WinFF is a graphical front-end for FFMPEG. While true you could use HandBrake to compress video files, using WinFF is better when you want more options and more control. Also remember that WinFF contrary to its name is not Windows-only as it also will run in Ubuntu, Debian and several other Linux distros. Check out the video below to see how it works;...

I received an email from the developer of the Ultrafunk Popcorn email client yesterday:Hi Rich, I accidentally stumbled upon your posts about the Popcorn mail client on PCMech.com, and although I have no idea if you have any interest in it anymore, I thought you might like to know that after 3 long years, it has finally been updated quite a bit to work much...

Normally, I always recommend UNetbootin whenever you want to write a bootable ISO image of a Linux distribution to a USB stick. Whether you use UNetbootin’s internal menus to do it or download an ISO elsewhere and use UNetbootin to write the image, it works… …most of the time. There are some instances where it will do that “work yet not...

In the Linux desktop graphical environment, there are many desktop session types, but the two that are most known are KDE and GNOME. This article is about GNOME. For a good long time GNOME was really good. Then version 3 came along and, well, it’s not-so good as it seems to be completely hit-or-miss whether it will work on your PC or not regardless of how...

There are more than a few people out there that absolutely hate the 2011 version of Windows Live Essentials and wish they could go back to the 2009 version. Well, you can – but it’s a bit of a commitment. You can’t run both 2009 and 2011 versions of the Windows Live Essentials suite at the same time, so you have to commit to running only the...

The biggest plus about gaming on the PC isn’t the LAN capabilities, nor is it the interface or the power of a souped-up gaming rig. Without a doubt, the biggest plus is the modding community. Lately, a lot of developers (Bethesda in particular) have been providing fans with the means to create new expansions and addons for their games. Naturally the lack...

The answer to the question posed in the title of this article is yes, but only under a certain condition. It is safe to run your computer with no antivirus if the computer never connects to the internet at any time. Yes, that sounds ridiculous, but I have a point to make with this. Most people are under the belief that if you’re not running Windows and...

Today, we’re going to take a look at a few terms that are fairly often applied to software and what each term means. Vaporware: Vaporware basically describes an application that simply…isn’t. It’s software that’s neither developed nor officially cancelled and exists in a strange sort of limbo between real and nonexistent. This term...

I’ll answer this question up front – no, it doesn’t. Aside from what I talk about in the video above, there’s this strange belief that any computer that’s old is worthless, and that those who use them must be equally worthless. Obviously, that’s not true. Those who know how to wield older computers and operating systems...

Many people don’t bother buying games for computers these days on the assumption their computer isn’t fast enough – even if the computer is brand new. Are they right? Most of the time, yes they are. One could quickly come to the conclusion of, “I’ll just run older games then!” That’s not always an option because of...