Modern day consoles serve as more then just gaming platforms. Features such as the ability to browse the web and play back media are now commonplace. Sony’s Playstation 3 not only features a full fledged Blu Ray Player and an online store, it offers something else that is less commonly known: the ability to upgrade [...]
Many of you are probably familiar with one particular operating system, but desire to dabble into something else. Perhaps you would like to run and/or tweak with linux distributions; perhaps you already run linux, or a mac, but also have a desire for windows to be installed. In any case, what ultimately holds us back [...]
Solid state disks are making a splash. Their gradual decrease in cost is making it finally affordable* for end users to have one in their machine, although this market segment is still generally limited to enthusiasts with high-end rigs (gamers with too much money, media developers, and techies that simply like things fast) that are [...]
About two months ago I decided to switch wireless phone carriers and get myself a new phone. At the time I was with T-Mobile and had the HTC Dream; known more commonly as the T-Moblie G1. My decision to switch from T-Mobile stemmed mostly from the fact that their coverage in Southern Utah isn’t terribly [...]
Recently I installed an IOGear Bluetooth USB micro adapter into my desktop computer running Windows Vista. The installation went smoothly, almost instantaniously, in fact. Vista recognized the device immediately and installed the drivers for it within less than 20 seconds.
After this I paired my Plantronics Voyager 510 with my computer by putting the PLT-510 in [...]
As we’re switching many of the computers where I work gradually over to Linux (to save on both software licensing costs, as well as to extend the life of the older hardware) I ran into a problem getting Ubuntu 8.10 running on a Compaq Presario SR1503WM.
The install went smoothly, absolutely no hiccups there. Even after [...]
Do you keep having intermittent performance issues or are worried about having such?
I’ve been seeing lots of comments and posts on computer helps sites where users have spent hours, days, weeks and often times lost important data, while costing themselves enormous amounts of money all because they weren’t keeping their Windows Operating Systems’s (OS’s)”up-to-date”, aren’t [...]
About:Blank is one of the most frustrating Browser Hijackers to stay around as long as it has and continue to do damage to systems. If you are hit you will totally be frustrated until you realize you have to do something. What you see that tells you your system has been hijacked by the About:Blank [...]