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 my PC. Thankfully, most of them...

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 bounce between Windows and Linux environments, you probably already use XChat...

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 rather than proprietary DBX files, and...

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 rather strange turn of events is...

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 way too much emphasis is placed on online team play, and...

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, i.e. “mod”. It is really difficult to...

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...

Let’s say your 360′s starting to get slow. You’re starting to notice strange glitches in your games. Video is experiencing slowdown where there should be none, load times are through the roof, and generally, your system’s just not co-operating with you in any way, shape or form. Alternatively, maybe a game update has all but bricked...

Government – any government, mind you – runs on paper. Not thousands of documents. Not tens of thousands. Not hundreds of thousands. Millions of documents. Possibly billions by this point. If you ever wondered why it takes government so freakin’ long to modernize, it’s because of the absolutely colossal amount of paper that needs to be...

For some reason, you want to erase your online tracks. We’re not going to discuss why – I’m sure you have an excellent reason to do so. The process involved in deleting your history and all the files associated with it depends entirely on what browser you happen to be using.  We’ll start with Google Chrome. Chrome: First, click on the...