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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tips on How to Type Faster
Learning to type, for the most part, has become almost as essential as learning to write, and with the ever increasing presence of computers in schools, businesses and homes, being an efficient typist is almost as important as being an efficient writer. Especially for secretaries, students and other individuals who enter large amounts of data into a [...]
8 Ways to Boost Your Battery Life
After a while, all laptop batteries will eventually lose their capacity to charge. However you can greatly extend the life of your laptop’s battery by following some simple tips. Defragmenting a hard drive is one way to keep your battery juice. When your hard drive is fragmented, needless to say, your CPU has to spend [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
