Personally, I’ve never much cared for the antivirus/antimalware market. To me, it’s always seemed like something of a protection racket- “Lovely system you’ve got there, it’d be a shame if something were to happen to it.” Thankfully, there are actually several rather excellent antivirus programs available on the ‘net...

If you’ve been working with computers long enough whether new, old or both, you’ve most likely used The Ultimate Boot CD at least a handful of times. UBCD is a free ISO you can download and burn that contains a plethora of disk utilities. Many of the utilities are redundant in the respect that several perform the same function but just in a different...

I just upgraded to Firefox 6 recently. Why haven’t I written an article about it? There’s not really much more mentioning. Fx looks the same, acts the same and there’s nothing I could really point out that would say, "Hey, look at X feature.. totally new/awesome/blah-blah". The only thing that is making news concerning this browser...

At certain times you may get "adventurous" with your USB stick and do something to it which makes it unreadable – meaning to the point where you can’t even format the thing anymore. It also could be you have a USB stick so old that it has a really difficult time initializing. Should you toss the stick out at that point? No, there is one...

Ah, the ubiquitous "grandma" user. This is the type of user idiots like to spout out when talking about things like tablets and Macs, e.g. "So easy, grandma could use it." We all know what these folks are really saying is, "So easy a knuckle-dragging mouth breather with a 1st-grade education could use it". Right. Before continuing,...

Linux does video very well these days as there are good solid apps to get the job done. One of these apps is DeVeDe, which takes a ton of hassle out of making a DVD video disc. My favorite feature about DeVeDe is that it will compress any video you throw at it based on the size of the disc you choose and make it fit most of the time. In the video below, I take a...

When Microsoft did away with a whole bunch of screen savers in Windows 7, it really ticked off a lot of people – yours truly included. Most ‘full’ desktop Linux distributions come bundled with at least 50 screen savers (and even over 100, depending on distro). Some are great and some not-so great, so here are my picks for the top 20 Linux...

Definitely one of the underdogs (compared to KDE and GNOME) but still a rock-solid, fast and stable window manager that gets the job done, fluxbox is what I personally believe to be the best lightweight window manager for the Linux desktop environment. The Linux desktop these days unfortunately has ballooned up in bloat by an alarming amount – but...

The first time I did a video on this OS, I said some somewhat-not-nice things about it because it’s old. This time around I concentrated on the positives of Win2k. To note: Pretty much the only reason Win2k is still usable – outside of an office environment that is – is because of Firefox 5, Adobe Flash 10 and Thunderbird 5. Firefox is the only...

As regular readers of this site are aware, I test a lot of different operating systems both new and old. On the new side it’s almost 100% GNU/Linux distributions and on the old side it’s almost 100% older editions of Windows. The goal is always the same – to try to see which OS can do the most in the most efficient way. For example, recently I...