OOoooooo (said in a spooky way) What are the two words Bill Gates is afraid of?
on Nov 15, 2009Asks the Advertisement that wants you to subscribe to their newsletter. The answer to that question is cloud computing. Now whether or not Bill is afraid is not of any concern to me, who cares. It's not like Bill is not going to be a billionaire tomo...

How to protect your computer from Malware for free
on Nov 2, 2009Yes, that’s right you don’t have to spend any money at all to protect your computer from viruses, malware, Trojans, and other assorted bad guys. Here is how:Linux:First off if you’re running the Linux OS of any kind then you don’t need any vi...

Xubuntu. Give life back to that old computer
on Oct 28, 2009I have 4 computers in my house, one in the kitchen that the kids use, a laptop in the living room, one in my bedroom, and one out in the garage. They are all networked together using a wireless network. None of these computers are particularly new,...

My hard drive is full! How do I free up space?
on Oct 24, 2009What is hogging up my hard drive space? Is a question you may be asking yourself right now.  My laptop is a little old with only 40 GB of hard drive space, but that may seem gargantuan if you have even an older computer with under 1 GB of space.

Put all of your favorite applications on your flash drive with a menu
on Oct 21, 2009I came across this amazing site yesterday called LiberKey. What LiberKey does is provide sets of free software that can be installed on your Flash drive. LiberKey comes with a menu, select the program you want and run it right off of your flash driv...

Meet people from all over the world...then kill them. And it's free!
on Oct 19, 2009No I'm not advocating mass murder, what I'm talking about is the long running free multiplayer space combat game Continuum. What is Continuum you ask? Did you ever play asteroids? Well this is Asteroids on steroids. You pick a ship, move around on a...

Do you really need to spend a load of cash to create web content?? Nope.
on Oct 19, 2009Do you need to build a Web site? Or do you need to create a nice ad for Craigslist and don't want to have to code the whole thing out? Well sometimes I do, and I refuse to fork over any cash to Microsoft or Adobe for some bloated overpriced piece of...

What is a ZIP file and why should you care about them.
on Oct 18, 2009If you are going to pursue finding free software on the web, then you are going to want to download some of the software you find onto your own computer's hard drive. Some files are executable and usually look something like this: myprogram.exe. When...

Free PDF creation and reading tools
on Oct 17, 2009I think most people are familiar with PDF files. Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange. A PDF has all of the formatting intact with text and pictures, and it can be read by a PDF reader...

My computer is sooooooo sloooooooooow
on Oct 16, 2009The slow computer has to be the most common thing I hear when people are having problems with their computers. Your computer needs to have some regular maintenance done to it to keep it running properly. If you do these things your computer will be v...