If you’re a current homeowner or renter that lives in a densely populated area of the United States, are thinking about moving and want to go somewhere that’s not-so dense and want an easy map to tell you this information, Mapping America is definitely a site you should bookmark. Check out the video below to [...]
Every time I think I have the email-signature-with-image thing licked in Windows Live Mail 2011, a new problem sprouts up. This time around it’s the fact that per my last video on the subject, the auto-add of an image into an email signature adds a very annoying “cool effect”, that being a drop shadow. This [...]
There are many Google Chrome extensions that once installed put a button a the top right of the browser. By right-clicking one, there’s the option to hide the button which doesn’t uninstall the extension but just hides its presence. But what if you hide a button accidentally or want one back that you hid? See [...]
Windows 98 may be old, but it happens to be the platform of choice for retro PC gaming because it plays most of the games for MS-DOS, all for Windows 95 and obviously all for Windows 98. Other than gaming however, you’d still want to use your vintage PC rig for basic computing tasks like [...]
Sizer is a freeware app that allows you to quickly resize application windows to predefined sizes in just two clicks (once configured). For those of you with larger displays, you will find this to be a very useful tool for the resizing of browser, image editor, word processor, spreadsheet windows and a whole lot more. [...]
For those of you running computers that are older and/or slower, your hard drive may be acting as a bottleneck of sorts when loading certain web sites. If you switch over your cache or profile folder to use your RAM instead, this may speed up your browser noticeably. The use of a RAMDisk is nothing [...]
In Windows it’s a little too easy to lose track of all the folder shares you create. However there’s a utility in Windows 7 that will list all your shares in just a few clicks. See video below to see how it’s done.
On most Windows Vista and Windows 7 PCs, the current-user-logged-in user folder is usually automatically shared over the local network. Some people don’t like this and don’t want the user folder shared out at all. This is an easy fix once you know how to do it. See video below for instructions.
Something that’s somewhat annoying about Google Maps is that when using the Street View feature there’s no way to preview whether an area has street views or not without actually engaging it. If you use Google Earth on the other hand, you can preview. Confused? See the quick video below for an explanation.
Not all USB microphones develop hissing/white noise sounds when plugged into a USB hub, but it’s generally true that with headsets, the microphone isn’t exactly what you’d call ‘premium’ quality. The reason for this is because more expensive USB microphones do have built-in physical filters to cut noise like that out, while on headsets the [...]
One of the more underrated features of the modern Firefox browser is the use of Tab Groups. This built-in feature (meaning no add-ons/plugins required) makes quick work of a cluttered-up tab bar by organizing a lot of tabs into easy-manage groups that can be ordered however you like. See video below for details on how [...]
KNOPPIX has been around a good long time and is one of the best Linux distributions for LiveCD use. In fact, KNOPPIX was one of the first OSes able to be run “live”. The latest version of KNOPPIX is 6.7.1. Still very fast, still very good in LiveCD mode, still one of the best distros [...]
Arguably, FileZilla is the best FTP client you could use. It’s free, it’s easy and runs on Windows, Mac or Linux. If you ever decide to dive into the world of traditional web hosting, it’s basically required to use an FTP client. The video below shows the basics of connecting to a site and executing [...]
It’s been said that 90% of people don’t know how to use CTRL+F in a web browser. Is this true? Probably. If you happen to be one of those 90%, you won’t be anymore after seeing the video below!
You may run into the situation where you ‘inherit’ a PC from someone else where the Internet Explorer is chock full of crap, namely toolbar apps. This is the long way to get rid of crap out of IE when you can’t reinstall Windows for whatever reason (usually not having the disc). It requires some [...]
