February 6th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
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 4th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
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 2nd, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
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 Aseem Kishore
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 Aseem Kishore
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 Aseem Kishore
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 20th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
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 [...]
January 16th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
As ebook readers have become more and more popular over the past few years, there have cropped up numerous websites that make purchasing and downloading ebooks incredibly simple. The already existing Project Gutenberg website, for instance, which already made tens of thousands of books available as txt and html files, now makes those same books [...]
January 14th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
One of the great advances in Web technology for the Desktop user has been the increase in complexity of Web applications. It’s now possible to not only write your emails online, but use word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation programs, not to mention edit images, audio and even video, all within your web browser. Google Docs [...]
January 12th, 2012 by Aseem Kishore
In Windows and Mac OS X, when an object is sitting on your Desktop, the label will generally be in white text, with no background. Then, when highlighted, the background behind the text will become highlighted with whatever your standard “highlight” color is. This is also true with Linux, for the most part. Both GNOME [...]