Brandon Watts

Ever since Apple’s hardware made the jump to Intel processors, there’s been an active community involvement in getting the Intel version of OS X to run on the standard personal computers that the majority of users have. Let’s face it, Apple’s hardware is nice and shiny, but despite the price drops, it’s still more expensive [...]

I think we’ve all worn ourselves out with talking about Vista. You might think that it’s now time for all of us to take break from talking about Windows and focus on items of higher and more relevant importance, but sure enough, just as one thing wears out, another takes its place. Whether good or [...]

Do you enjoy touching your computers? That may sound weird and creepy, but I’m not talking about touching your computers in general. Instead, I’m referring to the way in which you interact with them. For many of us, the keyboard and mouse are still our primary methods of interacting with computers, and they work just [...]

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to realize that there is power in numbers. Usually, when people only rely on themselves, they miss out on a vast community of knowledge that is just waiting to be explored. How many times have you told yourself, “You know, I wish I would have asked for [...]

I can usually be found documenting the latest and greatest Web sites in our Windows Fanatics channel, but I wanted to take some time out to focus on something that I know is going to be beneficial to the IT Professionals crowd.

One of the things software users absolutely hate to do is read boring documentation. Most of the time this information leaves you even more confused than you were in the first place. Humans usually learn better when they’re given visual aids to work with. We’ve all seen screenshots included in demos and documentation, but you [...]

As a Windows administrator, you may be required to write targeted scripts for any number of the computers that you oversee. If you’re familiar with most of the general purpose scripting tools out there, you’ll notice that the majority of them just don’t offer what you want. Who wants to use complicated and bloated software [...]