System resets of GPS devices I know for a fact do not clear the data in the unit as I’ve owned enough Garmin GPS devices to figure that out. What I’m going to tell you below specifically applies to Garmin devices, although it can be applied to any GPS device as the data I’ll mention [...]
What I’m talking about here isn’t the physical desk your computer sits on but rather the files and shortcuts on your computer operating environment’s desktop. It is easy (almost too easy) to plop things on the desktop and simply not care about it. However over time it can turn into an organizational nightmare. Now I [...]
RSS is something that’s been around for years (well over 10), works exactly like it should and easily keeps you up to date on your favorite site’s content (including this one). The web in general tried and pretty much ultimately failed to get all of us to “share” our news via social site to keep [...]
KernelEx is freely available on SourceForge and allows you to run apps that require Windows XP to work in Windows 98. Note that this only works for some apps, as you’ll see in the video below. For those of you running older Win98 computer boxes (most likely for retro MS-DOS gaming), you can now eke [...]
A situation that’s happened to all of us at one point or another: You’re typing up something inside a web browser. Could be Facebook. Could be email. Could be a blog editor. Whatever. Then it happens. *Poof*, everything you typed is gone. It happens instantly and there’s absolutely no way to get your text back. [...]
This is a quick tip for anyone that encounters annoying pausing or freezing when attempting to empty the Windows Recycle Bin. The #1 reason why the Recycle Bin pauses when going to empty it is probably because you have an external hard drive connected to your computer. When the external drive isn’t in use (even [...]
(continued from part 1) A quick about how POP mail works Post Office Protocol mail works in such a way where in the inbox and only the inbox is downloaded by a mail client such as Thunderbird. In other words, anything not in the inbox is not downloaded. Move everything in webmail from “Incoming OLD” [...]
In the way I personally do email, I perform an annual cleanup. When January rolls around, I download all my email, store it locally using a mail client, then back it up to media. After that I delete everything that’s stored in the web account. I pretty much have to do this because if I [...]
A couple weeks ago, I picked up the Complete PC D&D Collection at EB Games. It was a shame, I thought, that I’d never played such greats as Baldur’s Gate or Planescape: Torment, and that had to change. After grabbing the collection- along with the Neverwinter Nights collection- I rushed home to install them all on [...]
There really is no good reason for an IRC client to be bulky. It should be very small, lightweight and run very fast. While there are a few good IRC clients for Windows, my personal pick is XChat 2 for Windows, a free Windows version of the popular XChat software. For those of you who [...]
In the late 2000s, Microsoft introduced its replacement to Outlook Express 6, Windows Live Mail (at the time known as Windows Live Mail Desktop). This was barely more than OE6 with a different theme, as the menus were all virtually identical. The only real major difference is that WLMail stores mail as separate EML files [...]
In the way software is developed these days, a huge effort is being put into the mobile platforms while the desktop side doesn’t have nearly as much innovation as it used to. The reason? Money. A software developer has much more opportunity to make money developing crappy two-dollar apps compared to selling desktop apps. A [...]
In the video below I’m playing Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith to show that when it comes to FPS (first-person-shooter games), older titles from the late 1990s and early 2000s really did a much better job when it comes to maps. A very common complaint these days with FPS games is that [...]
I think it can be said without a shadow of a doubt that Counter-Strike defined what an online FPS (first-person shooter) is supposed to be. While true there were several other FPSes out there, CS was the one that took to the internet by storm. It was originally released in 1999 as a Half-Life modification, [...]
Android devices need security just as much as personal computers. Most people who are tech-savvy know that having an anti-virus program on their desktop computer is imperative, but surprisingly few people consider the same kind of protection for their phones as carefully. As an industry-leading antivirus and security software company, avast! has been in the [...]
