Taskbar previews, the thumbnails of a running application that pop-up as your mouse over the application window in the task bar, aren’t new to Windows 7 – they were introduced in Vista actually – but their behavior have changed slightly. In Windows 7, task bar applications are grouped together if more than one iteration of [...]
Having grown up with DOS and Unix-based environments, I’m rather comfortable with the command line – to the point I often find it much faster to accomplish many tasks in than a traditional graphical interface. No matter my allegiance to the command line, I’m not stubborn enough to remain committed to the method when something [...]
Information wants to be free and one of the most horrendous atrocities on the Internet are sites that restrict their content members-only. Heavy surfers have quite likely come across a search result, clicked the link to visit the website, only to be hit face-first with some variance of denial. At best, you are able to [...]
One of the advantages of keeping your email in the cloud – outside of the obvious ability of accessibility basically anywhere you have access to a computer – is the notion of security and privacy. Accessing your Gmail requires a username and password, that’s pretty obvious. But what if you have your Gmail, or any [...]
Those of us who have had to support friends or family members with their computing problems from afar can sympathize with one another. It’s generally a painful and frustrating experience. To support them, we rely on them to relay accurately what is going on when they do situation x or click doo-hickey y. At the [...]