Popular Science is a cool magazine, and has made a great switch over into web magazine form. It has an official Android app, an iOS app, and now, a Windows 8 app. It rolls all of the latest stories and headlines into one big, beau...
There is tons of information known about each and every element known to mankind, but accessing it is another story. Most of it is scattered by the winds throughout the internet, some appearing on Wikipedia’s info boxes but ...
The future is of technology awesome, according to movies such as The Minority Report and Avatar. (The future itself, not so much.) But those futuristic computer interfaces are actually somewhat possible today–through the use...
Is your computer prompting you to choose between Windows 7 and some version of Windows you got rid of many years ago? That’s actually an issue with your bootloader, but luckily, with Visual BCD Editor that’s easy to fi...
USB drives are great–a great way to transfer viruses and sensitive files from one computer to another, that is. If you’d prefer to keep other people’s data off of your computer and your data on it, you can easily...
Are you an evening computer user? Many people are, but at the same time, many people choose to sleep or otherwise rest during the same time. If someone in your household or workplace doesn’t want your volume up high at certa...
Chemistry students everywhere are always in search of a better periodic table–one that shows them everything they need to know without overcrowding the already small squares. Due to their linkable, expandable nature, compute...
Are you trying to pick just one movie or video to watch tonight? Best of luck! If you were perhaps using a random number generator like Pick Me, however, you could eliminate the overwhelming number of choices and just sit back and...
Every Windows computer ever, no matter how meticulously kept up, has some amount of useless or junk data on it. Be it in a temp file somewhere, or even a failing hard drive, Puran Utilities lets you seek out disk problems with Dis...
Are you a fan of checkers? If you are, you’ll probably be disappointed to hear that there is not going to be an official Microsoft release of checkers for Windows 8. However, that doesn’t mean that other developers can...
Microsoft changed thousands of things between Windows 7 and Windows 8. Not the least of the differences is the omission of Gadgets. Originally introduced in Windows Vista as the Sidebar, they were eventually reduced down to just i...
Every time you right click on a file or folder, it brings up the context menu. In there, age-old programs that you thought you took off of your hard drive 10 years ago lurk around, waiting for you to accidentally unzip your files ...
Many people use scientific calculators only once or twice a month. This means that the rest of the time, they’re sitting, occupying space, for vast amounts of time. Ditch the physical device and start using your extremely po...
In recent years it’s gotten popular to showcase how odd and mechanical online translators can be by repeatedly translating from English to another language, back again, and then to another language multiple times. But findin...
On Windows 7, hitting the Win+D keyboard shortcut automatically minimizes all of your windows and shows the desktop. It has some pretty big issues, however: it’s either all windows at once, or none at all. You can’t hi...
