If you have a laptop made within the last 3 years, chances are very good it has a card reader slot. Chances are also very good your desktop computer also has a card reader (or one attached via USB). Using portable apps when bouncing between your laptop and desktop is convenient because those little cards stay tucked out of the way and perform...

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...

There are some people who really like smooth scrolling when using a web browser on the desktop. In fact, the latest Firefox 16 installs with it enabled by default and has since version 15. Is smooth scrolling any good? I don’t define smooth scrolling as outright “good” or “bad”, because it all comes down to what you prefer to see...

There has been a lot of talk in the games console industry recently about the future of the home console. A lot of big people in the industry seem to be of the belief that it will not be around in the future. Even going as far as saying that the next incarnations of the Xbox and PS are the last that we as consumers are going to ever see. I don’t believe...

For those not in the know, “WX” when referred to as a band means “weather”, so I’m talking about portable radios that can receive the AM, FM and WX bands. The deal when it comes to a portable radio is that everyone should own one for the simple reason that when the power is out, radio is quite literally your only way of getting...

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...

Microsoft Office 2000 is, as far as I’m concerned, the best release of MSO ever to exist. Why? It’s lightning fast, has unbelievably good backward compatibility, and as you’ll see in the above video, it’s actually...

A relatively unknown feature of CCleaner that most people aren’t aware of is the ability to right-click on any section or group inside the application to clean parts of the Windows OS individually instead of all at once. Sometimes when running the CCleaner software you just want to clean specific parts instead of the entire OS. The above video shows you...