I’ve covered AutoHotKey before, but didn’t cover how to automate mouse movements until now. In the video below I show how that’s done using an older release of the software (which is still available); I use the older release because it comes bundled with AutoScriptWriter II. That software, while a bit on the ugly side, does make for creating...

Mozilla very recently released (as in official, not beta) version 8 of the popular Firefox browser. On The Mozilla Blog there’s a whole write-up about all the changes and whatnot. Out of the changes listed, this was the only one that really caught my attention: Firefox lets you load tabs on demand, making it much faster to restore windows with many tabs....

Evidently some people consider it a really big deal that IE has fallen below 50% market share. And yeah, I guess it is sort of a big deal given that IE has been above that mark for so long. Based on the comments received on articles I’ve posted here in the past about IE, many of you said goodbye to the IE browser long ago – measured in years for some...

It’s a fact of life that the more you use your PC the more bloated and inefficient it becomes until eventually it gets to the point where you just can’t put up with it any longer. Sure there are lots of things you can do to hold back the eventual slowing up and general sluggishness of your trusty PC. Obviously you should have a good anti-virus program...

In the computing world, an aliased font means "blocky" and/or "non-smoothed"; there are some people to this day who prefer reading web pages with fonts rendered in this fashion. A quick example: Anti-aliased ("smoothed") Aliased ("blocky") Windows and Linux do offer the ability to turn off anti-aliasing for all...

When using the Lubuntu Linux distribution, the one thought I have more than any other is, "If something exactly like this was available back in 2001, the landscape of desktop computing would have been a whole lot different." While Linux fans make take great offense to what I’m about to say, I’m saying it anyway. Lubuntu’s best feature...

If you check out the www.lubuntu.net web site, the first thing you’ll notice is that it’s drastically changed to look like www.ubuntu.com. Well, there’s a reason for that as Lubuntu 11.10 is the project’s first release as an official Ubuntu derivative. "So? What difference does that make?" Plenty, as it means the Ubuntu team...

While it’s true a whole bunch of you build your own PCs, it’s also true there are many out there with Dell PCs. Something Dell does not do (or at least not to the best of my knowledge) is ship their PCs with driver discs in case you have to reinstall Windows. Fortunately it’s easy to create your own either on CD/DVD or USB stick. Step 1. Find...

As most of you are aware, Skype is now owned by Microsoft, who has already put up a web page promoting the product: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/ You can also see Microsoft branding on the www.skype.com web site. There has been wild speculation about what Microsoft will do with Windows Live Messenger now that it has Skype. Will Windows Live users be...

Some utility programs out there are must-have, like Sizer. For the mouse, there aren’t many really great utilities other than from-OEM software like IntelliPoint for Microsoft mice. There is, however, a mouse utility program that many of you would consider a godsend, WizMouse. What WizMouse does is very simple in that it allows you to use your scroll...