Now that you may or may not have re-compressed your AVI files with AVI Recomp, you may be wondering if there is a great alternative to playing your multimedia files. If I had to answer that question, I’d have to give you a b...
We all have files that we’d like to hide. Some for security reasons and some cause we’re ashamed of them like our naked bodies or shady pasts. Some of us hide these files in deep obscure folders like the windows system...
What is an AVI? AVI stands for audio video interleave and is a multimedia container format, first introduced by Microsoft in 1992. As a container file, it can house both separable audio and video i.e. an AVI will contain both mpeg...
What I’ve always found annoying is running file types that are unknown to Windows. I hated being prompted sometimes, over and over again to select a program to run this file or scour the web for an application to run this fi...
I have a strange relationship with fonts. When I started writing applications, I was a little over the top and creative with the user interface colour scheme. I used to choose the most bourgeois fonts for labels, text fields and t...
A while ago, I was having a problem with slow PC start up times. I had just upgraded to Windows 8 a few weeks ago so in my mind, like other Windows 8 hating consumer, I blamed Microsoft’s latest update. Never mind that I had...
I love high resolution wallpapers. I could spend hours searching the internet for something to make my desktop look even prettier. Sometimes I’ll spend that hour searching to exhaustion but never finding anything that inspir...
I used to be very paranoid about losing all my important media files, mainly music. As an iPod owner, I felt the need to backup every file from it. The simplest way was to show all hidden items on it, search for music files and co...
The first thing I noticed when I first upgraded to Windows 7, 3 years ago was that it came with a sticky note program. I gleefully played with it for about 5 minutes before forgetting it about it almost forever. I have friends an...
Necessity,need or just sheer innovation used to be regarded as great motivators of invention. Now it seems that convenience and laziness are the only reasons to create or change. There is nothing wrong with that, why waste time a...
Defective pixels – I fear the idea that one day I’ll switch my monitor or T.V screen on to find a singular pixel misbehaving. I can handle a set of pixels not working but just one would probably send my OCD on overdriv...
For anyone who has a graphics card especially a high end one, its important to understand its cooling needs. Whether you’re a gamer or graphics designer, you have to be conscious on how much heat your GPU may be generating. ...
I, like many users, favour Google Chrome as their standard web browser of choice, and who can blame us, the new iteration currently ranks highest in startup and navigation time. There is a downside to using it, though. It probably...
