While it is pretty easy to copy music onto an iPod or iPhone, Apple restricts its customers from downloading music from an iPod/iPhone to a PC. Once the files are on the device, they are stuck—unless you decode the Apple file structure and rename all the garbled files, which is a great amount of work. Instead, a…

Many computer users rely on the Windows Update tool to keep hardware drivers current. Unfortunately, Microsoft does not monitor each and every piece of hardware on our systems as we would like to believe.

Downloading individual drivers for hardware components can take more time than many of us are willing to invest. A site called Ma-Config.com can scan your system…

ATI and NVIDIA are locked in a war for top place in the graphics card  market. AMD’s relatively recent acquisition of ATI has given the company a slight edge over its competition.

As part of the marketing process, both companies not only innovate newer and more powerful graphics chips, they also struggle to provide an easy experience for the consumer…

If you want to monitor your internet bandwidth usage without the complicated settings and the extra tools you normally don’t need, the ShaPlus Bandwidth Meter is ideal for you.

It does what it does in a most straightforward way — monitor your current, daily, and monthly internet bandwidth usage. The program can also compile all monthly statistics (grouped according to…

One of the primary reasons of work-related stress is sitting in-front of the computer for several hours without taking a break. This causes not only eye strain, but also dry eye, teary eye, blurred vision, and worse- glaucoma.

It can also give you headaches, physical exhaustion, dizziness, and shoulder and neck pains. You can remedy this by resting for several…

Digital pictures have a way of multiplying on our hard drives over time. We start with a few photos from our cell phones, and before we know it, we have 100+ GB of digital photos. In all those photos, there are bound to be duplicates, but finding them is a procrastination-inspiring fete.

Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder is a software program…

The World Wide Web gave us Google and Facebook. It capped ignorance and made the world smaller. It significantly changed how we lived in the 21^st century. The Internet is one of humankind’s most memorable and greatest inventions of all time. However, along with it, are some not so nice things.

These include the intrusion of the user’s privacy,…

Urban dwellers have an advantage over their rural counterparts when it comes to setting up a home wireless network. With smaller homes and apartments in the urban environment, the WiFi signal does not need to travel far.

An entire urban home (of standard size—we have seen very large urban homes, too) can have WiFi connection with a single,…

Most modern computer screens are HD compatible, yet most downloaded YouTube videos are far from HD ready. Portable devices like the iPad and iPhone 4 even have HD screens, but file compatibility keeps us from realizing their full potential, since most Web videos download in mediocre quality FLV format.

A site called Keep-Tube.com downloads YouTube…

Running too many programs and opening several large files all at once are a heavy burden on your computers memory. When memory usage reaches its critical level, most programs crash or slow down significantly, including Windows Explorer.

The worst thing that could happen when your RAM can’t take it anymore is overall system failure and hardware malfunction. Even though it’s…