Category Technology

“Canadian” Keyboard

I recently purchased an Acer Timeline 1410 11.6″ laptop for a big trip; it was a sweet deal from Staples and met all my criteria.  I’ll get a review up shortly.  When I got home I saw it had one…

Windows 7 Remote Desktop tricks

Via Download Squad and Into Windows I came across a user modification that does two wonderful things: enables Remote Desktop for all Windows 7 versions and allows more than one Remote Desktop connection to any Windows PC. For those users…

CDCheck

While trying to de-clutter my office I can across some software that wasn’t in use anymore.  I decided to gather it together and liquidate on eBay.  All was fine except for two discs that had seen some action and were…

Disk Space Fan

Eventually every PC user comes to the point when they try to save something on their PC and there isn’t enough space.  We all react the same way: what’s filled my hard drive?  It seemed for a while gargantuan hard…

Sleep Mode and Hardware Changes

I’m in the process of upgrading my PC.  After swapping out a Gigabyte [intlink id=”1187″ type=”post”]GA-P55M-UD2[/intlink] for a P55A-UD3P motherboard I left everything else as is and ran the system for a few days.  All components were working properly so…

Icon Finder

I was browsing a forum and noticed a mention of an icon site I had never heard of: Icon Finder.  I was looking to add nice RSS and Twitter icons since even though eBabble offers these feeds there are few…

Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2

I’ve upgraded my main PC and wanted a good inexpensive socket 1156 motherboard for overclocking an Intel i5-75o processor.  Every possible site and magazine pointed to one motherboard: the Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2.  It really is a great motherboard with everything most…

AVG Rescue CD

AVG produces a great anti-virus product and makes a free version available; it’s highly recommended.  Recently they released AVG Rescue CD and it’s just as it sounds: a bootable CD with AVG on it, ready to fix those virus issues…

Corsair H50 CPU Cooler

I finally succumbed to tech lust and upgraded my main computer.  It’s been over three years and was still doing everything I needed but I wanted more.  With the great overclocking available with the Intel i5 and i7 series processors I needed…