Here you will find tips, tricks, and guides on various different topics, but mainly focused on computers.
Are you a TeamViewer fan? Me and you both, brotha’ (or sista’). If you are a TeamViewer user, you will be glad to hear TeamViewer has announced TeamViewer 7 [for Windows — Mac and Linux versions are expected in 2...
Have you ever taken a look at your desktop and wondered if it could look any worse? Lets just say I am familiar with the issue. (OK, the above picture is faked, but still… it doesn’t reach my minimum standards!) So to ...
An annoying habit of programmers is to make their programs place an entry in the right-click context menu for files/folders in Windows Explorer. If you have a lot of programs installed, this leads to a cluttered right-click menu t...
To assist in multitasking, some people some multiple monitors; others use virtual desktops. If you don’t like any of the previously mentioned solutions (or maybe you like it but are unable to utilize them, i.e. you don’...
We know we can use WinCrashView to analyze crashed programs and BlueScreenView to diagnose Windows’ blue screen of death. How about programs that hang but not crash? Is there a tool to help troubleshoot hung apps? Yes, there...
Windows comes in with a built in search feature, in both XP and Vista. The search feature in Vista is, by all standards, far supperior to the one in XP; however you can always download Windows Search and get the same search tool a...
We have all had programs crashing on us in Windows. Often times program crashes can be solved simply by restarting your computer or rerunning the crashed program. However, other times it may not be so simple: There may be a bug in...
One of my favorite aspects about Gmail is that Google goes above and beyond simple e-mail, having extra features not found in many other e-mailing services. One of these extra features is Gmail’s activity monitor. Gmail̵...
As I am sure most of you know by now, Amazon has their own app store for Android, cleverly named Amazon Appstore. Via this app store users can do the customary buy paid apps and download free apps; however, in addition, Amazon has...
Background Okay I knew about this method for a while now, but never really had a chance to test it out. Well recently I had decided that it is time to reformat my Windows partition because it was getting filled with too much junk....
As I am sure all dotTechies know, backing up files regularly is a good idea because you never know when a technical disaster may strike. However, simply backing up files is not enough. You need to make sure you backup your files i...
Have you bought an iPad yet? Neither have I. (We may be lucky we have not jumped onto the bandwagon – yet – considering the complaints about iPad’s WiFi and how problematic it is.) Would you like to know how it f...
Spam -noun Super pestiferous anti matter -verb I want to hurt someone ….Okay on the serious note: we have all encountered spam. Yes even you (although you may not know in which case I ask you “have you checked your ban...
Most everyone uses ones of these every day and don’t know it. Some that do know either don’t understand it or, even worse, misunderstand it. Yet if anyone ever ran a Java program or a .NET based program they’ve used one. At its mo...
Are you using Firefox? Itching to update to the latest version? It is time to satisfy that itch. Staying true to their quick-release cycle pledge, Mozilla has released Firefox 8. And if you are an early bird, you can manually down...