How to Change the Drive Letter of a Drive
By default, drive letters are assigned to permanent and removable storage depending on availability. Driver letters such as ‘A’ are reserved for certain drives such as floppy disks but most of them are available and can be assigned to any drive. Sometimes, you might want to change the drive letter maybe because you use several [...]
3 Excellent Ways to Export Firefox Bookmarks
Firefox is undoubtedly one of the best and most popular browsers available today as we saw in the ‘best web browser’ poll conducted on Computer Realm. For most of us, web browsing is an activity we conduct everyday religiously to stay updated, connect with people and for entertainment as well. All of this is primarily [...]
Poll: Do You Pirate Software?
Software piracy has been an issue software vendors have been combating ever since the advent of computers. Numerous publishers enforce different techniques to ensure that software used has been bought and paid for by users, but that still does not stop the vast amount of piracy taking place all over the globe today. There are [...]
Poll Results: Best Web Browser?
This is the first poll we’ve conducted here on Computer Realm. Based on the results, they don’t appear represent the global view of what people’s best web browser is but would be reasonably accurate for a tech savvy audience. After 2463 votes these are the results: (click to enlarge) Thanks to everyone who voted.
Is Facebook Down?
Facebook is without a doubt one of the most visited sites on the internet. Amassing over 500 million users and continuing to grow rapidly, Facebook is now an integral part of the world wide web with the development of their FBML (Facebook Markup Language) which integrates Facebook which virtually all popular websites so that users [...]
How to Convert Video to GIF Format
GIF files are an integral part of the internet as it is the only image format that allows lightweight motion pictures. One of its main uses is as avatars in social communities and forums. GIFs allow displaying dynamic avatars that can spice up profiles and interactions online however while it is a motion picture format [...]
How to Convert PDF Files to Word Format
A few months ago I shared some methods on how to convert files to PDF format (typically word documents). While some of the methods described can be pretty much reversed to convert PDF files to word format I thought I’ll cover a specific post on how to do this. There are numerous reasons why someone [...]
5 Reasons Your Video Card Overheats
one of the biggest hardware woes, specifically if you use your computer for gaming or other high graphic purposes is your video card overheating. Overheating can cause various pitfalls in terms of your computer’s performance the main consequence being permanent physical damage to your card. While in some situations the reason may seem obvious, sometimes [...]
Frustrated With Your PC?
Your PC can frustrate you for numerous reasons. Sluggish performance, numerous errors and so on. In most cases malware or some kind of registry issue might be causing the problem but it can be difficult to isolate and get rid of the cause in most situations. There are numerous diagnostic tools available to diagnose your [...]
How to Edit Animated GIFs
GIF formats are heavily used to display images specifically online for its impressive compression levels as well as for its ability to display animation. While there are several comprehensive image tools that allow various kinds of customization, most image tools don’t provide adequate customization for animated GIF files. You might want to edit an animated [...]
