Tips

For lack of finding helpful information elsewhere, Geeks! blogger Chronidus wrote up a pretty handy guide to installing Windows XP using a USB flash drive, so we figured we’d share it with you here. Enjoy!
Removable flash memory sticks are pretty much one of the most handy little pieces of technology to come along in the [...]

Gnomie Time2Rock from our chat room writes:
Hey Chris,
I love your videos. Here are some suggestions, based on my personal experience, why some people shouldn’t rush out to grab Vista. I’m really into the latest and greatest technology and got Vista without doing my homework. I hope some of these are helpful.
Thanks!

Your USB/FireWire devices might stop [...]

Hey Chris!
This is David Leonard, and I wanted to send you another top 5. This one is listing the top 5 reasons to buy custom over pre-built computers.

It Costs Less – Yes, custom machines can cost less if you are shopping at the right places. You can usually go look up the specs of a [...]

Xen from the chat room here. Just thought I should give the community my top five list for computer troubleshooting!

Your computer isn’t turning on? “Oh, no!” You think, “I’d better get a new one!” STOP right there. Before you get too frustrated, be sure you have checked that the power cord is actually plugged into [...]

Hey Chris! This Is Fabiocrow07770 from the chat room. I decided to make a top five list on motherboards because, in building a computer, it’s the hardest component to pick. It’s pretty much the nervous system of the PC, so proper selection is crucial to ensure your new computer performs as well or better than [...]

Watermarks can do more than just add a faint logo on a background. It won’t serve as tamper protection because it simply acts like a lighter graphic in your presentation. It has no fancy data behind it to protect the presentation’s data.
For example, you give a presentation about publishing. You could weave the history of [...]

Gnomie [LTC]Tribe from our chat room writes:
After watching your video I thought to myself “what do geeks want from a Web browser?” Then a millisecond later I thought: “Well I’m a geek, what do I want from a Web browser?”
The first thing that popped into my head was addons! So I thought, as I am [...]

Gnomie geek43 from our chat room writes:
Hey, Chris!
My computer recently experienced a sudden overheating; since this was the first time it’s happened to me, I was really scared. I was in my room when my processors started going nuts and they wouldn’t stop — neither would the fans. So I got a small fan [...]

Gnomie crazy_spurill from our chat room writes:
I have an old Xbox that I don’t use anymore because of the Xbox 360. I’ve been given some ideas of what to do with it because it’s just collecting dust in my room. So I have made a list of the top 5 things that I think you [...]

Gnomie John Trull writes:
These are some short tips shared with me and a class of students about four years ago by a substitute teacher. He has now gone on to become one of the most known professors in the state of NC.

Whenever someone assigns you a textbook, read the glossary. Always. You will find [...]