It’s important to keep the drivers in your system updated to make sure everything runs as it should. You’ve got many drivers in your computer that help keep things working correctly, but as technology progresses these drivers will need updated to keep up. Most people think it’s fairly easy to update your drivers, just …
For review today I’ve got two products. You can buy Microsoft Streets and Trips 2010 by itself or few a few dollars more you can get a GPS receiver with it. Today I have the bundle for review. Streets and Trips by itself is a great program for helping you find places and get …
Testing, Benchmarking and generally getting information about your computer is important to not only product testers and companies but it can also be a valuable source of information for the general user as well. If you look around the internet at product reviews and comparisons you’ll notice a few benchmarks that have pretty much …
A few years ago I was amazed out how my forty year old boss had such a poor memory. Now that I am, cough, cough, a little older with two kids running around at home and working around the clock I see how errands and to dos can be easily overlooked or forgotten.
Riding to …
Before I start this review I have a confession to make; I hate typing! I am not the fastest typist and I tend to make more mistakes than I care to admit to. So when MacSpeech offered me the opportunity to review their MacSpeech Dictate software I jumped at the opportunity.
MacSpeech Dictate is a …
These days, everyone knows you should back up your data on a regular basis. Our hard drives are becoming so big and the amount of data on them is nearly incomprehensible. To that end, when trouble occurs or our drives fail, it …
A while ago we took a look at WinX DVD Author software, and recently they asked me to take a look at another of their programs called WinX DVD Ripper, and, as the name suggests, it’s a DVD ripping tool. There are plenty …
One thing great, or maybe not so great, depending how you look at, is that all people are different, and we all have different personalities. We all like something different and that includes our computers themselves and the desktops we work on. The …
Remember the days when 120GB hard drives were considered capacious? Today a terabyte 3.5 “ hard drive can be bought for a little over a hundred dollars, sometimes less if you find a great deal. With all the available space on drives of …
At my last office job, I worked for a fellow with a rather forgetful memory when it came to passwords and logins. Despite most of them being the exact same, he could never remember his credentials to anything – ever. To solve this …
Losing computer data can be devastating. Imagine losing all your family photos, important work documents, or financial information. These scenarios have happened in the past and will in the future. To prevent such catastrophes it is important to have ones data backed up. In the Mac world there is Time Machine which works well but …
Having computers means, at least for me, that I need to know everything about it, and there are several ways of going about getting that information, some easier that others. Today I’ve got a brief review for you of a great program that I’ve personally been using for a few years now, it’s called …
One of the most anticipated apps since the announcement of the iPhone has been the Slingplayer Mobile. The mobile version of the Slingplayer software has been available for the Palm, Windows Mobile and Blackberry platforms for quite some time. What differentiates the iPhone version apart from these other devices is the larger viewing screen on …
With the growing popularity of internet TV, DVDs, and social media videos, the demand of professional quality DVD creation software is growing, along with the available options for the products.
WinX DVD Author is not as flashy as some, but for $29.90, …
If you have ever attempted to format a hard drive, work with its partitions, create or move partitions, change partitions between FAT and NTFS or explore your drive’s structure, you have probably come across some difficulty. The tools built into operating systems don’t give you full accessibility over your …
Online passwords are critical to ones cyber-persona. They are used to manage our bank accounts, shop online, log into our email accounts and so much more. As we spend more time on our computers, the password accumulation continues. How we implement and protect these passwords is critical in guarding our …
Ever have a hard drive die on you and you lose all of your data? If you haven’t then good for you, but I’m sure many of you out there have had catastrophe strike at least once, if not more than once. I’ve had it happen three time to me …
A quick search of the web brings up these shocking statistics: A laptop is stolen every 53 seconds, more than 12,000 laptops disappear each week from U.S. airports alone and only 3% of laptops are ever returned (http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/11/24/interesting-laptop-theft-statistics/). Before you become a member of that sad statistical group, consider employing some anti-theft deterrent. Physically …
Nero is one of the most popular CD and DVD burning suites on the market today, and for good reason, it’s easy to use and it comes packed with more than enough features for everyone to burn, create, copy, backup and play. …
Online video has become extremely popular, everyone on from children to grandparents are getting in on the action, but let’s be honest, it’s not all the greatest stuff out there. Video editing can do wonders for a video, and adding titles, music, and special effect can really make your videos stand out from the …