Some of you may be hesistant to try out the new Firefox 3 Beta, because you can’t keep your old Firefox 2 install intact. Also, some websites just don’t work that well yet on Firefox 3, even though the last beta is out. So here’s a nifty guide on how you run the Firefox 3 [...]
Have you window shopped around Amazon, and wished certain things were cheaper, or you know maybe you wanted to save a few items for you to keep your eye on without having to go through all the trouble of opening up a wishlist or temporarily adding them to your cart?
The BuyLater plugin for Firefox lets [...]
Graphics card artifacts are the jaggies, and video anomalies that appear on some monitors due to problems with either the graphics card or the power supply. These artifacts are irritating, and most of the time can be prevented.
Video artifacts show up mostly due to three reasons: faulty, or poorly manufactured graphics card, lack of power [...]
Online computer stores are typically the best places to buy computer parts. Low prices, shipping is often free, or for a very low price, no sales tax, unless you live in like 2 of the 50 US states, they also features reviews and important information so you can make informed buying decisions, and you don’t [...]
Google Earth 4.3 Beta was released2 days ago. “The release of Google Earth 4.3 (beta) greatly advances our vision of offering a realistic, 3D model of the world by giving users a higher quality, more immersive experience.” -Google Lat Long Blog. They changed the navigation system, added more and faster 3D buildings, added a new [...]
WinAmp is a very good media player that includes a lot of built-in functionality. It’s easy to use, setup and manage, yet still has enough bells and whistles to satisfy many power users. And if the basic functionality isn’t enough for you, you can install plugins and customizable themes to tweak everything to your liking, [...]
Blue Lock is a program written by Wuul to help you secure your PC when you’re not around it. Now you don’t have to worry about locking up your computer at work, or at home, because this program will automatically lock it for you.
Blue Lock locks your Windows PC when a particular Bluetooth device is [...]
One day, after work you go to turn on your computer, because you’ve finally saved up enough money to buy that super expensive HDTV online at Amazon that’s on sale for 50% less than the list price for today only, and it comes with free shipping to boot, but you push the power button and [...]
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MS Paint, or Microsoft Paint, the friendly built-in drawing tool of Windows often gets tossed to the side amongst all the other high-tech, resource-hungry image editing programs like Photoshop CS3, or The GIMP. MS Paint isn’t that bad of an image editor and drawing tool, in fact some of my best work was done in [...]
