by Richard W | Dec 17, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Windows
The Folks behind the most popular open source media player called VideoLAN or VLC for short has just released version 2.0.5 which fixes many bugs and some regressions of the 2.0.x branch of VLC. This update also introduces many important fixes to MKV, SWF, AIFF, RTSP,...
by Richard W | Dec 14, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Windows
By now you probably already know that Bing is Microsoft Search Engine and comes with Windows 8 as the default search engine for Internet Explorer. It’s not bad, and really have some cool features, like Facebook integration and cool images as backgrounds that are not...
by Richard W | Dec 14, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Windows
We recently showed you how to change the time zones in Windows 8 PCs. If you want to view that post then please click here. Most modern computers and devices today are designed to automatically acquire their correct date and time information from Internet Time...
by Richard W | Dec 13, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Web
Google Drive team just released an extension for Google Chrome that lets you save web content directly into Google Drive through a browser action without leaving your current page. You can save images, HTML5 audio and video, and the entire web page by right-clicking...
by Richard W | Dec 13, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Web, Windows
I am a big Google Chrome user for almost as long as it’s been released. I was once in the camp of Internet Explorer before Firefox. When Firefox was released, I switched and never looked back to IE except in our corporate environment where IE is still king. For a...
by Richard W | Dec 12, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Linux
Here’s a brief tutorial that shows you how to change your username or user id in Ubuntu. We’ve shown you this before but we found a different way to do it and it’s easy. This method uses Ubuntu Recovery Mode to accomplish the same goal. Using the Recovery Mode, one...
by Richard W | Dec 11, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Web
Here’s a quick new for WordPress users; version 3.5 codenamed Elvin has just been released. You can now download and install or upgrade your current websites to the latest version. And before I forget, I want to personally extend my thanks and appreciation to the...
by Richard W | Dec 11, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Windows
One nice thing about Windows 8 is that you can now refresh or reset your PC to the default settings without actually affecting your files and documents, although some programs you installed from other sources will be lost. This can come in handy if you changed some...
by Richard W | Dec 9, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Security, Windows
If you want to sync your files across multiple devices, including Windows 8, 7, Vista, Mac and Android devices, you may want to install Microsoft SkyDrive application. This brief tutorial is going to show you how to install it in Windows 8, 7 or Vista. For those who...
by Richard W | Dec 9, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Windows
With the release of Windows 8 and the lost of the classic Start Menu, many companies and developers have stepped in to help you bring back that old classic Start Menu that’s currently in previous versions of Windows, like Windows 7, Vista and XP. One such is company...
