Windows
Superball Arcade Mania v3.1
Superball Arcade redefines the block-breaking arcade game with innovations we haven’t seen since Woz got duped by Jobs into creating the original Atari game for $350. Consider Breakout, pinball, and a shooting game all rolled into one. Knock out bricks by directing bouncing photon balls with your paddle while dodging falling cows and a storm [...]
3D Screensaver – The Earth Is Our Homeland
Many of us have had lifelong dreams of being an astronaut. The whole experience of viewing our Earth from space is one thing that has fascinated mankind for many years. What if I told you that you could view Earth from space for free? OK, it may just be a free screensaver, but you have [...]
Command-Line Reference A-Z
How many of you still use the command-line regularly? The truth is that it scares most users away. That blinking command prompt of doom can be daunting to someone who is clueless about how to use it. Some people were born and raised on the command-line and have a symbiotic relationship with it, while others [...]
Who Slowed Down The Internet?
Q: When I’m on the Internet during the day, everything moves along at a nice pace. However, when I get on the Internet at night and play some online games, I notice a pretty large drop in speed. I’m a rather new computer user, and was wondering if you could explain why this happens. A: [...]
Collapsing A Registry Hive
If you have ever poked around in the Windows registry, you will soon notice that you can get lost in keys and values. Sometimes to find what you are looking for, you really have to bore down, expanding key after key. Getting back to the top of the tree view can mean a lot of [...]
Funny Tactics To Fight Junk-Peddlers
Gnomie Melanie responded to Daniel Gray’s comments on Predictive Dialers by sending us this amusing little tidbit that’s been attributed to Andy Rooney. Even though we can’t find actual proof that these tips came from the outspoken 60 Minutes commentator, we can’t find actual proof that he didn’t, either. In any case, they’re still pretty [...]
Macro Scheduler
There was a time that one of the main purposes of a PC was simply to save you time. The theory was that a computer could do what you do, but do it quicker and more efficiently. We’ve all seen the Sci Fi films and series where this is the norm, but the modern day [...]
FILEhand Search
It doesn’t matter how carefully you name the files stored on your PC, and it doesn’t matter how carefully you file them. The fact is that we all spend a fair amount of time searching for them. And the more we use our PCs, the more of a problem it becomes. It used to strike [...]
Report: New Does Not Equal Upgrade
As Chris is on a well-needed birthday vacation, today’s guest report was sent our way by Gnomie bum2165: There is no reason to assume that just because a perfectly useful computer screams along with an OS less demanding of any seven-year-old corporate make and model that it needs to be ‘upgraded.’ There is still no [...]
Microsoft To Begin Checking For SPF With Inbound E-mail To Hotmail, MSN
Microsoft has announced that it will begin checking e-mail coming in to Hotmail, MSN, and Microsoft.com to determine whether the sending server has published a valid SPF record. The change is to occur on the first of October. It makes sense, given that they have merged their own Caller I.D. for E-mail with SPF. According [...]
