Another reader asks: I started up my computer this morning and all of my icons were gone! What could have happened? How [...]
If you are bored of the default Windows Calculator, it is time to try out SpeedCrunch. It is a powerful desktop Calculator which is much easier to use and also has a lot of features.Unlike other calculators, you can just type the expression that you want to calculate and press enter. The answer will be [...]
For serious color identification, it is important that we understand the RGB (red, green and blue) color signature. The idea of using RGB values to identify colors is taken from the color theory that colors are a combination of the three primary colors (red, green, and blue).
Linux looks increasingly like a technically viable option as an operating system for PCs, but it’s still one that’s rarely considered seriously in business environments. That’s despite wide use of the open-source system in many companies’ IT infrastructures: Research firm IDC says Linux has 14% of the $50.9 billion market for server operating systems and [...]
How much do you depend on certain icons on your desktop? I’m talking about the icons from the likes of My Computer, My Documents, My Network Places [...]
Canonical has announced it will be developing a version of its Ubuntu Linux desktop operating system specifically for ARM’s Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 processor architectures. ARM-based processors have traditionally been used in small devices such as mobile phones, but it emerged in October that ARM’s technology would soon be used in netbooks, the new breed of [...]
Well, you can panel them! Okay, so let me get this straight. You have a big list of Favorites saved to your computer, but every time you want to view one, [...]
Do you like to use your own pictures for your computer’s desktop wallpaper? You know, as long as you have the picture saved on your computer, you can right [...]
Can’t get enough of all the free remote desktop sharing applications out there these days? If you want a simple desktop sharing program, you now have several choices, like in my previous post I linked to above.
One of the cool features in Linux operating systems is the ability to work with separate applications on multiple desktops. This allows users to have different applications open on separate desktop screens to avoid excess clutter while multi-tasking. Apple’s OSX also added a similar feature in Leopard with Spaces.
