Tablets can be a cool addition to your input/output for your computer. It will allow you to hand-write into your computer (useful for signatures, etc) or draw into an image-editing program. Adesso and Wacom are two companies in this space. Adesso sent us their entry-level Cybertablet 6400 to check out.
Adesso’s CyberTablet comes provided with the [...]
A filename extension is a suffix to a filename. There’s the name of the file itself, then a period, then the extension. When you see Document.pdf, the ".pdf" is the extension. The filename extension is one of those things that’s a necessary evil in computing to differentiate one type of file from another.
Some UNIX/Linux environments [...]
For those of you who have upgraded to Windows 7 and are looking for some shortcuts which were not previously available in Windows XP, check out this quick post: The Best Windows 7 Shortcuts. These shortcuts were derived from a huge list of shortcuts available in Windows.
I do not yet have Windows 7 so I [...]
The Portable Document Format, which you know simply as PDF, is in fact a very good format for documents mainly due to four facts:
They’re usually significantly smaller compared to a DOC (especially if there are images within).
They look exactly the same no matter what OS you use.
It is true WYSIWYG concerning printers. What [...]
One of the big no-no’s in online security is using the same user name and password for different sites. The reason is simple: if one site gets compromised, your login information for other sites is now “floating around”. While having separate passwords is great in theory, practicing it is another story. To help with this, [...]
Recently Google released Google Dashboard which tells you “what Google knows about you”.
The dashboard lists some of the information associated with the Google services you use: your name, your email address, the number of contacts, the number of conversations in your Gmail inbox, your Google profile, the most recent entries from the web history etc. [...]
If you do a task which requires you to have several programs open, a time saving thing you can do is create a batch script to open these programs and/or files at once. This is accomplished by using the START command. Using the syntax:
START /D “path_to_program” program_name
For example, to open both Firefox and IE, the [...]
Microsoft Security Essentials is an antivirus/anti-malware/anti-spyware application. It is free and runs on the Windows operating systems XP, Vista and 7.
This review is not going to concentrate on how much stuff MSE can detect but rather boiled down to a simple question:
Does it get in your way?
I’ll explain that further.
Applications specifically designed to protect your [...]
Browser skinning simply means to change how it looks. The functionality remains the same, but the icons, background, menus and so on have an altered appearance. In some instances, browser skinning can also include adding in functionality it didn’t have prior.
Here’s how to use an alternative skin for Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera.
Internet Explorer
IE has [...]
If you have a hard drive with some unallocated space on the end of (i.e. not currently assigned to a partition) and want to use that space to add to an existing partition, a simple and effective tool you can use is Diskpart. This tool is included with Windows XP and later.
The documentation is pretty [...]
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