September 6th, 2011 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To, Reviews
As a computer is used regularly, its hard drive will begin to age, even if the wear and tear isn’t obviously. You probably won’t start hearing strange noises, or notice anything out of the ordinary, but time will eventually cause your hard drive to fail. Tools such as SMART (which stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and [...]
September 4th, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: How-To
If you view the source for a lot of web pages, you may want to use an external viewer or editor rather than the default one. Say, for example, you want to use another editor such as PSPad, SourceEdit, ConTEXT, or Notepad++. You can select one of these programs as the program that will open [...]
August 30th, 2011 by Eric Fleming | File in: Featured Posts, How-To
Skype is one of the more popular VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) programs available for chatting over the Web (or from the Web to a land line or cell phone). It’s available for Mac, Windows and Linux, as well as mobile platforms, is free for making Skype-to-Skype calls, and relatively cheap for subscription plans as [...]
August 28th, 2011 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To
Amazon recently made public its new web app, called Kindle Cloud Reader. With Kindle Cloud Reader installed (it currently works with Google Chrome or Safari, and is also available for the iPad), users may read books purchased from the Kindle Store right inside their web browser. Better yet, it even works offline, so now you [...]
August 24th, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: How-To
If you transport files among various computers, having a secure way to store the files on a USB flash drive or external hard drive is a smart way to go. We have previously written about how to use TrueCrypt to create an encrypted file store in Ubuntu. An encrypted file store provides you with a [...]
August 22nd, 2011 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To
If you’re like many tech-savvy computer users, you’re a big fan of RSS feeds. Google Reader is among the more popular web-based feed aggregators, but using Google Reader generally requires you to actually navigate in your web browser to the Google Reader website and use the web interface. There’s nothing wrong with that, but what [...]
August 21st, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: How-To
Welcome to the second part of this two-part series about manually selecting a default web browser in Windows 7 and Vista. In Part I, we covered making Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer the default browser. In this post, we are going to discuss selecting Safari and Opera as your default browser. NOTE: These procedures will [...]
August 20th, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: How-To
We have previously written about how you can easily set Firefox Portable as the default browser in Windows XP, as well as other browsers. We also talked about a tool allowing you to set Firefox Portable as a default program in Windows 7 and Vista. What if you want to make Firefox (not the portable [...]
August 18th, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: How-To
Welcome to the second part of this two-part series about installing a portable version of TrueCrypt to a USB flash drive or external hard drive to create and access encrypted TrueCrypt volumes for storing and accessing your important files. In Part I, we covered installing TrueCrypt, which you must do before creating a portable version [...]
August 16th, 2011 by Eric Fleming | File in: How-To
Have you ever found a picture on a website, but found it to be fairly low resolution? You like the picture, but want something a little larger. TinEye is a fantastic website that lets you either upload an image from your hard drive, or point it to a picture on the Web (by entering the [...]
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