As I’ve said before, whether an older operating system (or operating environment in this case) is still usable today all depends on the apps. If the apps work, you can use it. If not, there’s really not much you can do about that. In the video below I test the instant messenger apps AOL Instant Messenger 5.9, Yahoo! Instant Messenger 8.1 and MSN...

Right after I posted How To Speed Up Firefox 13, several asked for a similar video on Google Chrome 19, so here it is. This isn’t as exhaustive as the Firefox video because Chrome doesn’t offer as many customization options (not on a native level, anyway). However, what you’ll see below will speed things...

You have a laptop and want to upgrade the RAM and maybe even swap out the hard drive with an SSD – but you have no idea what type of RAM is in your laptop or what SSDs are compatible with your system. With the Crucial System Scanner tool, it literally doesn’t get any easier. You don’t have to know anything about your system. Just run the...

If you use Google Chrome, you don’t need a Flash-blocking utility because the browser already comes with a feature called “Click To Play” that basically does the same job. What does Click To Play do? Anywhere there is Flash content on a web page, instead of seeing the Flash content you will see a gray box. When you hover over the box with your...

Firefox version 13 was just released, and I decided to give it a try. It’s a good browser (one of the better versions that’s been released), but I have a few standard things I do to speed Firefox up to make it run faster for me. Check out the video below and you’ll see what I recommend for a faster Firefox, none of which requires any additional...

One way to eke out a few more years from your vintage PC (specifically those running Win95 or Win98) as a “usable” computer is to purposely use the K-Meleon web browser and switch the user agent to “fool” web sites into thinking you’re running a mobile browser. Being that most mobile browser are very feature-limited by nature, this...

Believe it or not, you don’t actually have to use DOSBox with the command line interface. While some of you might still prefer to use the MS-DOS commands in order to launch games and run applications- hey, it makes the whole thing feel more authentic- there’s very likely a few of you who just want to play some old school games, and don’t want...

Remember Trillian, the multi-protocol instant messenger? Well, you may want to consider using it again because it happens to be one of the few IM clients that allows both Windows Live and Skype messaging “out-of-the-box” without any additional plugins needed. And why should you care about Windows Live and Skype? A few reasons. First, Windows Live and...

When Microsoft first started using “Live” in attachment to basically everything they were doing, this basically did nothing but confuse the crap out of people – and the fact that the name just didn’t stick. Microsoft has decided to drop “Live” from its branding across the board. For you Hotmail users out there, you’ll...

Just a quick post for you guys today. We’re going to look at how to set up network sharing in Windows 7- it’s a pretty simple process, once you’ve got it figured out, but getting everything set up can sometimes be a headache, just the same. So, let’s say you want to share files between two computers on a network- maybe copy a few over...