Why netbooks are great for college students

Dell Netbook

I decided to take a different approach and write an article on netbooks and why they’re great for college.  Netbooks, aka mini notebooks, are small and budget laptop computers.  They are great for web surfing, note taking, writing a paper, checking emails, and the list goes on.  A netbook sacrifices speed and power for portability [Read More...]

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View your Windows Mobile phone on your desktop – MyMobiler

mymobiler phone screen recording program

I recently purchased the HTC Touch Pro2 from T-Mobile (Rhodium) and I am currently in love with it.  I have been messing with it for about a week now, hence why I haven’t been doing much blog posting.  I was trying to find a program that can do screen recording on this phone to make tutorials.  Luckily, somebody on [Read More...]

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PC Deal of the Day 8-13-09

PC Deals of the Day 8 13 09

Lenovo has their new 12″ netbooks for only $349. In addition, they have their IdeaPad G550 laptop on sale for $449. You can buy this nice Vizio 32″ 1080p into a computer monitor for only $399. There are so many great deals today! [Read More...]

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Want an internet radio you can control? – Grooveshark

Grooveshark

Grooveshark is a breakthrough in streaming online music.  Offering way more freedom than its rival, Pandora, Grooveshark proves to be one of the best internet radio on world wide web.  From searching up your favorite song to listening to a stranger’s library, you can pretty much do it all with Grooveshark.  [Read More...]

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Troubleshoot the blue screen of death with BlueScreenView

BlueScreenView BSOD

Most of all have seen the blue screen of death (bsod) working on a PC at some point in our lives.  It’s a critial system error that forces your computer to shut down to prevent any further damage.  BlueScreenView is a free program that will pull up the last bsod for you to analyze and google the error.  This is an extremely helpful [Read More...]

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Simple and Secure Password Management – Password Safe

password safe

Tired of remembering and writing down random passwords?  Do you just want to remember ONE password?  Introducing Password Safe!  I love it how I sound like a TV infomercial.  Anyhow, Password Safe is a simple and very secure password management [Read More...]

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Burn CDs and DVDs free – CDBurnerXP

CDBurnerXP

CDBurnerXP allows anyone to burn kind of CD, DVD, even Blu-Ray for FREE.  The three most noticeable features are creating Data CDs and DVDs, burning audio CDs, and burning ISO files.  With more than [Read More...]

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Instant Messenging everywhere with Meebo

meebo

Chatting across different instant messenging (IM) services can be a real pain since you have to open up multiple programs/sites to do so.  There is an easier way to do this and it’s called Meebo.  This all-in-one instant messenging service will allow you to [Read More...]

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How to have a portrait and landscape format in a single 2007 Word document

How to have a portrait and landscape format in a single 2007 Word document

My girlfriend, who is also computer savvy, came to me for help on formatting her Word document.  She wanted only certain pages of the document to be in landscape orientation and the rest portrait.  You can’t do this unless you create page breaks.  I researched and found a website [Read More...]

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New Screenshots of Mozilla Firefox 4

mozilla firefox 4 tabs on top

Mashable has screen shots of the upcoming Mozilla Firefox 4 internet browser.  So far, the main new features of Firefox is the tab locations and the overall simplified look and feel.  With the tabs on top, it looks almost exactly like it’s other internet [Read More...]

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