For those of you who haven’t heard yet…there are many people who think Windows 8 will be bad for the gaming industry. Very bad. Gabe Newell (the powerful, rotund personality behind Steam, the world’s largest digital video game distribution platform), one of the designers of Starcraft (pretty much the most popular real time strategy game [...]
Today, we’re going to take a look at the various components of a USB memory stick, and how they work together to store and transmit information. This one’s going to be brief, compared to some of the other entries in the series – there’s not as much to USB sticks as there is to, say, [...]
So…your browser’s been unnaturally slow lately. Where once it’d blast you through content like a jet-pack wearing ape on PCP, now it’s more like a stoned elephant. What’s the deal? What could be causing your browser to be slowing down so much? Why has browsing the Internet become such a chore? More importantly, what can [...]
Let’s face it – nobody’s perfect, not even the new iOS 6 mobile operating system from Apple that was launched on September 21, 2012. Although there’s a lot to love about this new iOS, it also comes with some flaws. Some of these flaws are well known by now, while there are some others that [...]
Collaboration technologies are at the very core of any modern business. These services allow for a faster and easier passing of information, let you upload data in a matter of seconds, work on documents, share your knowledge and leave comments. Most of the people who use collaboration tools admit its value. However many businesses still [...]
We all know what bloatware and crapware are, even if we’re not fully aware of it. They’re the programs we love to hate- the digital garbage packed on to pre-built PCs that their users neither want nor need. Usually, they accomplish nothing, aside from slowing down your system to a crawl. In the worst cases, [...]
Every new release of Microsoft office has had its irritating little quirks, and 2010 is no exception. This time around, the issue lies in Word, in the default template. See, as far as I know, most people need their word documents to be formatted in one of two ways, at their core – they need [...]
The private browsing feature (available in all major web browsers) is something most people don’t use simply for the reason it can prove to be inconvenient. For the most part, people use the private browsing feature so the browser doesn’t retain any cookies. Well, you don’t need to use private browsing to get that feature [...]
There are some people who really like smooth scrolling when using a web browser on the desktop. In fact, the latest Firefox 16 installs with it enabled by default and has since version 15. Is smooth scrolling any good? I don’t define smooth scrolling as outright “good” or “bad”, because it all comes down to [...]
A relatively unknown feature of CCleaner that most people aren’t aware of is the ability to right-click on any section or group inside the application to clean parts of the Windows OS individually instead of all at once. Sometimes when running the CCleaner software you just want to clean specific parts instead of the entire [...]
Game Selection: Winner: Steam While it’s certainly something of an unfair comparison at this point (after all, Origin’s still very much the new kid on the block as far as digital distribution’s concerned), it’s still something a lot of people are judging Origin on. while Steam has a massive library comprised of thousand upon thousands of [...]
Skype, arguably one of the most-used instant messaging services these days, has recently had a rash of profile pic spam messages start appearing. The sad part? Some people are stupid enough to actually click those spam links and get infected with malware. Yes, it’s the same “run this EXE and see my pic” crapola you [...]
You’d think that, with all the advances we’ve been making in the world of computing, with all the new manufacturing techniques and cost-cutting methods being employed by OEMs, people would be packing increasingly powerful hardware into their systems, right? After all, reduced costs means that those who plan to shell out for a gaming PC [...]
I have four web browsers installed on my computer (mainly for writing articles here when I need to test out stuff), that being Internet Explorer 9, Opera 12.02, Firefox 15.0.1 and Chrome 22. My favorite home page is by far the one used in Opera, the “Speed Dial” feature. Now while true you can use [...]
Following up to my last article about crapware, McAfee, sorry to say is one that digs really, really deep into the Windows OS and is almost impossible to get out unless you have the McAfee Consumer Product Removal Tool. Before I explain what MCPR.exe does, I’ll give you a simple example of how difficult it [...]
