Windows
Tips for Buying Gifts for Geeks
You’ve already reviewed my gift guide, but I wanted to give y’all a little more guidance before you continued to do any more holiday shopping. If you’re a geek, you’ll completely understand where I’m coming from – and if you’re not a geek, then there are a few things you should know about gifts for [...]
Nuvvo
I always enjoy learning something new. In fact, thanks to the Internet, I’m able to learn something new every few seconds. While I try to remain a student in many respects, I also like to take up the position of a teacher, and in my work, I’m routinely called upon to help people figure out [...]
Carbonite To The Rescue!
Late Saturday night my home PC started acting up, and when I rebooted, neither Zone Alarm Pro nor NOD32 would run. Attempting to run either just put the PC into a loop that required a reboot. Starting in safe mode without either security program (and the DSL modem unplugged) resulted in things working just fine [...]
The Red Wine Blood Pressure Experiment
Call me the intrepid reporter, but I’ve become absolutely fascinated by the whole red wine-blood pressure connection. So fascinated that I’ve devised a little experiment, in real time. I’m going to take my blood pressure before and after imbibing a couple of glasses of red wine tonight, and post photos of the blood pressure monitor, [...]
Use Stationery In Your Windows Mail Messages (Vista)
If you use Windows Mail to communicate with family and friends, you can use stationery to liven up your messages. When you add stationery to a message, a fancy background is placed behind the actual message. I personally feel that it is more of a fun thing to do and would generally not consider using [...]
Create Message Rules In Windows Mail (Vista)
Rules are very useful for managing high volumes of messages. For example, instead of having them all end up in your Inbox, you can create rules that will sort incoming messages and place them in different folders. You can create rules in Windows Mail (included with Vista), using the steps outlined below. Open Vista. Click [...]
A Geek's Wish List
You might have seen my faux holiday wish list in the recently-published issue of CPU Magazine: (1) World peace; (2) True instant messaging platform interoperability; (3) The death penalty for spammers and spyware vendors; (4) An end to DRM; (5) Windows Vista Visual Service Pack 1; (6) OS X on non-Apple hardware; (7) A mobile [...]
3D Christmas Set 2
This set contains three 3D Christmas screensavers: 3D Magic Christmas Toy Shop, 3D Christmas Puppies and Kittens, and 3D Interactive Holiday Candles. The download link to 3D Magic Christmas Toy Shop is delivered immediately and the other two are sent in a follow-up email within a few hours. For more information or to try other [...]
ExtractNow v4.33
Why wear out your clicking finger extracting files one by one when you can extract them all at once? ExtractNow does a fine job of bundling compressed files and extracting their contents in one fell swoop. ExtractNow has a clean, well-designed, and easy-to-use interface. [1.59M] [Win2k/XP] [FREE] [Nathan Moinvaziri] [tags]ExtractNow, file organization, file extract, compress, [...]
Zamzar
Without a doubt, there’s going to be a time when you’ll need to convert at least one file from one format into another, and while that may sound relatively easy, finding the correct software to properly execute the task can be a challenge. I’ve found myself having to download various software titles in order to [...]
