We all know what bloatware and crapware are, even if we’re not fully aware of it. They’re the programs we love to hate- the digital garbage packed on to pre-built PCs that their users neither want nor need. Usually, they accomplish nothing, aside from slowing down your system to a crawl. In the worst cases, PCs which might otherwise boot up in...

It’s bound to happen, eventually- keyboards are like anything else, and subject to the same wear and tear as any piece of hardware. If you use one enough, eventually, you’re going to have to do a bit of repair work. After all, cleaning your keyboard doesn’t really help when half the keys are missing, does it? Truth be told, it’s not...

I’ve written my fair share of articles with my laptop propped up by my legs, and I’m sure most of us who have portable PCs have held them in that general area. As it just so happens…that’s a very, very, very bad idea- particularly if you’re pregnant. See, the thing about laptops is that the complex circuitry within emits a fairly...

Laptops have an issue with them that isn’t shared by their larger, desk-bound brethren. Given the close proximity of their components to one another, they’re actually fairly difficult to keep cool. While some systems don’t seem to have much of an issue, others seem to overheat at the drop of a hat. Cooling trays aren’t so much a luxury...

So you want to create a guild, do you? That’s not exactly an easy task to accomplish- particularly if you’re looking for your guild to gain any sort of recognition or power on your server- it’s not as simple as knowing how the in-game guild creation system goes or inviting a few friends along for the ride. In a lot of ways, it’s almost...

Another quickie today, folks. I’d like to draw your attention to a nifty tool for benchmarking your PC, by Passmark Software. It’s not really all that difficult to determine if one graphics card(or PC, for that matter) has more power than another. In a lot of cases, you can simply look at how much video memory it’s got. Plus, it’s a safe...

Everyone who’s ever written an academic paper knows that academia in general doesn’t much care for Wikipedia. Citing the Internet’s largest open encyclopedia is more or less a guaranteed fast track to a failing grade, and a great many experts caution against using it, stating that the information contained on the site is both incomplete and...

Here’s a bit of a pickle for you. You’ve got some little, 15 inch laptop on which you want to game, but the screen kinda hurts your eyes a bit. We’ve all been there, right? Now, let’s take things a little further and assume you’ve also got an old iMac sitting around. Now, the screen on that thing is just a touch bigger than your...

I’ll be frank with you guys: the job market sucks. Finding decent, paying work is a herculean undertaking these days, even if you’ve got a degree that’s supposed to guarantee you a cushy spot. There’s a good chance that those of you who are currently unemployed (or underemployed, as it were) have been doing daily searches on all the...

Configuring your router and setting up a network can be a bit of a pain sometimes- particularly if you’re planning on running applications which require specific ports to be opened. Thankfully, there exists a plethora of online tools to make your life easier.  Let’s get started, shall we? Port Forward: We’ve covered Port Forward before, but...