This is a general guide on how to replace an LCD on a laptop. Replacing an LCD is second to the most costly repair next to replacing the motherboard. I hope this guide will help you in repairing an LCD that has been damaged/destroyed. This is by no means an official super user manual. This […]
Gmail offers a lot of flexibility when it comes to the way you manage your email. Innovative features like labels, a dedicated mobile phone client and rich script-ability via Firefox’s Greasemonkey plugin create a unique appeal for users from nearly all walks of life. Since you can do so much with and to Gmail, I […]
Everyone loves the iPod. Not everyone loves iTunes. It’s not that iTunes is a bad application, but it does limit what you can do with your iPod. This week I’ll show you how to free yourself from the one computer, one music library shackles of iTunes using alternative software for managing the iPod. When you’re […]
Remember when it was first revealed the Windows XP could be installed and booted off of a USB flash drive? Well, great for Windows users. What about Mac users? We were left out in the cold. If one were to search hard enough in the vast Web index that is Google, one could find just […]
Back in September I revived my MiniITX box to serve as a backup server. I set up BackupPC, ran it once, it seemed to work, and then ignored it for weeks. When I checked back, it hadn’t run successfully since. Ugh, I want backups to just work! A few nights ago I decided to try […]
This Recipe will tell you how to install and optimize VMware Server, a software virtual machine emulator that lets you run Linux and one or more other operating systems at the same time, each in a separate window. In most cases this means Windows, though other OSes can be run as well. Why do it? […]
Similar to How to install Ubuntu in OS X using Parallels - a complete walkthrough, this tutorial will take you every single step of the way through installing Windows Vista using Parallels for OS X. The steps and screenshots used for this tutorial are specific to Parallels Build 1970 running on a MacBook Pro w/ […]
Portable Document Format (PDF) files have become somewhat of a de-facto standard for representing fixed layout 2D documents, and their use and versatility have grown over the past decade. Recently, Adobe announced that it intends to release the PDF 1.7 specification for publication by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). As demand increases for this […]
Over the last 12 months I’ve had made several posts that list ways in which you can optimise XP, 3 of which (10 Simple Ways To Speed Up Windows XP, 10 Intermediate Ways To Speed Up Windows XP and More Ways To Speed Up Windows XP) even made it onto the homepage of Digg. I […]
Converting files from one format to another is a necessity and you don’t need me to tell you that. A few years ago, software programs that were converting WAVs to MP3s, AVIs to MPEGs,were pretty much popular, although their abilities were limited to just a few features and not to mention the low format support. […]
Japan’s Turbolinux will begin selling its Wizpy Linux-based multimedia player in February. As a bonus, the device can also be used to boot a PC into the Linux OS, allowing users to access their files in their own working environment on almost any PC.
Putting any old video file - like the DivX/Xvid-encoded videos you’ve downloaded with BitTorrent - onto a DVD to play on your TV can be a daunting task. There’s plenty of software that tackles this sort of thing for a price, but as a lover of open source software, free’s always my first choice. Luckily […]
This article explains how I managed to install over 50 various operating systems on my computer (1 hard drive) without having to burn the distro ISO to disk to boot from. (No floppy, usb, cd, dvd, etc. needed!) I first partitioned my 120GB harddrive into 10 partitions, the 2nd partition is a small swap and […]