For those of you that have ever used JkDefrag, MyDefrag is what it has evolved to, and it’s still as great as ever. When it comes to running a file defragmentation on your Windows PC, the only thing you truly care about is getting it done as fast as possible with no fuss. MyDefrag does just that. What are the improvements over JkDefrag? Here are five good...

For as long as I can remember, the Linux GUI environment has always had good ways of seeing useful disk usage statistics, but in the Windows environment this is not the case. The best you can get is a pie or bar chart that doesn’t state too much. There is a free utility called WinDirStat that will give you very good, very useful (important) information...

Yes, this is a retro article, but with a modern twist. The Commodore 64 is to date the best-selling computer of all time and hasn’t been topped. An all too common item to be seen next to the C64 was the 1541 floppy disk drive. This actually was in fact more than just a disk drive. It was a computer because it did contain a microprocessor (this one, in...

Think the floppy disk is dead technology? OpenOffice 3… floppy disk! Google Docs.. floppy disk again! Windows Live Writer… FLOPPY DISK! ThinkFree.. ACK! FLOPPY DISK AGAIN! You cannot escape the floppy.. I think it’s about time to.. oh, I dunno.. change the save icon to something besides a 3.5-inch floppy...

In a few short months it’s going to be 2009, and a ton of stuff has changed in the world of computing over the past almost-ten years. Some of the modern advancements have proven to be a notable improvement while others still produce the same crapola they did nearly ten years ago. In this installment we’ll be taking a look at fixed disk drives (which...