Windows Explorer and Live Photo Gallery support RAW
Up until now, editing, much less viewing RAW image formats were impossible in Windows Live Photo Gallery or Windows Explore. That however, has changed recently. Microsoft, who has been increasing the functionality of it’s Live applications, has of now added support for RAW images in Windows Explorer as well as Windows Live Photo Gallery. Thanks [...]
HDD vs SSD
The debate has raged on for some time now, which is the better option, solid state drives or hard disk drives? Just like every other new or exciting technology that comes out, manufacturers try to push it into the consumer realm, highlighting its features. But as everyone knows, advertisements hardly ever discuss weaknesses of the product [...]
Re-Enable Windows Vista Hibernate Option
If you have a Windows Vista based system, you might have noticed that your hibernate option has suddenly disappeared. Thankfully, there is a simple solution you can do to get your computer back to using hibernation regularly. This fix will require some command line use, but we will guide you through the entire thing. Open [...]
Looking For Facebook Themes?
The days of MySpace are over, and with it goes the customization of one’s profile. It’s not a surprise why Facebook does not allow users to customize their profile with themes, graphics, gif’s and other visual effects. The horror stories of MySpace profiles gone wrong reach to the sky and I’m sure that the last thing Facebook [...]
4 Tips to Hide Your Online Identity
Identity theft is becoming more and more of a problem, and with the increase in Internet users, unfortunately the numbers are going up and not down. If you would like to hide your online identity, there are some simple no nonsense principles you should follow. I will list four of the ones I and others I have [...]
Grooveshark: Is It Illegal?
You probably would have heard of the website Grooveshark, a place that allows you to listen to almost any song for free with unlimited skips, without commercials, customized playlists and mobile applications for almost all the major smartphone brands. What a lot of people ask, is if they can get in trouble for listening to music [...]
eReaders vs. Tablets
Tablets are becoming more and more common and eReaders are taking the book, magazine and newspaper into the next millennium. That said, it is becoming increasingly clear that both devices are competing, though not in the traditional sense of the word compete. But still, with the push for digital media, one will prevail while the other fails or [...]
Pandora vs Slacker
The war rages on, which internet radio service is better? Before I became an avid user of both, I used to wonder the same thing. Thankfully, after continual heavy usage of both, I began to notice patterns. Interface Out of both interfaces, Pandora has the cleaner and more intuitive one. That said, Slacker offers more [...]
Does Smartphone Virus Protection Work?
Ever so often I am posed with an unusual question. The other day the question was about a very popular virus protection tool in the Android Marketplace, this app will go nameless. The question was asked if the app could protect a user’s personal data stored on their phone from being stolen by another app [...]
3 Causes of External HDD failures
External hard drives, whether desktop or portable, are a great way to back up important files or add additional storage to any connected devices. However, when such a hard drive begins to fail, the ramifications can be serious. Fortunately, if you know what causes external hard drives to turn on their owners, you can prevent [...]
