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There are useful keys on a keyboard that many of us ignore to use. If you wish to break from habit the old typing method, using keyboard shortcuts can dramatically increase your work efficiency.
Yakuake, Yet Another Kuake, is a great application to use instead of Konsole or Terminal in your Kubuntu system. It is always there and does not require you to open a new window.
Sick of your computer being slow? Tired of paying people a lot of money to format your computer? Pay no more...
Fiddler is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all traffic between your computer and the Internet. It allows you to inspect all traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or...
Publishing into the Quicktime movie format/codec from Flash lets you create a video file that can be downloaded or even used for broadcast production. In some cases interactivity can even be...
The JPG/JPEG format is one of the most popular and widely-used formats on the web, allowing for millions of colors in depth while compressing images to the smallest space possible. You can...
Apple has incorporated mini-applications called widgets into the operating system. Widgets can be useful or irritating. Your either love to use them or totally ignore the fact that you have...
OS X Leopard's Dashboard is a new feature that contains "widgets"-- small mini-programs for your use, such as a calculator, calendar, dictionary, phone directory, weather report, stock tracker and...
Make your Mac Dashboard Widgets available on your desktop with the use of just one small terminal command. With Widgets on your Mac desktop, you’ll always have any of your Widgets handy....
When your computer is not working properly due to software issues or whatnot, you can do a restore. Restoring the computer will do one of two things. You can choose a soft restore which will...
Taking a screenshot will help you keep records of anything that you are doing on your computer. You can save images from websites, games or anything else that you are doing on your computer. Here...
Windows XP allows you to activate the same copy of Windows 25 times on the same computer. Once you've reached your limit, you must call Microsoft to activate Windows XP. Sometimes, the count limit...
If you're new to using a Mac computer you have probably noticed that Mac CD drives don't offer an eject button. In order to remove a CD or DVD from the drive users instead use shortcut options...
The Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) is the main program that operates any computer. When you press the "Power" button to turn on the computer, the BIOS loads the operating system, which then in...
Win-Spy is a security program for computers that helps you monitor what happens on your computer. From keeping an eye on employees to tracking what your children are doing online, Win-Spy is a...
Star Wars Battlefront 2 was developed by Pandemic Studios, published by LucasArts and released in the United States on November 1st, 2005. The game features dozens of missions on planets familiar...
The F (function) keys on a computer keyboard are shortcut keys. By pressing an F key once, mouse navigation is bypassed or at minimum, shortened. Processes are completed faster and with less...
Every key on a computer keyboard is capable of a range of functions, depending on how it's used in combination with other keys. Knowing what keyboard shortcuts are available and how to perform...
"BIOS" stands for Basic Input/Output System and is always run when your PC starts. The BIOS checks for your computer's various components, tests them and gets them ready to be used. Since it is a...
Have you ever needed to change the boot order on your Dell Latitude Notebook PC to boot from a CD or an external hard drive? Maybe you want to install the newest version of Ubuntu or reload...
Before you donate or dispose of your computer, you'll want to wipe the hard drive. Harvesting information from old hard drives has become a relatively common occurrence, and with identity theft on...