by ray | Aug 1, 2015 | Microsoft Windows
Windows 10 is here! Well, it’s here for a lot of people, but many of us still cannot download it until Microsoft says it’s OK (unless you want to do it manually). You see, Microsoft plans to release Windows 10 in waves. That means even if your computer is...
by ray | Aug 1, 2015 | Microsoft Windows
Some apps are essential, and you use them every day. Everyone knows their names: Firefox, VLC, 7-Zip, and so on. However, there’s another class of app that gets less attention: the apps that are insanely useful to have in your back pocket on the rare occasions...
by ray | Jul 30, 2015 | Microsoft Windows
Last night, as promised, I installed Windows 10 on my own personal laptop. I left everything to chance. I didn’t back up my data. Hell, I set my Lenovo ThinkPad X240 on the floor of a pizza parlor in San Francisco—dongle and all—and let it install totally unattended....
by ray | May 29, 2015 | Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows
There are lots of Instructables out there on how to get music off of an iPod using the “view options” trick in Windows explorer. like this one! How to get your music back off your Ipod FREE! Unfortunately for those of us using Macs, Finder isn’t so...
by ray | Apr 24, 2015 | Microsoft Windows
I recently bought a new Linksys wireless router and after setting it up with basic WEP security, I tried to logon from my laptop and was successful! Not very exciting, eh? So then I tried to connect from my desktop computer that has a wireless USB adapter attached to...
by ray | Mar 23, 2015 | Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows
External drives allow you to quickly moves large files between computers. If you want yours to seamlessly work with both Macs and PCs, your external drive needs to use a filesystem that is supported by both platforms. The problem is that by default Windows uses NFTS,...
