LifeHacker discusses the use of Virtual Machines, and how to setup VirtualBox to run Windows XP. Lifehacker – The Beginner’s Guide to Creating Virtual Machines with VirtualBox – Virtual Machine: ” Virtual machines can seem juuuuust a bit too geeky for most otherwise computer-friendly people. That’s sad, because it’s an easy, free way to try […]
Well, I always have to look this up, since I do it so rarely… But I had a few questions come in regarding converting a FAT32 disk to NTFS, on a Windows XP system… Well, please remember, your mileage may vary, and you assume complete responsibility for this… But the easy answer is to use […]
On of my great complaints about the Aluminum series iMacs, is simply that nothing is a customer replaceable part. Â The white iMac’s that preceeded the aluminum (G5 & X86) were fantastic, with just about every component from the motherboard to the DVD drive, were completely customer replaceable. Â Apple even has instructions online for customers to […]
EASEUS Creates and Manages Hard Drive Partitions for Free Windows only: EASEUS Partition Manager is a hard drive partition utility that bills itself as a free alternative to the popular commercial product, PartitionMagic. EASEUS can resize and move partitions without losing data already on them (unlike many other partitioning tools which erase the data on […]
Ever run into an issue where you weren’t sure that the Windows driver you just downloaded was right? Try this. Back up your current drivers, before you upgrade… Windows only: Backup utility Double Driver lists all the hardware drivers installed on your system and creates backups of both the actual drivers and lists of the […]
Gosh darn it… Customer Service is one of the most important things for businesses… It doesn’t mean the customer is always right, but it does mean that you try to solve the customers issues… Quite a few months ago, I was going around in circles with customer support representatives for a certain tax company, and […]
Isn’t this an interesting idea, take a thumb disc version of linux, add an video playing application, and use it for presentations… Life Hacker has some more details, but in summary: MoviX2 puts a tiny Linux system on a disc or thumb drive that boots up and plays almost any video file you burn it […]
Well, Charles Babbage invented the first mechanical computer… It wasn’t actually constructed into 1991, but still the plans were from 1871… Punch cards are from 1725 (Basile Bouchon & Jean-Baptiste Falcon), but here’s proof of a thumb drive from that era… Okay, maybe proof is too strong of a word, but still… It’s a neat […]