Many moons ago when I was attending college getting my Video/Radio Production degree, the primary computers the school used for animation rendering were Commodore Amiga 2000 and 4000 boxes with LightWave software.
For our younger readers, this is before Microsoft Windows 95 even existed. Amiga computers did things back then which were nothing short of incredible. [...]

A tool every Windows user uses every day without thinking twice is Windows Explorer. Windows Explorer allows you to do everything from browsing to organizing and searching for files. One thing you may not have considered when using this tool is that you can user other file manager applications as well. One such tool is [...]

The dawn of the age of cloud-computing presses ever onward with Microsoft announcing that they won’t be including Apps such as Windows Movie Maker, Windows Mail, Windows Photo Gallery… In Windows 7.
They want to make their new OS what they describe as “cleaner”. The Apps that they chopped will still be available for optional [...]

The following assumes that your wireless networking card has been properly detected by Ubuntu and all you want to do is connect to your network at this point. I have an older Dell Inspiron 6000 and the Intel PROset wireless detects with no problem whatsoever. Other from-OEM wireless cards should also detect properly as well. [...]

A couple weeks ago, I posted an article called Your Computer Is Targeted. That article talked about a product called The Hacker’s Nightmare. Tonight, I wanted to show you a behind-the-scenes look at the product itself and exactly why I recommended it to my readers. So, earlier this afternoon I created a video where I [...]

I received some CD-RW (that’s Read/Write by the way) blank discs because I ran out of my standard CD-R’s and needed to burn some traditional audio CDs (yes, some people still do this). These happened to be Memorex CD-RWs.
I pop in the disc and no matter what burner program I use (Nero, WinAMP, etc.), the [...]

In a recent study which (hopefully) is not applicable to our readers, it was confirmed that users are “idiots”. From the article:
[T]he students seemed to find any dialog box a distraction from their assigned task; nearly half said that all they cared about was getting rid of these dialogs.
The dialog boxes they are referring to [...]

Often times when I am done working for the day, there is something which I absolutely have to do the next day. When this happens, there are several methods I use to make sure I remember to do something. Here is a quick list of the methods I use:

Put a note on my keyboard.
Open Notepad [...]

On Monday I wrote an article about Office Live and Google Apps. In that article I said:
Neither has any blogging capability whatsoever.
I was corrected on this concerning the Microsoft offering. By whom? The Microsoft Office Live Team themselves (see comments in that article).
Microsoft Office Live does do blogs and rather easily by using Live Spaces.
This [...]

With the popularity of RSS, many of you may have an extensive list of feeds you are subscribed to which can quickly become overwhelming. While there are always different strokes for different folks, I thought I would throw out a few tips which you may find helpful.

If you seldom read feeds from a particular site, [...]

Microsoft seem to produce versions of Windows so quickly these days that before you can manage to get used to the one that they seemingly only just produced; they’re beta testing another.
(If you look back to the turn of the century you’ll notice that the situation was rather similar: 2000 followed ME, (Or was it [...]