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When Google made their announcement yesterday [Thursday November 20, 2009], included in their release statement was the fact that their new operating system would be open source. Some of you may not know what open source is. Basically the term means that creative works are shared by anyone and everyone, including modification of the code [...]

Microsoft has built into Windows 7 a tool in which users can check the reliability of their Windows 7 installation. The reliability feature uses a graph that a user can use to determine if any problems have been reported and if there is a possible solution. You can start this feature by going to Start [...]

Michael Dell made a convincing argument when he stated that most users of Netbooks will want to dump the devices after 36 hours of use. He stated that the screens are too small, the processing power is weak, though a Netbook is OK as a second computer. He went on to state that users of [...]

One of the minor complaints about Windows Vista was the way the User Account Control notification system annoyed the heck out of some people. During the following few years of using the operating system, there were 3rd party applications available that could control how and when the User Account Control behaved. Now with the introduction [...]

Yesterday I received an email from a friend of mine which asked for help with a used computer system he had purchased. The computer had software preinstalled on it but came with no documentation, installation disks for the operating system, nor any serial numbers for the software. My friend asked if there was a program [...]

Qwest is giving their wireless customers 60 days to find another carrier. According to a press release the company states that their current customers can switch over to Verizon and keep some of their perks. However, their company also offers some other suggestions on their web site which include the following information:
Qwest will discontinue [...]

My definition of an Imbecile is someone who is considered an idiot or just flat out stupid. Which made me wonder. Are we Imbeciles? I do not believe we are. In fact for the people who read and have associated themselves with Lockergnome, I have found you people very intelligent.
What brought these thoughts to my [...]

Google Android, the operating system that could change the way we compute, may be coming our way in the third quarter of this year. The folks at Acer have plans to possibly introduce a Netbook using the Android OS. You may recall that Acer was the company that was highly critical of Microsoft when the [...]

Microsoft has begun testing what they call the ‘Vine’ in the Seattle area. According to recent reports, Microsoft has developed the dashboard as:
Vine is a hyperlocal, personalized message and alert system. It’s intended to be a dashboard that people can use to keep tabs of their family, friends, activities and major events in their community.
The [...]

On January 30, 2007 I wrote an article about defraging your PC and whether it helped or not.  I received a comment from reader ‘Ringo’ who stated:
A good experiment to do about defragmentation is to defrag every day for a while, it then takes no more than a couple of minutes.
Now don’t defrag for a [...]

What some of us have suspected for a long time may be coming closer to reality. In an article about Net Applications and their report made about Microsoft’s slide to under 90% market share for their OS, another observation was also made. It seems that Net Applications can determine with accuracy, the operating system of [...]

For the love of Windows people. Windows 7 is Vista. Microsoft is not going to make major changes. They have already stated that Windows 7 will be Vista, only better. So enough with the pure 100% garbage that Windows 7 is going to be some super child of an operating system. It is not going [...]

I had previously mentioned in another post that I was considering giving Vonage a try and I received some great comments. So I ordered Vonage and thought I would share my experience with you. Thanks to Marc aka ‘the oracle’ for his advice. I did connect the Vonage modem to my wireless router and all [...]

Back in 1986 Geraldo Rivera hosted a special that was broadcasted live from the Lexington Hotel, in Chicago, IL. This live broadcast was hyped to the point that the curiosity of America was brought into the hotel with an estimated 30 million viewers. The hype was all about a safe located in the basement which [...]

Anyone who has purchased any gaming software, may be familiar with Steam, which is a Valve feature program. On the Steam site they describe Steam as:

Instantly access your favorite games
The full Steam library and all future Steam releases are at your fingertips. After you’ve purchased a game, download it immediately and start playing.
Join the Steam [...]

Some where, someone made mention that Microsoft should of considered a Second Edition to Windows XP instead of releasing Windows Vista.  Interesting observation. Or is it? If anyone remembers, Windows 98 had a Second Edition [Gold], that they introduced which included a number of tweaks, fixes and patches wrapped up into a refined Windows 98.
So [...]

It is hard to believe that the most successful auction site on the Internet may become the new Amazon. eBay is going to start telling its sellers that fixed pricing may be the way to go and not the more traditional auction, which eBay became famous for. Like everything else on the Internet, eBay is [...]

Over the years I would venture to guess, that many of us have tried a multitude of software or hardware devices that promised improved speeds on our systems. As much as we hate to admit it, most of these products provided limited improvement to our system performance. So when I read about Intel’s Turbo Memory, [...]

It is hard to believe in a state that houses Silicon Valley, and some of the most advanced technology in the world, that the State of California is using computers from the dark ages. It is even more absurd that the state controller had to admit that the system is so old, that it is [...]

An IT administrator took San Francisco’s new computer system hostage by placing passwords that denied employees access to the system. IT worker Terry Childs, a 43-year-old disgruntled worker, was arrested at his home in Pittsburgh, CA. and charged with four counts of computer tampering.
Childs created a password that granted him exclusive access to the system, [...]