At this point, those of you who don’t have a great deal of technical knowledge are probably wondering “What exactly is a non-Unicode Application, and why would I want to run it?” A Non-Unicode application is, essentially, any program that’s not written in the default language of the Windows platform. That’s a horrifically simplified...

Here’s the scenario: you buy yourself a shiny new computer for work/school/personal use (nothing illicit, I hope), and after unboxing it and turning it on you realize it’s missing a plethora of stuff you actually kinda need. Maybe it shipped without Microsoft Office (I’ve seen a few systems that, for one reason or another, don’t actually...

Over the last couple of weeks, PCMech has had a new sponsor: Reimage. We’re happy to be working with Reimage – especially because this software is truly unique and actually does what it says it will do.Here’s what Reimage will do for you… The scan (which you can do for free) gives the user an evaluation of the current state of...

Making the rounds across the blogs is the fact the decade-old Microsoft Windows XP operating system saw a record decline is usage for Dec 2011. You can hem and haw all day about percentage and points and so on, but the fact is that people are dropping the XP OS in droves; these users are either upgrading to Windows 7, outright replacing their old computer with...

The 64-bit Windows desktop environment is still going through a maturation process because most of the apps we use are 32-bit only. However, some of you like the idea of running a 64-bit browser (namely Internet Explorer 9), and for that to work properly with most content on the internet, you need 64-bit Flash and 64-bit Java. Yes, there are two separate IE...

Nearly all web pages today use styled text via means of what’s known as Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS for short. However, one portion of web design that’s largely ignored is reading anything in teletype/monospaced text. Web forms, programming code, block-quoting in forums and a whole bunch of other stuff use a teletype font often. Since most...

Sizer is a freeware app that allows you to quickly resize application windows to predefined sizes in just two clicks (once configured). For those of you with larger displays, you will find this to be a very useful tool for the resizing of browser, image editor, word processor, spreadsheet windows and a whole lot more. See video below to see how it works. And yes...

I try.. and I mean really try to like Firefox these days, but wow is it tough to do so. As any long-time Firefox user knows, the browser has been getting progressively (regressively?) slower per each release. Yes, it’s true that with every new release of Fx comes some new whiz-bang feature, but unfortunately the majority of the time it’s something...

During the holiday season the VLC media player automatically switches it’s standard orange cone icon to one with a Santa cap on top of it. You can see this in the top-left and main play area of the player:It also shows up in the taskbar area:This has been around for a while but some of you haven’t seen it yet, so if you’re using the VLC...

Google basically proved to everyone that background auto-updates work concerning their web browser, Chrome. Initially, people were very against this because they didn’t want "stuff happening in the background they didn’t know about", but then quickly realized that background updating of the browser is convenient, not intrusive and certainly...