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Today is what’s known in the United States as Black Friday. It is not a holiday but rather the mark of the beginning of the holiday shopping season, and is widely believed to be the biggest shopping day of the year. ...

If you like to have granular control over all aspects of your system graphics, a tool you need to look at is PowerStrip. This tool works with just about any graphics card out there and can typically provide many more options than the manufacturer’s control panel. ...

Today marks the day that the United States celebrates the holiday known as Thanksgiving, where we (are supposed to) give thanks for what we have. But you don’t have to celebrate Thanksgiving to give thanks for certain things we have in tech. ...

If you currently use Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, LiveJournal, Xanga, WordPress or TypePad as a place where you post blog articles, all of them have the ability to post via a WYSIWYG editor within the service...

For those of you who like to try new security and maintenance utilities, a suite you might want to take a look at is Glary Utilities. Glary Utilities is a freeware with registry and disk cleaning, privacy protection, performance accelerator and amazing multifunctional tools...

(Note: If you spot deals today or tomorrow before Friday hits, post a comment) These are direct links. No coupon codes or any of that b.s. to deal with...

As time goes on, there are more and more people that have absolutely no clue how to use the Command Prompt in Windows...

Out of the box, the Firefox add bookmark interface is very simple/limited (version 3.5 at least). As such, if you have a detailed folder breakdown you have to go through the drop list menu to get the interface where you can organize the new addition...

First off, I am not a gamer. When I do play a game, I prefer classic arcade style games or turn based strategy games. That said, if the games you like to play are not hardware intensive then using a netbook as a gaming machine might be an option...

If you have several machines you want to upgrade to Windows 7, such as your desktop, laptop, family computer, etc., rather than purchasing individual Windows 7 licenses for each, take a look at the Windows 7 Family Pack...

For a long while, I would never use a magnetic screwdriver when working on a computer. I had an experience where a motherboard was working prior to the ‘repair’ and not working after. I ...

You areprobably very familiar with the hard drive activity LED that seems to constantly be blinking on either your desktop or laptop case. As a better alternative to this simple indicator, FloatLED puts this information directly on your desktop...

To note up front: This is for Windows Live Movie Maker and not the older Windows Movie Maker. WLMM is something which is a separate download in the Windows Live suite of applications. It does not come bundled with Windows 7 but can be added in easily...

Sometimes, particularly with plain text files, you want to save a file as a certain extension. For example, you might want to save a text file with an INI or an XYZ extension...