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Choosing the Right PC
Digital Trends Guides - January 14, 2009
Your existing PC is so slow it can barely run Windows Solitaire. Video editing? Hardly. You’d be lucky if you can edit a Word document without it crashing.If this sounds familiar, don’t fret, as there’s some good news for computer u...
Let Your Computer ID the People in Your Photos
PC World Articles - January 5, 2009
Picasa, PicsMatch, and Windows Live Photo Gallery give you a peek at the future of face recognition.
Gift Ideas: PC and Laptop Accessories
Digital Trends Guides - December 18, 2008
From gadget freak to gearhead, uber-geek to office drone, we all have something in common: The lowly PC. We spend countless hours bashing away at our keyboards, surfing the Interwebs and generally interacting with our computer. Whether you're a m...
How Should I Prepare a New Computer?
PC World Articles - December 15, 2008
C17SSgt asked the Forum for the steps in getting a new PC ready for use.
How to Speed up Your PC
Digital Trends Guides - December 10, 2008
We've all been there – you need to get some work done, but your PC is dragging, sluggishly completing tasks, occasionally freezing, unable to handle several open apps at once. In fact, if it were going any slower, it'd be going backward...
How to Stream Audio & Video in your Home
Digital Trends Guides - November 25, 2008
Who could’ve guessed even a few years ago that our beloved PCs – machines once reserved strictly for productivity, web surfing and email – would one day be a hub for all things entertainment-related, including music, TV shows, featu...
Travel Tips: Extending Your Laptops Battery Life
Digital Trends Guides - November 18, 2008
It’s happened to many a traveler: You’re onboard a flight from, say, New York to Los Angeles, with plans to finish a stack of work along the way. After all, an airplane is often a great place to be productive, thanks to the absence of nag...
Create a Shutdown Shortcut
PC World Articles - November 14, 2008
James Strong wants a shortcut on his desktop that will shutdown his computer. I tell him how to make one.
Holiday Preview: Laptop and PC Buying Guide
Digital Trends Guides - November 14, 2008
With processor, graphics and storage technologies rushing ahead at breakneck speed, this year’s holiday shoppers will have more tech on tap for less money than they could have dreamed a year ago. Ultra-premium hardware that used to be reserved ...
The Best Free Software Programs
Digital Trends Guides - November 13, 2008
We’ve all heard the expressions “you get what you pay for” and “nothing in this world is free” before. But as any online-savvy computer user can tell you, if you spent some time in cyberspace you might beg to differ.Lite...
Create Greeting Cards and Great Photo Gifts
Digital Trends Guides - October 23, 2008
Remember in grade school when you glued macaroni to construction paper and called it gift gold? It was messy, but was warm, cuddly and showed how much you cared. Macaroni may not fly as an adult, but using your computer, you can put the same kind of ...
5 Ways to Protect Yourself and Your Computer
TechLore - September 29, 2008
The Internet can seem scary at times it is hard to know what you can do to protect yourself. Below are some tips that will help protect you and your computer.
Xbox 360 Media Server Setup
Digital Trends Guides - September 22, 2008
Got an Xbox 360? Use it to connect all the video, photos, and music on your home network and view them on your TV. In this step-by-step guide, we'll show you how to set up a UPnP sever on any Windows or Mac computer so the Xbox can access it, and the...
How To Combine MPG Video Files the Easy Way
TechLore - September 15, 2008
There comes times that you may want to combine a couple (or more) MPG video files into just one larger file. I had this case come up just recently. I needed to decompile a DVD that I wanted to watch using my thumb drive. Unfortunately, my thumb drive...
Get Started With Virtual Machines
PC World Articles - September 12, 2008
Virtualization is the safe, easy way to run any operating system on your PC or to run multiple OSs simultaneously. Here's how to add virtual computers to your system right now, using powerful free tools.