February 6th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To, Windows 7
Every operating system will tell you that your computer will run best, and will be safest, if you keep it up-to-date. This is a no brainer, really, and so there are dozens of good reasons to have your system’s automatic update checker turned on, and to have those updates installed automatically as well. On the [...]
February 5th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To
A lot of us really enjoy wasting spending time watching videos on YouTube. To be honest, it’s a bit too easy to get distracted and not notice the time until hours have passed, but that’s another story. Of course, the “problem” with YouTube is that sometimes you just want to watch a video while you’re [...]
February 4th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To
If you’ve just started using Windows Live Writer as your blogging client of choice, you may notice that it has some interesting presets for how to handle images you want posted in your blog. For instance, let’s say your blog has a a template so that images should be 580 pixels wide. That’s how they [...]
February 3rd, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To
It’s a good idea to keep the software on your computer up-to-date. Not just the system software, but all the individual programs you’ve installed over the years. This is true for a few reasons. First, as software is “in the wild,” so to speak, bugs and other problems are found and – hopefully – corrected [...]
February 2nd, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To
You can do a lot with extensions to modify how Firefox looks and behaves. Of course, with every extension you install, more memory is being used. Sometimes an extension can be poorly written so that it eats memory beyond what it’s intended to, while other times having so many extensions can simply bog down your [...]
January 29th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To, Linux Tips
In Linux, Transmission is one of the most popular Bittorrent clients available. It has a nice, minimal interface and doesn’t tend to use a lot of system resources when in use, even with heavy downloading. For users making a switch to Linux, it may come as a surprise that one of the standard Bittorrent clients [...]
January 26th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To
In case you’re interested, there are currently more than half a million Harry Potter Fan Fiction stories available on fanfiction.net. What is fan fiction? Simply put, it’s when someone sits down to write a story using characters someone else has created. There are fan fiction stories available for Twilight, Star Wars, X-Men, Lord Of The [...]
January 25th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To, Linux Tips
As more and more users have multiple operating systems installed, it becomes a smart move looking for programs that work on all of these platforms. Say, for instance, an individual has Windows, Mac OS X and Linux installed on the same computer. Instead of having Internet Explorer, Safari and Epiphany as your web browsers, why [...]
January 21st, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To, Linux Tips
In Linux, there are many instances where one program will need to use an external program in order to perform a job. Say, for instance, you are using FTP, and want to edit a text file on a remote server. You likely have a few different text editors installed on your computer, such as vim, [...]
January 20th, 2012 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To, Windows 7
For many computer users who have complaints about their ISP’s Internet speed, one factor they may not be considering is the quality of their ISP’s DNS servers. DNS stands for Domain Name Servers, and is what your web browser uses to convert the web address you type into the URL bar of the browser into [...]
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