Watching streaming video on the internet has become almost a national pass time these days. Sites like YouTube have made watching things like music videos, reviews and how-to guides a possibility.
Tons of other sites have streaming video too, but the problem with all of them is that they don’t make it very easy at all to download the videos on to your computer so that you can watch them later. Read more
Once in a while it may be necassary for you to change the drive letter of one or more of your hard disks.
This may be down to a problem with an application, having multiple hard disks, or just personal preference.
Whatever the reason, it’s quite easy to achieve. Read more
Getting the right software for your Windows PC doesn’t have to be expensive. For every piece of premium software there’s probably a free version that does more or less the same job.
This list is a quick reference guide to the best of the free applications available for Windows machines, broken down by category. Read more
There are plenty of tools available that will allow you to use your iPad as a keyboard and mouse for your PC or Mac, but not so many that will allow you to view your PC’s screen on your iPad.
Enter; Splashtop. A full Windows and Mac remote control suite for your iPad. Read more
If you’re looking to get into web design then the easiest thing to do is to setup a web server on your home PC.
The problem is, with so many different tools and packages available to you, it can be a bit of a nightmare getting everything set up so that the different components talk to one another. Read more
One of the coolest things about Mac OS X is the funky dock bar present at the bottom of the screen. It’s a great tool for accessing the programs and locations that you access every day. It can also be hidden to free up desk space or animated if you like your desktop to have a bit of a cool look about it.
Luckily, Windows users need not feel put out by this, as you can implement a very similar idea quickly and easily using free software.
RocketDock is a free tool for implementing an OS X style dock on Windows operating systems. So far, it’s only available for 32bit versions of Windows, but it will run on XP, Vista and Windows 7.
To get your hands on RocketDock, just download the latest version here and install it on your Windows PC.
In the video below I give you a quick guide to setting the software up in minutes and getting the look just right.
These days more and more people are becoming interested in using Linux on their home PC’s, the problem is that most people have a huge library of files and programs that only run on Windows. It would be difficult and expensive to get rid of Windows altogether, and besides; Linux isn’t for everyone, what if you don’t like it?
The solution is to install Linux alongside your existing Windows operating system, that way you get all the advantages of trying Linux on your home machine whilst maintaining your existing Windows OS as well.
In the video below I’ll take you through installing a Linux operating system alongside your existing Windows installation.
In this example I use a Windows XP installation and the latest version of Ubuntu Linux, but this approach should also work fine with later versions of Windows as well as most other Linux installations.
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