Archive for the ‘Microsoft’ Category

I just received an email this morning letting me know the beta release of Team Viewer for Android devices is now available. I’ve been using Team Viewer for a few months now and I have it installed on all of my computers (Windows 7, Windows XP, Mac OS X, Ubuntu 10.04, Linux Mint 9) and [...]

I thought I’d post something about this because I was on a forum and someone was trying to make a wallpaper for their mobile phone and said they’ve been using the default Paint program that comes with Windows. I felt really bad for them and I started to wonder if anyone else is putting themselves [...]

A while back I was looking for some good encryption software. I wanted to be able to save a folder full of my designs to a single file which would then require a password to access. I found plenty of expensive software to do this but they weren’t my style. Mainly because they weren’t free. [...]

If you’re anything like me you may be very picky about the software you use and how it’s set up. For example I will not use any browser other browser but Firefox. If I’m at a computer that does not have Firefox I will not log in to any email, social networking or online banking [...]

Looking for a new operating system? Have you ever considered Linux? I’ve been wanting to set up Linux on one of my computers for quite a while now but there were two things that were keeping me from doing so. First, all my computers have a purpose and I didn’t want to wipe out everything [...]

How many times have you spent hours downloading songs or videos to put on your iPod or other mobile device and just when you go to transfer your media over you get about 3458430 error codes saying the audio or video is not in the correct format? It’s irritating! I’ve been there so many times. [...]

So you’ve got your snazzy 120GB iPod and you’ve loaded it up with just about every song you’ve ever known plus all your favorite movies and podcasts. All you have to do is plug it in to your computer and transfer all your media from your computer to your iPod. Now your iPod crashes for [...]

Have you ever been downloading files and come across an “.iso” file and didn’t know what to do with it? What are these files and how do you make them work? ISO files are image files of a disc. Not “image” as in a visual picture but as in an exact copy of a CD [...]

These days there are many threats on the internet. Bad chunks of data can be put on your computer without you knowing simply by navigating to the wrong web site. So what can you do? There are so many media-rich web sites out there. How can you take full advantage of what those web sites [...]