Pirating software simply means to use software you’re supposed to pay for, but don’t pay for it; it usually involves a "crack" and/or the entering of a serial number, etc. I have no problem admitting that I used to pirate software, but don’t anymore. Why? It’s mainly because the free options I have available to me are pretty...

One of the best things about Google Chrome is the addons. A trip through the Chrome Web Store can yield a vast array of useful, entertaining, or simply quirky applications or extensions. Furthermore, as a long-time gamer, even I’ve gotta admit there are some pretty decent games on there. Of course, the web store can feel kind of overwhelming, too. There...

Pressured to keep "innovating", there are many software-makers that release versions which, to be honest, just plain suck. They sucked so bad in fact that this is why sites like OldVersion and OldApps exist. Here are 3 software titles where the newer version is worse than the older, and why: Skype The makers of Skype ticked off not only Windows users...

Windows, love it, hate it or tolerate it, has definitely changed concerning what’s considered "standard maintenance" for the OS these days. A few things that applied to older Windows do not apply to newer editions, or not as often. Here are a few of them. Reinstall the entire OS once every 6 months It was standard practice to do this with Windows...

Upon hearing news that Firefox 7 (and had memory management in it that actually worked, I downloaded it and decided to give it a go. There’s not really any screenshots I can show because if you’ve seen Fx 5, you’ve seen 6 and the upcoming 7/8, so there’s nothing new in the how-does-it-look department. The way to make Firefox 6 or below...

Small-and-fast utilities are great things, and QJot definitely falls into that category. QJot is a free and very fast document editor for Windows that’s only a single executable file. It has full rich text support so it’s not "just another Notepad". You can bold/italic/underline, colorize words, set justification and do just about...

You’d think that all browsers would be the same concerning how well they render Flash content, but they’re not. Some do better than others. Below is my experience using Flash in modern web browsers, meaning out of the ones used, you’ll see which I found to be the best-performing. #3: Mozilla Firefox 6 Firefox’s biggest problem when it...

Personally, I’ve never much cared for the antivirus/antimalware market. To me, it’s always seemed like something of a protection racket- “Lovely system you’ve got there, it’d be a shame if something were to happen to it.” Thankfully, there are actually several rather excellent antivirus programs available on the ‘net...

If you’ve been working with computers long enough whether new, old or both, you’ve most likely used The Ultimate Boot CD at least a handful of times. UBCD is a free ISO you can download and burn that contains a plethora of disk utilities. Many of the utilities are redundant in the respect that several perform the same function but just in a different...

I just upgraded to Firefox 6 recently. Why haven’t I written an article about it? There’s not really much more mentioning. Fx looks the same, acts the same and there’s nothing I could really point out that would say, "Hey, look at X feature.. totally new/awesome/blah-blah". The only thing that is making news concerning this browser...