Everyone loves icons. Whether you are a developer looking for ways to ‘beautify’ your user interface or you are putting together a presentation, attractive icons make a good impression.
In the past, I have pointed out the excellent collections from FamFamFam which is free for both private and commericial use. So on that note here are [...]

Lively is this.. thing.. by Google where it was some kind of mashup/3D/cartoony (literally) way of using social networking. Or was it just chatting? Or was it a game? Nobody quite knows for sure, however..
..it sucked and always did from day one. Second Life was there first, it didn’t need to be recreated and that’s [...]

You may have a disc, be it music or data, that is scratched and will not read in your optical disc drive no matter what you do to it. Can it be saved?
Possibly. There are a few things you can try to save that disc.
Hardware method: It could be just the drive you’re using
If [...]

Over the years I have noticed people love to just drop everything onto their desktop. Be it shortcuts, pictures or files they are actively working on, the desktop is the common gathering place. While this may work for helping you get your work done it also increases the amount of time your computer takes to [...]

Situation: You use an app that requires Adobe AIR but decide you don’t want it anymore and uninstall it. The app was easily removed by going to Add/Remove Programs, but AIR is still installed and there appears to be no way to uninstall it.
Update: The latest version of AIR does have an Add/Remove entry after [...]

It is the end of an era. PC Magazine was founded in 1982. It brought the then brand new world of PC enthusiasm to the masses. A lot of computer users subscribed to the magazine, including myself. I am still a print subscriber to the magazine and enjoy it.
Well, all good things come to [...]

If you do not already have a utility to monitor your system’s vital statistics (or are just looking for another one), then a utility you might want to check out is CoolMon.
CoolMon is a free utility that can monitor (among other things):

Processor usage
Number of active threads
Used/Free/Total Memory
Used/Free/Total page file
Used/Free/Total disk space
Network read and write speed

Overall, [...]

I discovered this on a goof. On my laptop I had installed the latest version of WinAMP to listen to MP3s and so on and it had associated itself with FLV extensions (I just did a standard install that auto-associates instead of a custom which it why it happened).
I downloaded a few FLVs as backups [...]

The Iphone is just cool. Calling it a phone is almost a disservice because what it really is is a full mobile computing platform. And in that vein, it can also be a mobile GAMING platform.
Now, I’m not a big gamer (my regular readers know that). But, I did spend a little time playing around [...]

Some people are confused (or just have the wrong idea) about what a computer server actually is.
The technical definition is that a server is a computer dedicated to providing a specific service or services.
Concerning what you would use in the home, the most common example is a file server, i.e. a computer where its sole [...]

I am always looking for ways to make my computer quieter, cooler and consume less energy (usually they are all one in the same). On that note, here is an interesting walkthrough on how to build your own hard drive silencing enclosure.
The idea is quite simple: sandwich a hard drive between two layers of gel [...]