Most of you are probably familiar with the "Guest" account in Windows (which has been around for a long time), but Ubuntu 11.04 makes using a guest account so easy it’s awesome. All that’s required on the Ubuntu desktop to quick-change to a guest account is to simply click the power icon at top right, and switch. That’s it. Yeah, I...

So, let’s say you’ve been hearing a lot about Google’s new Chrome OS. Problem is, you don’t particularly want to buy a Chromebook quite yet. You’d rather give the OS a test run, see how it runs- take a look at how it functions. Thankfully, you’re in luck. There’s a fellow named Liam Mcullough-goes by the nickname...

Wimamp is a great audio application. There are many people (for instance the author of this post) who seem to be addicted to it. I especially like the earlier versions that didn’t have all the fluff of today’s multimedia apps but, unlike them, could play a clear sound. I have been living under Linux for many years and I certainly don’t miss...

Pirating software simply means to use software you’re supposed to pay for, but don’t pay for it; it usually involves a "crack" and/or the entering of a serial number, etc. I have no problem admitting that I used to pirate software, but don’t anymore. Why? It’s mainly because the free options I have available to me are pretty...

One of the best things about Google Chrome is the addons. A trip through the Chrome Web Store can yield a vast array of useful, entertaining, or simply quirky applications or extensions. Furthermore, as a long-time gamer, even I’ve gotta admit there are some pretty decent games on there. Of course, the web store can feel kind of overwhelming, too. There...

Pressured to keep "innovating", there are many software-makers that release versions which, to be honest, just plain suck. They sucked so bad in fact that this is why sites like OldVersion and OldApps exist. Here are 3 software titles where the newer version is worse than the older, and why: Skype The makers of Skype ticked off not only Windows users...

Windows, love it, hate it or tolerate it, has definitely changed concerning what’s considered "standard maintenance" for the OS these days. A few things that applied to older Windows do not apply to newer editions, or not as often. Here are a few of them. Reinstall the entire OS once every 6 months It was standard practice to do this with Windows...

Upon hearing news that Firefox 7 (and had memory management in it that actually worked, I downloaded it and decided to give it a go. There’s not really any screenshots I can show because if you’ve seen Fx 5, you’ve seen 6 and the upcoming 7/8, so there’s nothing new in the how-does-it-look department. The way to make Firefox 6 or below...

Small-and-fast utilities are great things, and QJot definitely falls into that category. QJot is a free and very fast document editor for Windows that’s only a single executable file. It has full rich text support so it’s not "just another Notepad". You can bold/italic/underline, colorize words, set justification and do just about...

You’d think that all browsers would be the same concerning how well they render Flash content, but they’re not. Some do better than others. Below is my experience using Flash in modern web browsers, meaning out of the ones used, you’ll see which I found to be the best-performing. #3: Mozilla Firefox 6 Firefox’s biggest problem when it...