Sony’s PlayStation Portable is like a mini entertainment PC. Not only can you watch movies either via UMD disc or downloaded and converted with the proper video decoder, you can also listen to music, cruise the Internet and a whole host of other things.
Users of the PSP have gotten more out of the device as […]
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Your Mac is the safest personal computer on the market. Even though we’ve had a couple of scares this year, there are still almost no Mac viruses. According to research done by Sophos (a maker of antivirus software), at press time there were only four known […]
So it is time to jump head first into the digital realm. It is time to take your business or career to the next level, and you are convinced a great website is the answer. The problem is that most anyone can start planning for a new website and get completely overwhelmed within the first […]
It’s one of those software design decisions that makes you scratch your head and wonder, "What were they thinking?"
The "it" in this case is XP’s most powerful rebuild/repair option, and yet Microsoft chose to hide it behind seeming dead ends, red herrings, and a recycled interface that makes it hard to find and (at first) […]
We have a GMail productivity tip here for users who get too many email messages per day. Read and delete messages by making minimum use of the mouse.
When Google launched GMail with 1GB of free storage, the GMail interface had neither a Delete Button nor any sort of Delete keyboard shortcut to move email messages […]
Optimizing PC memory isn’t as easy as "just add more," and in fact there are plenty of times when adding more RAM is downright pointless. This column will cover some monitoring tools and techniques that will help you figure out what’s really going on with your machine and when you do need to add more […]
Why?
Because Dapper was just too Damn reliable… nah, seriously, I need to run Microsoft Visual Studio, and doing so under wine was not going to cut it, and dual booting was going to be a pain, VMWare was not open source so….QEMU to the rescue.
Briefly..
There’s a program called qemu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU), by Fabrice Bellard.
This is one of my all-time favourite tricks!
It took me far too many years to finally get sick of how slow Adobe Acrobat loads PDF files. It was taking between 10 and 30 seconds to load a single file. How could this be? Well, I found a solution and I highly recommend it to everyone, […]
Most email messages you send travel vast distances over many networks, secure and insecure, monitored and unmonitored, passing through and making copies of themselves on servers all over the Internet. In short, pretty much anyone with access to any of those servers - or sniffing packets anywhere along the way - can read your email […]
A few months ago, VMware released a free version of its desktop virtualization software, VMware Player. It’s a great application for running a second operating system on your desktop; the only problem is you can’t create new virtual images using VMware Player. With a little work, however, you can use VMware Player to create guest […]
This tutorial shows how you can run your own name servers for domains that you register with GoDaddy. Of course, this works with every other registrar as well, although the procedure might differ a little bit.
To do this, you need two servers with two different public IP addresses and with ISPConfig installed, and of course […]
The purpose of this how-to is to give Ubuntu desktop users (especially new ones coming from the Windows world) the guidance to enable full multimedia support and playback of popular media codecs and technologies in just 3 simple steps. Once completed, your Linux PC will have DVD (CSS) movie playback support, OGG / THEORA / […]
Lot’s of times many files in your pc are undeletable. Well,here is a tip to delete anything You want! Open a Command Prompt window and leave it open. Close all open programs
Click Start, Run and enter TASKMGR.EXE
Go to the Processes tab and End Process on Explorer.exe. Leave
Task Manager open
How to convert an entire website to an image file or PDF on Windows, Linux or Mac ?
Some time back, we discussed several screen capture add-ons for IE and Firefox with auto-scroll feature that allow you to save lengthy scrolling websites with images, javascript and even Flash animations to graphic files in GIF, JPG, TIFF […]
First you have to download the Beta 2 of Vista available at Microsoft.com, or order the DVD kit to be shipped to you for about 10 bucks. Last time I checked everyone and their sister was downloading the 3.12 GB file from the Microsoft servers, so for awhile there they took down the download link […]