The internet is full of snake oil salesmen with penchants for making empty promises and false declarations. Like much of the modern world, it’s an unsafe place for the gullible and naïve. It’s a dream world that will have you beli...
When I was younger, my computer was a maze. Every file was a vagabond and every folder, a squatter camp. I used to lose things a lot, unsure where I placed that new crack for a game I just downloaded or that new album I just rippe...
How many of you out there hate Windows 8 and think migrating to it is the devil’s work? Okay luddites, why wont you upgrade to Windows 8? Whenever I present this question, I always receive the same arguments in response abou...
When I find myself in a comfortable position; I become complacent,a little arrogant and I lose all foresight. I hardly save for rainy days and new year’s resolutions are broken and forgotten within the first few minutes of a...
Why would you even need an alternative to WinRAR or WinZip when even after it’s trial period has expired, it still practically gives you unlimited usability? It reminds me of that friendly neighbor who lends you his umbrella...
I often reminisce on my life before the internet and Google – before I became a little too lazy to think for myself. Like many, I had a computer built out of a kludge of second hand parts and incompatible drivers to go with ...
There was a time when SSDs were considered to be too unreliable and expensive to be a viable option for persistence data storage by the general population. People aren’t willing to sacrifice disk size, money and certainty fo...
My love of music will probably have me wearing hearing aids by the age of thirty and deaf by the age of forty. One, great defining attribute of any hipster is his or her extensive taste in music. We pride ourselves in listening to...
I used to scratch my head, pondering on why acquiring a Windows license key was so expensive. It has to be one of the most pocket-emptying pieces of software, along with Microsoft Office. There was a time when I thought that you h...
Not everything made in China is crap. Baidu, known prominently as the leading Chinese search engine (it even tops Google there) can attest to that statement. As Baidu now stands at the cusp of becoming a web-service and software c...
With the popularity of on-line social networking and media basically enamouring and planting itself into modern global society, it has created its own little world wide subculture. With any subculture, you find new colloquialisms ...
Many of us have a large library of images, whether they are family photos, art, desktop wallpapers and the type of pictures we don’t want to be caught with, these images can be very important to us. Human beings are sentimen...
Many who know me, think that I am an advocate, believer and promoter of a greener life style. This is untrue. The truth is I am a cheapskate. I spend the majority of my days dreaming of ways that I can cut corners and save money. ...
One major problem I’ve always had or experienced with the proprietary Windows File System Explorer is that it doesn’t come with easy and readily available tools for folder sorting and analysis. I have an extensive vid...
Sometimes we find that we are unable to delete a directory or file because its in use by an application, the operating system or another user on the network. Sometimes in extremely unlucky cases, we find that the file may be inser...
