however.  Instead of cars or forks or knives or even electricity,...

It’s a pretty awesome time to be a gamer. Not only do we have epic releases like Skyrim, Arkham City, and Dark Souls to keep us busy, but more games than ever before have picked up on the latest phenomenon in the gaming industry – the “Free To Play” craze.  Hey, I’m not knocking the whole deal. I think it’s pretty awesome...

It still floors me how many people don’t seem to realize the most fundamental detail of the Internet is that, no matter what you do, no matter how you act, no matter what you say…chances are you’ve got an audience. Say the wrong (or right) thing, and suddenly the world knows who you are.  Post an inflammatory status message or an embarrassing...

A couple weeks ago, I picked up the Complete PC D&D Collection at EB Games. It was a shame, I thought, that I’d never played such greats as Baldur’s Gate or Planescape: Torment, and that had to change. After grabbing the collection- along with the Neverwinter Nights collection- I rushed home to install them all on my PC. Thankfully, most of them...

Before you start reading this article, feast your eyes on this. It’s the results of a fairly recent series of Windows browser speed and power tests carried out by Life Hacker, in which they pitted all of the top browsers (Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer) against one another in order to determine which one runs the fastest and the best. The...

Configuring your router and setting up a network can be a bit of a pain sometimes- particularly if you’re planning on running applications which require specific ports to be opened. Thankfully, there exists a plethora of online tools to make your life easier.  Let’s get started, shall we? Port Forward: We’ve covered Port Forward before, but...

I’ve always been faintly fascinated with the amount of ire folks on the ‘net are capable of displaying. In a lot of ways, it’s almost as if, one some level, they don’t realize that they’re dealing with another human being. It’s as though they somehow disconnect themselves from everybody else, and as such, feel no compunctions...

When it comes to a power comparison between a gaming laptop and a gaming PC, the PC is generally going to come out on top. The problem with laptops is that, since they’re portable and mobile, parts have to be tailor-made for them, and generally have to be a lot more compact than their desktop counterparts. As a result, laptop hardware often tends to be a...

A lot of people don’t realize how glorious and complex computers really are. I mean, I’m sure they know they’re complicated, to a point, after all they’re pretty complicated machines to master, but it never really occurs to them just how complex they really are. Today, we’re going to delve into that complexity a bit- we’re...

Anyone who’s ever written a paper or article at a post-secondary institution knows the drill. Don’t use Wikipedia. It’s nearly an unspoken rule, a social norm. Some professors will dock a letter grade if their students use it. Others will go even further, giving the student a zero – maybe even expelling them from their class. But why such...