In the Linux environment, it’s easy to install Firefox without a browser. An example would be sudo apt-get install firefox. In Windows however, the way you do the no-browser way is via FTP. Why would you need to know how to do this? As it states in the video, if you’re ever put into the [...]
For those of you that still use Windows 2000, either at work or at home, you know that Firefox 12 was the last version to work in that environment. If you want to install Firefox 13, WinXP is the minimum required Windows OS. Much to the dismay of many Win2000 users, Google never released a [...]
“Click-To-Play” means that for any Flash content that appears, instead of just automatically playing the content you will see a puzzle piece icon or a play icon where you have to click that to start the Flash. For many, this is exactly how like they Flash to operate. Chrome and Opera both have Click-To-Play built [...]
The first question you have upon read of the title for this article is, “Why would I need to know this?” That’s an easy answer. Very few people actually remember what type of graphics card is in their system. In the instance where you need to (re)install video drivers, you need a quick way of [...]
While I’m not a Firefox guy anymore, there is one feature that no other browser has ever been able to do as well, and that’s Live Bookmarks. Firefox is well known to have the absolute best bookmark management out of every browser that exists, and the fact it can do double-duty handling both regular static [...]
As a test, I used Google Chrome in “Incognito Mode” (as in private browsing) which turns all extensions off, so for any web page I loaded, everything showed up. All ads, all scripts, all Flash, everything. After that, I cleared the cache and loaded 5 popular web sites. I wanted to see exactly how much [...]
While it’s obvious that one should keep the files on their work computer neat, tidy, and organized, not many people apply the same principles to their home workstations. Truth be told, it’s a little odd. Keeping all your files where they can be easily found should be second nature to most people. Using the Windows [...]
WinFF is a graphical front-end for FFMPEG. While true you could use HandBrake to compress video files, using WinFF is better when you want more options and more control. Also remember that WinFF contrary to its name is not Windows-only as it also will run in Ubuntu, Debian and several other Linux distros. Check out [...]
I received an email from the developer of the Ultrafunk Popcorn email client yesterday: Hi Rich, I accidentally stumbled upon your posts about the Popcorn mail client on PCMech.com, and although I have no idea if you have any interest in it anymore, I thought you might like to know that after 3 long years, [...]
Normally, I always recommend UNetbootin whenever you want to write a bootable ISO image of a Linux distribution to a USB stick. Whether you use UNetbootin’s internal menus to do it or download an ISO elsewhere and use UNetbootin to write the image, it works… …most of the time. There are some instances where it [...]
In the Linux desktop graphical environment, there are many desktop session types, but the two that are most known are KDE and GNOME. This article is about GNOME. For a good long time GNOME was really good. Then version 3 came along and, well, it’s not-so good as it seems to be completely hit-or-miss whether [...]
There are more than a few people out there that absolutely hate the 2011 version of Windows Live Essentials and wish they could go back to the 2009 version. Well, you can – but it’s a bit of a commitment. You can’t run both 2009 and 2011 versions of the Windows Live Essentials suite at [...]
The biggest plus about gaming on the PC isn’t the LAN capabilities, nor is it the interface or the power of a souped-up gaming rig. Without a doubt, the biggest plus is the modding community. Lately, a lot of developers (Bethesda in particular) have been providing fans with the means to create new expansions and [...]
The answer to the question posed in the title of this article is yes, but only under a certain condition. It is safe to run your computer with no antivirus if the computer never connects to the internet at any time. Yes, that sounds ridiculous, but I have a point to make with this. Most [...]
Today, we’re going to take a look at a few terms that are fairly often applied to software and what each term means. Vaporware: Vaporware basically describes an application that simply…isn’t. It’s software that’s neither developed nor officially cancelled and exists in a strange sort of limbo between real and nonexistent. This term could also [...]
