Want to put a Control Panel icon in Windows 7 on your desktop in less than 5 seconds? All it takes is three clicks. Watch the video below to see how it’s...

Everyone loves a bit of retro gaming every now and then, right? Having grown up in the 90s, the old-school PC games of the era are always going to hold a special place in my heart, and they’re always going to be something I enjoy playing. Unfortunately, for nostalgia buffs, technology’s come a very,very long way since the days of the Microsoft Disc...

I’m going to present a scenario here that’s common to many computer owners. You have a laptop. It’s a good laptop and you don’t want to get rid of it. It runs fine but you’ve decided to switch out the primary hard drive drive with SSD, so you have to reinstall Windows. However, there’s a problem. You don’t have a Windows...

Automatic updates are pretty irritating, aren’t they? In Windows’ case, it doesn’t matter what you happen to be doing at the time- what programs you’re running, what tasks you’re trying to accomplish- if an update is scheduled, it’s gonna happen. And if it doesn’t happen, it’ll pester you repeatedly until it...

Notepad++, arguably the best replacement text editor for Windows there is (and free), is something you will probably want to associate all your TXT file extensions with once you start using it because it is that good. Fortunately, Notepad++ has this feature built-in and all you have to do is enable it. See video below for...

Recently I decided to give the SkyDrive App a go. Is it better than Dropbox? Before I tell you that answer, I’ll tell you what makes SkyDrive better than Dropbox up front: 7GB of storage, with a free upgrade to 25GB:More free storage is good and all that, but how does the app compare to Dropbox? Firstly, it has a nice icon that sits neatly in the tray...

Every version of Disk Defragmenter that’s ever been shipped with Windows has been awful. Not “sort of” awful, just awful. Yes, they work, but not very well. Defraggler on the other hand works great, is free and is a good solid replacement for the wonky Windows Disk Defragmenter. There are some things you can do to speed up the defrag times so...

In the productivity department, having a task organizer is a good idea because it helps you keep track of all your stuff. On the mobile side of things, even the simplest featurephone has a “memo” feature that can be used for very basic task management. On advanced smartphones, I don’t know of any that doesn’t have a task management app, and you also...

If you have a laptop that’s not over 3 years old, you may have a “LINE IN” port for sound input and didn’t even know it. Certain laptop manufacturers do actually include a 2-channel (meaning stereo) port MIC port next to the output port; this allows you to plug in things like iPods and other audio devices over a traditional 3.5mm stereo...

"Media" in this context refers to video and audio format, such as MP4, AVI, 3GP and so on. My mainstay format conversion utility was WinFF, which is essentially nothing more than a graphical front-end for FFMPEG. Whenever you want to convert anything to anything no matter if you’re running Windows, Mac or Linux, FFMPEG is more or less...