May 27th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
Using a scanner to archive old photographs can be a rewarding experience. You bring your old snapshots into the digital age, and have the chnage to fix them up as well. Image editing software such as Photoshop and The Gimp have a lot to offer, including cropping, straightening, enhancing an image’s color saturation and brightness, [...]
May 26th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
There are a lot of differences between Windows XP and Windows 7, a lot of which are pretty minor, but make you stop and think for a moment. One of those differences is how you go about changing the size of desktop icons. I have gotten so used to doing it in Windows XP, that [...]
May 19th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
With the popularity of webmail such as Gmail, a lot of us are using our Web browser as our main email “client,” instead of a Desktop application such as Apple’s Mail.app, Outlook or Evolution. This means that if our Internet goes out, we have no way to look at our email; forget about checking for [...]
May 18th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
So I have a few Macs and a few PCs in my house and it’s always fun trying to get everything to communicate with each other. Luckily, with OS X Snow Leopard/Lion and Windows XP/7, communication between the different platforms is pretty good. Earlier is used to be a royal pain to get the two [...]
May 12th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
One common complaint that I get from friends and family is that their computers with default system configurations from Dell, HP, etc often times make the C partition too small and therefore forcing customers to figure out a way to extend the partition in order to get more free space. Unfortunately, when you search about [...]
May 7th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
Online office suites in general, and Google Docs in particular, have a lot of advantages over their Desktop equivalents. A major one is that no matter where you are, as long as you have access to the Internet, you can access and edit your documents. In addition, the version of the program you’re using never [...]
May 3rd, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
In many ways, new releases of Google products are viewed in a similar fashion to new releases from Apple. In other words, they are Big News. The newest of Google’s releases is the long-anticipated Google Drive, which allows users to upload documents to their Google Drive directly from the hard drive, and keep those documents [...]
May 1st, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
Windows, like other operating systems, makes allowance for people with factors keeping them from using their computer in the manner most others do. One example of this is the keyboard. For people with little or no typing abilities, or those with disabilities which affect their typing, the solution is something called Sticky Keys. Sticky Keys [...]
April 28th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
In a recent article, we showed how it was possible to change the background image on the Windows 7 login screen. The method showed required using the Registry Editor, which is never 100 percent safe, of course, but in this case the process is quite stable. At the end of the article, we mentioned a [...]
April 23rd, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
Windows XP had a few ways to share a folder and it was always a little confusing dealing with NTFS permissions and Share permissions. Now in Windows 7, it’s even more confusing! Yes, that’s because they now have Homegroups and you can share files with a homegroup, which is separate from sharing with the rest [...]